There isn’t a better replacement for Neimann than this kid. Not saying he is Kuechly but he’s more athletic than him which is crazy.

Did I mention the kid scored a 34 on the wonderlic? He’s gonna be on the field A LOT. Like he should have no problem.

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34 ****ING REPS ON THE BENCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF???

can we play him at TE?

Possibly, although it's not just KC that's running mostly nickel and dime sets.

I will say this-Chenal at SAM with Gay at Will is faster and quicker than Sorensen as S3 with Niemann at Will. So your base 4-3 functions better as a pass defense with him in there than your previous 3 safety nickel.

However-if they do their usual 3 S set, you're also bigger, faster, and more athletic with Cook, Reid, and Thornhill.

OR if they want to do a traditional nickel with 3 corners, you're in good shape with Sneed, Fenton, and Mcduffie.

AND Chenal had 8 sacks last season; so there are pass rush skills there. No reason why he couldn't be part of the EDGE rotation on obvious passing downs if you wanted to, although I would expect he'd be most effective with a running start from an off-ball LB spot.

But with that physicality and elite athleticism, I wouldn't be surprised if he could be effective as part of the EDGE rotation.

I'll bet Andy puts a FB package in for him in goal line.

:D

You know he will.

The play at 6:25 where he split the two blockers to make the tackle was impressive

There is an absolutely insane amount of speed on this defense now.

Gay 4.51
Bolton 4.59
Chenal 4.53
Sneed 4.37
McDuffie 4.44
Thornhill 4.42
Reid 4.40

We need to add a truly athletic DE who isn't a midget but you love that back seven right now.

That allows you to get away with having a 4.5 guy like Fenton on the field.

Don't forget we still have Deon Bush and Jermaine Carter JR from FA. We have a lot of depth to play with.

We just replaced UDFA Ben Niemann with a Big Ten LBer of the Year in our flex LB role.

Think about the tackling at the second and third levels now. Who's the worst tackler? Thornhill?

Major attitude adjustment on defense. Love it.

It's enough to make GAZ come back.

Chad Reuter: Kansas City Chiefs: A on Day 1; A+ on Day 2

The only team that Reuter gave an A+ on Day 2 was the Chiefs, who acquired Western Michigan wide receiver Skyy Moore, Cincinnati safety Bryan Cook and Wisconsin linebacker Leo Chenal, addressing some of their key needs.

Nice! This is the only pick I really liked with what was available on the board. But I'll give the front office the benefit of the doubt on our others. Pumped for the season!

Totally agree and I think this is the only scenario where I might look back and wonder if the draft was as good as it felt at the time. Right now, I'm pretty enthusiastic about the picks, even notwithstanding I'd have taken T Jones at the Cook pick and probably not gone LB at this point.

There are plenty of AFC teams that WANT to pass a LOT, including in the West. Worst scenario is we've fixed a problem that wasn't as great as imagined. The best scenario is we say "You want to be pass happy with Herbert and Burrow, cool, but they're getting far less time and your best targets aren't being locked down by a UDFA"

D gonna be pretty nice

Never seen him play

Enagbare, perhaps.

Love this pick! Had him to us going at number 94 in one of my mocks where I had done some trading around.

This ain’t your grandfather’s Chief’s defense anymore boys, we are going to be bringing the lumber.

We allowed 4.8 Y/A on the ground last year

Only 1 defense was worse

Not seeing a big hitter in those clips. At least not vis a vis nfl dudes

He looks like the kind of hitter that stops everyone but also doesn't give himself concussions which is just fine

Yep, we were poop pretty much everywhere on D, but I think you can (and we almost did) get away with being poor against the run. If you can't defend the pass and get after the QB, that's worse.

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Their pass defense should be better this year in the back 7. Also Spags is going to be sending guys like Chenal and Cook on blitzes to help get after the QB

We were never going to get an elite front 4 with the way the offseason worked out. But we can get a hard as nails back 7 that covers

I think with our versatile D picks so far we will be able to run both 4/3 or 3/4 when needed. And to your question about holding up against the pass I think our disruption will finally take care of that.

That's what I said earlier, we may use him more on the edge. Pretty excited for this pick.

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Hopefully without the roids and emitting saliva.;)

This guy is soooooooo old school with his play and I absolutely love this pick. The 2nd coming of Willie Lanier has finally come because this guy is a true thumper.:drool:

When you **** with our defense you're ****in with Death Row

And we ain't even swanging them thangs we're hollering 187 with our dick in your mouth, beeatch

This is probably my favorite pick of the draft because it has floor AND an enormous ceiling.

Chenel is immediately a great run defender and solid pass rusher. That can bring value in its own right and make him a solid Sam prospect in base packages.

And he has every physical tool you could ask for in becoming a good coverage player. He’s simply never been asked to do it. And it’s going to take some time to learn how. His feel in space will take some time.

But there’s legit horse 3-down backer potential. He can do some of the Devin White stuff where he gets downhill right now on 3rd downs with the ability to eventually just be a solid coverage player and thus be a real difficult guy to read and gameplan for.

I haven’t fully settled on ‘ranking’ picks, but he’s up there. Hard to find anything to not be excited about here.

Spags definitely has some guys that he can blitz with.

The days of being runned on are over!!

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Brian Cushing, hopefully without the injuries.

I wonder if Chiefs will use a 7th or a UDFA on Leo Chenal brother, John Chenal, a FB for Wisconsin Badgers.

Michael Burton was solid last year, but Chiefs are a team that keeps a FB, and maybe he would be a good backup or practice squad guy.

No. You don't get a new fullback. You a fullback at home that you barely even play with.

Burton was excellent for us last year and he already has pro experience

I’m not drafting a FB. A FB should be an UDFA at best unless it’s Mike Alstott

And even if you want him, as a likely UDFA I’d have to think the chiefs are at the front of the line come contract time. So why use a 7th to jump the line when you’ll likely be able to sign him anyway?

Is he going to get to wear #5? Asking for the wife.

Kid somehow pulled off a backwards tackle. LOL

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Good point.

Having four 7th round picks is interesting. I wonder if any teams will offer a 2023 6th if there is a guy they really want and don't think they would get the UDFA contract.

Exactly ! Fish never never got past Pop Warner football or lifted weights:p

Chenal had a 34 rep benchpress at the combine.

Imagine 34 reps in any lift almost regardless of weight

I've benched 20 lbs 34 reps. Nobory gave me a medal

I hope the first day he gets to arrowhead he marathon watches every Derrick Thomas snap uninterrupted. No pressure kid

I try not to be hyperbolic, but watching his highlights reminds me a lot of TJ Watt.

Given that he's (allegedly) a liability in coverage, do we line him up at edge and let him pin his ears back on obvious passing downs?

I think we have 3 now if I’m not mistaken. We burnt one moving up for Kinnard. But yeah it should be a good opportunity for that. Just makes for a VERY boring and slow 6th round from an entertainment standpoint

Just heard a good interview on Sirius radio describing this guy. They think Spags can use him as a very versatile piece like Micah Parsons but over time will be used more like Matt Milano in Buffalo.

He’s extremely smart and should be able to handle multiple roles as a rookie

I didn't even notice that he was #5.:doh!: Chenal#5! Wife loves that fragrance.

He's going to get bigger and stronger with an NFL caliber weight training program, dipshit. I know he's already strong, his stats are here in the thread. I wasn't calling him weak.

Someone said Chanel is a poor man’s Micah Parsons

You benched 680 pounds.

Is this good?

I'm not sure if this is good?

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It’s a good thing for the player and the team he plays for.

My favorite team is the Kansas City Chiefs, so if he plays for them, that’s a good thing.

I'm so excited to see what this kid can do. Someone compared him to Luke Kuechly.

Playing in the B1G I'd say so. Between him, Jones, Karlaftis crashing those lineman playing us is going to be a pain literally

Leo Chenal was drafted with pick 103 of round 3 in the 2022 draft class. He scored a 9.99 RAS out of a possible 10.00. This ranked 3 out of 2419 LB from 1987 to 2022. https://ras.football/ras-information...D=21440&pos=LB #RAS #Chiefs


Wholly Shet!

Man, I'm just SOOOOO glad I'm not going to have to watch Niemann flail around, miss tackles, and blow coverage anymore.

The ONLY thing Niemann supposedly had was smarts; This kid is bigger, faster, and also reportedly extremely smart.

**** a whole bunch of Niemann and Sorensen's slow, shitty tackling, no cover skill having bullshit out there on crucial downs.

Beast mode

I love how this kid plays but I'm nervous that we will use him enough.

When they said he was a "strong side linebacker" that told me he might not be on the field that much.

To me this guy should be coming after the QB in passing situations...just send him. I don't want to see them try to "develop" him like they did with Gay.

Man, he's too good of an athlete. Yeah, in base 4-3, he's a SAM, which is perfect for his size.

But he's WAY more athletic than, say, Niemann was. And reportedly extremely smart, was the MLB in college and called the plays. So he's like if Niemann took the Captain America Serum.

and yeah, he had 8 sacks, so he's got pass rush ability too; and I could well see them blitzing him a lot, or even rotational EDGE on passing downs. He's going to play a lot.

I hope so. I think he can be very useful but it comes down to what they do with him. My friend in Wisconsin said they play a lot of 2-4 Fronts and Chenal is a rusher.

We could do the same thing in passing situations using him and Gay as rushers.

Sure. Hell, if you bring back Ingram, you could legit run some 3-4 fronts if you want on base downs.

You could do a LOT of things with these caliber athletes.

maybe that's why they brought in Cullen.

Also, Gay was known to be a raw prospect; this kid is not raw. He's smart, has been the leader of a defense, knows what he's doing.

Are they brave enough to go 3-3-5 as their base? Seems like we're set up to show that look more often than not at the moment.

They didn’t draft another LB on day 3 not to use them. They clearly have a plan, and given that they only took 1 EDGE, I think it’s safe to say that they will take advantage of his ability to get to the QB.

I was going to ask - do you think we will send him off the edge? I think he’ll get some looks out there. I can’t help but think TJ Watt when I watch him. Maybe because he’s white. But still…

Been wondering the same thing.

Didn’t the Redskins play Brian Orakpo at strong side LB for a year or two early in his career? Still got a bunch of sacks, so maybe Chenal can follow a similar trajectory.

A lot of his sacks seem to be pursuit sacks from short zone coverage. The rest seem to be interior blitzes.

He didn’t really show the edge technique that some are presuming he has based on his sack numbers.

Look at him as a supercharged Niemann and you’re on the right track. At least for now.

In time I think he’ll develop more edge technique and get more comfortable in coverage.

The tools or there but the reps in those situations really haven’t been.

this pick is getting more and more exciting as time passes

Bright side of this: if he was consistently rushing from the edge successfully, there’s no chance the Chiefs could’ve drafted him where they did.

Out with the old and in with the new. People will like this 49 better.

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Karlaftis took Niemann’s.
Chenal took Sorensen’s.

LMAO

The purge is complete!

I can't wait to see some scrub wear #10.

YES. I LOVE 49 FOR THIS DUDE.

It's the enforcer number for us. Thanks for your service, Dirty Dan. It's time to upgrade with Death Row.

Sad, I was hoping they would retire the #49

We're going to be thinking OH NO when we really mean OH YA!!! LMAO

I think he could be a better edge rusher than Karlaftis, given the opportunity and coaching.

I really, really want to be wrong about Karlaftis, but I just don't like him. Not him personally, but his transition to the NFL in this defense.

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Oh, you will be.

I know that I am not the only one who isn't a fan of the pick, but I will be happy to be wrong.

Spags just got a ton of his preferred type of guys. There are no more excuses for his performance.

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