Did you get a list of likely available players or did you just wing it?

It's a mock Dj and Pest were throwing out there. I moved some players up they had too low in my opinion (Saldiveri and Johnson) and inserted a couple of changes (Wylie over Kuntz, Stills over Clark) and filled in the one blank with Valladay. It's based on composite rankings and gut feeling.

So I lose McGuire due to the value adjustments but I don't think any of those were unreasonable.

Lemme keep Kuntz and his lunatic measurables over Whyle's polish and I can get behind this...

You know what this is?

It's Willie Gay vs Logan Wilson again. I think you were the one who was adamant on Wilson over Gay, right?

Tools vs Polish. Ceiling vs floor. Dog person vs cat person (morons).

Tale as old as time...

Yep. He was Wilson over Gay.

Funny thing is - I don't think either side was wrong.

But I do think we just got something REAL close to Wilson in Tranquill and got him for very little.

On balance, I think we've been just a little better for taking Gay than we would've been with Wilson but there both very good players.

Yeah I was Wilson over Gay. So far, Wilson has been a much better player. If Gay continues to grow he has the potential to have a better 2nd half of their careers but he'll never be as good in coverage. Not that Wilson is amazing there either but its a little stab against Gay who's pretty bad there.

Yeah, I'd say Wilson has been better than Gay to this point ('much' better?...ehhh).

But again, look at what we got Tranquill and I think he's a real similar but slightly better player than Wilson. Whereas I think Gay has more versatility and more 'splash' potential.

I think the Chiefs are in a better position right this very minute for having taken Gay than they would've been taking Tranquill.

But it's so sliding doors as to barely be worth mentioning. Ultimately I think you have fairly defensible positions either way - I just prefer the upside more often than not. And in a situation where we have a brilliant HC for coaching up TEs and a generational talent with crazy intuition he can learn under - I'm just more excited about gambling on the tools.

If those are our first 3 picks I'll need to stock up on paper towels. You know, for the semen.

Much better, yes. Very rose-colored glasses on Gay as a whole in the Chiefs fandom. He's very mediocre. There's a very good chance he loses his starting gig this year. Not that he won't see snaps but with Tranquill in now it's not out of the realm of possibility.

Taylor has a new Mock out today.

I can't state strongly enough how much I hate his draft content. **** it's awful.

Just in case anyone wants to see how shitty it is.

Traded 31 and a 4th to move up to 26.

1 (26). Mazi Smith, DT
2 (63). Tucker Kraft, TE
3 (95). Roschon Johnson, RB

Traded a 4th, 6th, both 7ths and CEH to the Pats for 107.

4 (107). Braden Daniels, OT
4 (117). Riley Moss, CB - Side note...he never says where he's getting 117 from. No clue how we even got that pick since we had 122 and 135.
5 (166). Dorian Thompson-Robinson, QB
6 (178). Viliami Fehoko, Edge
6 (192). Lonnie Phelps, Edge
6 (210). Jalen Moreno-Cropper, WR

I have no clue where he was getting all of those picks from. We started out with two 6ths and two 7ths but somehow traded away picks and ended up with three 6ths?

It's not quite as bad as Peter King's draft because Smith at least makes sense - it just doesn't make sense to trade up. The rest of them are just...dumb.

That draft is pretty awful...why would we take a QB?

Imma have to give that the ol' frowney face on the Athletic App.

If Nate's not going to put any effort into draft analysis, he needs to stop doing it.