Reading up on him, he apparently has a good rating for breaking tackles. That matches the profile of what Andy likes.

Fits our offense, great catcher of the ball

Still surprised he was taken over Swift though, who also fits our offense and is more complete and has more speed.

Yeah, you should probably be running an NFL franchise. Obviously Bret Veach and Andy Reid of the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs are dumb****s but you know what's up.

In this offense with Mahomes, having a very good or better RB makes this offense pretty much unstoppable. We saw that when we had Hunt.

This.

Whatever.

Haters here are such bitches. The guy who found Patrick Mahomes just built a Super-Bowl-winning team and then drafted the only RB in the first round and people are doubting him? Huh?

Now this offense will be unstoppable for the entire four quarters.

It’s normally not a good idea to take this strong of a stance on any draft pick. If he’s good, get ready for this meltdown to get quoted over and over.

frozenchief....similar to Captain America, was just dug out of the ice after a 40 year slumber in March or April. He is unaware that we are the reigning Super Bowl champions and that we have absolutely no reason not to trust Veach's decisions at this point. Frozenchief, we welcome you to the year 2020. It's been a shitshow (sans the super bowl of course), but things will be improving in the months to come.

Burrow said CEH is the best athlete on the team. Mahomes will love him.

I remember this kid. Great change-of-direction. Excellent balance. Good/possibly great vision. Didn't know he was 5' 7". Looks thick.

Andy/Veach must've seen something to draft him with our first pick.

Well, it's off to work i go. Laters.

yup

Anyone that is bitching is weird to me, running game was our 1 offensive weakness.

Love it. Two guys I saw a lot of last year, every game I’d say, Damn he’d look good with the Chiefs: Travis Etienne and CEH.

You know, that's a good point. In the 4th, when we're just trying to run clock, a RB like that will definitely help.

Christian McCaffrey says hi

If you want to argue picking different guys, that's fair and all, but I would not trust any statistical analysis that says Tennessee has a better chance of winning games if they avoided giving Derrick Henry the ball.

Seriously. For everyone ever dreaming about having Priest or Charles on this offense.

Now we have that.

I’d have preferred Epenesa or a couple other guys, but CEH is a damn playmaker.

They got their #1 rated RB.

Hard to argue with the #1 player at #32.

Congratulations Pete, you no longer own the worst take ever on CP.

That was me also. Very Impressive.

I don't absolutely hate the pick, but I'm guessing we're not getting much help at either CB or LB this year again. Would have preferred a RB in the 2nd. Oh well.

Swift's 5'9, most RBs aren't gonna be 6"1 these days.

Great pick....what a perfect fit.

Great catcher of the ball, fast and quick enough, tough as hell, and DOES NOT FUMBLE....

He could very well be the OROY. Ecstatic.

We finally got a closer. Watch the natty. He got 11 touches in the fourth quarter alone

He’s a beast. We gonna score 40 a game.

CEH also has spent considerable time lined up wide, it's good he's comfortable with that.

This guy is not really a traditional back.

He is a guy you get into space and let him make 1 guy miss and he takes off. He catches the ball really well and again, makes the 1st guy miss and takes off.

I still don't see how he can go over Swift who can do the same things + more.

:shrug:

Some DE's still there too.

wowser

I’m in this boat...buuutttt I’d rather take a good running back than reach for a bad corner or LB to fill a need.

We need young, cheap weapons around Mahomes anyway.

yeah I don't get it either.

And I'm one of those who would say the problem was more the offensive line than the backs, but shit, I don't hate this pick. He's a playmaker. Can't argue with that.

As for first round value, well, shit man, it's #32. **** value.

They got their top rated RB on the board; he's a perfect fit for the offense. Can't beat that.

Now go get me some fatties.

A little bit surprising but I am not disappointed. We Just didn't have enough to move up and I trust our GM and HC.

Happy. Would have a preferred Dobbins but totally on board with their fave rb.

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I'm good with this pick, I hope he learns how to pass block better, something that will come in time.

He's a perfect fit for us ... but so was Swift, who has more speed and more versatility. Clyde might be there when we picked at the bottom of the 2nd.


really surprising

We have D Will for that who’s an excellent blocker

Except for no Sheild Waters and Roalf.

He is Hunt light.. tough runner. Great pass catcher..

Some people are ignoring the run on LB's and CB's the 10 picks before us...

I thought Cleveland would be a great fit at guard for us, but if we got the RB we thought was best, you gotta do it.

There will be a RB run in the next round, none of those guys make it to 64.

Seeing him on film. Holy shit can you imagine watching Reek going in motion with him in the backfield? The opposing defense is now totally ****ed with Pat reading them.

Frozenchief is acting like we just picked Mitchell Trubisky over Patrick Mahomes

Not sure how Chief Fan doesn’t LOVE this pick. The guy is perfect for this offense. He’s tough and can split out wide. It’s brilliant.

In Veach we trust.

His playoff games were fun to watch and he's a weapon, but the pick just feels weird to me. Just meh, but Veach could pick a homeless midget off the street and at this point I'd just assume he knows what he's doing.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Holy offense Bat Man. I love Clyde Edwards-Helaire. He is best Rb in the draft. Watkins and Hill deep. Kelce in the middle. And Edwards-Helaire underneath. Good Luck defenses.</p>&mdash; Chris Simms (@CSimmsQB) <a href="https://twitter.com/CSimmsQB/status/1253537387088658432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I dunno man, I think they should see if he can move to linebacker.

That’s how I see it. RBs are going to fly off the board tomorrow.

Mecole doesn't seem happy.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Are you telling me out of 32 picks D’ANDRE SWIFT WAS NOT SELECTED 🤦🏾*♂️</p>&mdash; Mecole Hardman Jr. (@MecoleHardman4) <a href="https://twitter.com/MecoleHardman4/status/1253540372426326016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

More versatility? How so?

The funny thing about this gif is these guys turned out to be completely right. Fisher was an amazing pick for us.

he'll celebrate in the endzone with clyde cash.

My knock is purely that Reid has been so good at finding RBs in the mid rounds.

That said, if he loves one enough to sign off on taking him early, then he’s probably a ****ing baller.

I’d rather take a good running back than reach for a CB, LB, etc

Hhhhmmmm, let’s look at, oh, I don’t know, actual data, and see why in 2020, you shouldn’t draft an RB in the first round of the draft:

https://www.pff.com/news/pro-are-nfl...018-nfl-season

Hey, look, you know what we see? If you take out information about the identity of the running back, IT DOESN”T MATTER. Why? Because the O line is far more important to the running game than the running back.

How about this one: RB performance is not as stable as QB and WR:

https://www.kaggle.com/c/nfl-big-dat...cussion/112044

Yeah, but we need an RB that can CATCH THE BALL, just like Kareem Hunt! Actually, that doesn’t work so well, either:

https://theathletic.com/1143546/2019...ake-any-sense/

Why? Well, maybe because in the NFL today, you THROW to win. You don’t establish the pass with the running game. you don’t need a good play action to sell the pass. No, you throw to win:

https://www.numberfire.com/nfl/news/...be-overdrafted

So, no. I’m not happy. We wasted an opportunity. What are we going to do in 3 or 4 years? Keep him? Try to trade him? We need a CB and we need LBs and we need good OL guys.

You want to improve the running game? Draft an offensive line. A good O line gets you a much better running game and protects your MVP QB.

What a damn waste of a pick.

Very much this.

Because we did.

I don’t know. Chris Simms vs JakeF.

This could get interesting.

ok boomer?

I thought he moved like a young Shady. But either way, he’s that shifty back Andy seems to have always had during his Philly years.

Did a polar bear eat your dog today or something, dude?

LMAO at this freak out

Little bit younger but I don’t give a ****.

The evidence is clear: RBs don’t merit the attention that they did 30 years ago. You no longer need a first round RB. Handing the ball to an RB generally COSTS a team points. You can either look at the data and agree or you can make snide comments, but the fact is, Veach wasted this pick.

If you disagree, point to a RB in the last 15 years that had a positive Extra Points Added per carry. We would have been better off drafting a WR or another TE.

Has been since Hunt idiotically got himself kicked off the team. Now we have our pass catching back again.

Time to average 40 points a game.

Yea let's reach on an OL the 1 1st round interior guy was gone, like 7 OTs got picked, yea reach fool.

This dude better be a beast. We already have Williams.

Barry Sanders was only 5'8". I'm not saying he's Barry Sanders, but watch some tape and with a little imagination......

Rep for the polar bear joke. I undoubtedly deserve it.

I realize it ultimately is just a game. And I realize we won the SB just a couple of months ago. But I see many, many times where what one expects to happen is not what really happens. and if Veach had been paying attention to what really happens, he would not have chosen an RB with any draft choice and its super frustrating to see that pick just wasted.

I know who I got!!

Mecole wants Swift because their both from Georgia

You miss the point. I said that OL will be a better choice if you want to improve the run game. Sol if there isn’t an OL that’s worthy of a 1st round pick, choose a CB or an LB or an edge rusher or another position we need. Fine. Just don’t waste a first round pick on an RB.

Mecole tweeted that he couldn't believe D'Andre wasn't picked at all in the first round, not that he was complaining about who the Chiefs drafted.

Georgia boy all the way through.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">For everybody who think they know it all, I have no problem with the Chiefs pick! I trust Veach and Coach Reid in their decision process! So save all that extra stuff for some else</p>&mdash; Mecole Hardman Jr. (@MecoleHardman4) <a href="https://twitter.com/MecoleHardman4/status/1253543557366939649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

shut up baby

lol

Did you miss the big CB and WR run? Safety was about the only other real option.

love too have a complete meltdown because the team that just won a super bowl took their BPA at 32

This is how you do it. Pick your choice of a position that hasn't been picked yet. Get the best player at the position. It's how I end up with kelce every year in fantasy.

And before Patrick Mahomes, Big 12 QBs never amounted to anything in the NFL. Get outside of the box and trust the guy who just brought us a SB.

Boo Hoo.. The Chiefs will never make the Super Bowl.. Andy and Veach don’t know what they are doing... Andy is a horrible football coach... Boo Hoo..


JFC.. He’s a great player who will make us even greater on offense...

Then take a safety. I don’t care. The evidence over the past decade plus shows that RBs COST points.

I’m a numbers/data/analytics guy. I read what computer crunching data means for current NFL games means. And they mean that you don’t take an RB in the first round.

Here’s Geoff Schwartz talking about why it is ludicrous to pay for an elite RB in today’s NFL:

https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2020/4/...ound-box-count

This was just a giant waste.

Excellent contact balance.

Bienemy will get him to improve his pass blocking and this kids gonna be a STUD. Could have a per carry average similar to Charles.
The people bitching haven’t seen this kid play.
McKinney would be nice to have but look at the recent investment at safety. A 2 on Juan and a huge contract for Landlord.

Glyde Helaire is going to be fun to watch in this offense.

calm down buddy