I have heard other reports that the Chiefs were very torn between DJ and Donovan.

In the end, they decided DJ was a bit better but if DJ wasn't out there Donovan would be here now.

Yeah Smith would've been here a months ago if Veach didn't have Humphries up his sleeve

Seems like Veach knew Humphries would be cleared to play soon enough, and thats why he decided to just try and get by with Wanya until we could safely secure DJ

Link?

It's from Nate Taylor and the "Weird Games" podcast

Uhhhh....did you watch him play yesterday?

Hopefully that's true and DS is still just a phone call away.

Again - if DJ goes down, we are back to square one. I'd rather over-index on LT and sign Smith for insurance, given the alternative.

Hell, even if DJ does work out and Taylor goes down, we're ****ed that way too. Not sure if DJ or Smith are capable of playing RT?

I'd like to have two capable Tackles on the roster, and not have to rely on our LG to be our backup Tackle.

What starting left tackle in the NFL is graded worse than Wanya Morris?

PFF has him at 50.7 and that isn't even taking account the awful Raiders game yet.

The Chiefs should sign both Donovan Smith and David Bakhtiari for depth.

What has happened the past two games at LT should be a DEFCON 1 emergency.

Bakhtiari Is done. He’s like Lewan. His knee is finished.

He won’t even pass a physical at this point

I don't know, because I don't give a shit what anyone's PFF grade is. I was talking about pressure percentage and before the Raiders game Wanya had about exactly the same pressure % as Donovan Smith. Smith isn't an improvement over Morris, especially being a year older and out of football for as long as he's been.

That's the problem with trading up in the first round. Look at all the guys we've talked about in the 20-32 range of the draft the last 4 or 5 years and how many of them actually became adequate left tackles. A good portion aren't even playing tackle anymore. That's the "floor" for a draft pick.

I agree. I hope the solution is DJ Humphries. But Smith damn sure isn't.

It's been reported that the team sees it as a very close call between the two but though Humphries had a higher upside and as a younger player could be a longer-term solution.

So if Smith "damn sure isn't the solution" then it seems you might be disappointed in DJ.

From what I have read/heard, the team doesn't see a massive gap between their likely contributions this year. And should Humphries get hurt, I think they'd absolutely call Smith.

Edit: looks like this point was made already.

Donovan just did Patrick the courtesy of holding the shit out of the Defensive End to prevent Patrick from being obliterated on the field. Still ruined our drives, but a vastly preferable long term approach for our QB.