i hope we get a lb with our 2nd

kindle
norwood
spikes
mclain


imagine ILB with our first 2nd and Norwood with our second 2nd, berry or mays in the first....

There's your answer.

Lance Long shouldn't keep this franchise from drafting a WR if he's the BPA.

Gilyard is a dual-threat because he can be a #2 opposite Bowe....and he can also return kicks/punts. Same thing goes for Tate.

Chambers isn't getting any younger and he really isn't going to be a factor for this team for the future. We need to come out of the first three rounds with playmakers and immediate starters.....especially at the OLB position and safety position.

It'd be nice but I don't see Mclain or Spikes making it out of the 1st round.

IIRC, there should be 3 or 4 real stud WR able to come out in 2011.

could be, i was basing it on GBN's current top 100 ranking...I think spikes will slip with some injury concerns....

Not only that, but I would much, much rather take the top Guard or Center off the board than take a second-tier ILB prospect. Regardless of how far one of them falls.

Second-tier? What the **** are you smoking?

i'd take McClain over any interior lineman at that point, he is a stud

I usually agree that you take BPA around rounds 2 and 3. But I'll agree with Coogs on this one. Unless you have a lights out prospect that is hands down better than anyone on the board, I don't think you can justify taking a receiver here. The Chiefs can skate by with their current receiver corps and I frankly think the position is pretty overrated unless you have a complete freak playing there.

From a positional value standpoint, in the 2nd round, we're now comparing WRs who weren't considered good enough for the first round to Guards/Centers/RBs who are closer to the top of their class.

I'd agree with the exception of Kris O'Dowd.

He might be. It's just that in a 3-4, I don't place very much value at all in ILBs. For as below average as Mays and Demorrio Williams are, I feel like you could build around them in the short-term with vast improvements at both Safety positions and Nose Tackle. And given that ILBs in a 3-4 tend to be role positions instead of playmaker positions, I think it's also quite possible to upgrade that position significantly later in the draft.

i'm honestly not that familiar with OL, i'm just a fanboy for McClain and Norwood...

we could easily, and should imo, get 3 defensive starters with our first 3 picks....

i hear you, but i think our lbs and safety's are bigger problem than NT right now...just imo

and i think McClain is a total monster, but i also understand we need a olb pass rusher more....

I think the NT is one of the bigger problems on this defense. Our OLBs aren't doing terrible with the rush, but because Edwards isn't getting any push, the QB has a huge pocket to dodge any kind of pressure. Watch how many times QBs escape pressure. And if the NT does his job, the LBs don't have to worry about getting absorbed in blocks.

I think the Safety is definitely an urgency position. But the NT will make the LBs a LOT better. But granted, I don't know much about McClain and in the 2nd round, if a player is easily the BPA, then you don't pass on him.