*****2020 NFL DRAFT THREAD - NO SPOILERS*****
 

Version 2020 - WORLD CHAMPION EDITION

We are now within 24 hours - Cincinnati is on the clock.

Let's ****ing do this.

Rules:
1. No spoiled picks in this thread, all weekend. This means that as tweets are leaking picks a few minutes before the selection is announced live, you don't post it in this thread (ex: embedded tweets), reference it in this thread (ex: Joe Slapdick says it's So and So to Green Bay) or hint at it (ex: "it's a RB!").

2. Don't be a dick.

Otherwise, have fun, talk shit, freak out and lose your goddamned minds. It's Draft Weekend. The hot takes in these threads are so funny. I'll also be starting player threads for each of our picks as they are made, with videos and notable stats/takes in the OP. Pure knee jerk gold to reference in the future.


Here is our current pick order:

• Round 1: Pick No. 32: CLYDE EDWARDS-HELAIRE, RB, LSU
• Round 2: Pick No. 63: WILLIE GAY, JR, LB, MISS. STATE
• Round 3: Pick No. 96: LUCAS NIANG, OL, TCU
• Round 4: Pick No. 138: L'JARIUS SNEED, DB, LA. TECH
• Round 5: Pick No. 177: MIKE DANNA, DE, MICHIGAN
• Round 6: No Picks
• Round 7: Pick No. 237: THAKARIUS BOPETE KEYES, CB, Tulane

Here is a list of the prospects the Chiefs have shown interest in this year.

View the 2019 Draft thread here
View the 2018 Draft thread here
View the 2017 Draft thread here

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NO SPOILERS

Except Dante will spoil all the picks anyway. :)

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In. Another step towards the repeat.

I say repeat, because the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl in 2020. The Kansas City Chiefs, who are my favorite professional football team, will be repeat champions when they also win the Super Bowl in 2021.

The football team in the national football league that is called the Chiefs of the city of Kansas City are the current champions of the national football league's 2019 season, in which they competed in the national football league's postseason playoff tournament and won every game including the final game called the Super Bowl, which is why I call them the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs.

IF??? When!!!

So close to a perfect post.

From masks to gags!

IN
The pick will be a very nice pick.

You’re right!! Good call!

In, but if any of you guys start squabbling, I reserve the right to leave and seek a more pleasant experience. We're all homers now.

Veach should have all of us eating out of his hand for at least the next year now that he has a belt under his, ah, belt.

FIRST PAGE MARTHA FOCKERS!!!!!

Can't wait till we draft that piece of shit.

I reserve the right to bitch about every pick and then swear I loved it later if the player is good

Draft night time to stay on the ship!

Kinda like Fenton

I really doubt there will be spoilers this year given the circumstances the teams are drafting under.

bring me that horizon

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I plan to spoil every pick

Oh yeah. This is tomorrow.

Our first round pick is going to have over a year to prepare

According to arrowhead pride, the player we have met the most through their tracking is Van Jefferson.

Thought that was interesting

Alright.

This is an escape from your bullshit..Keep it where it belongs.

Final predictions everyone?

Ruiz is a Chief

Bring on that football buzz, can’t wait

Dante will have all the relevant profiles lined up and ready to go, no doubt

We won't make a pick thursday.

I gotchoo dawg

Shannon Sharpe says he would take a defensive player like a LB or a RB if he were in the Chiefs position

will Roger announce the picks with a mask covering his mouth?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Per league sources, the Raiders and Jaguars are close to a trade for DE Yannick Ngakoue. <br>- The Raiders are offering pick 19 and the Jaguars want pick 12.<br>- Some sources think Jacksonville won&#39;t get a better offer than pick 19. <a href="https://t.co/SkwkpCc7GV">https://t.co/SkwkpCc7GV</a></p>&mdash; Charlie Campbell (@DraftCampbell) <a href="https://twitter.com/DraftCampbell/status/1253164738600714240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Has Charlie Campbell ever broken anything?

Between the source and the Raiders not really having a need at DE, I’m not buying this one at all.

Yannick wants out pretty bad.

Raiders can have him.

Here's a fun watch. This is a RB we've met with twice: Darrynton Evans

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What one player in this draft would make the impact on our Chiefs!? Who would make us unstoppable? No matter where they’re going to be picked...

For me that's probably Chase Young.

Matrick Pahomes, ILB.

He's the Wario to Pat's Mario, or the Odlaw to his Waldo if you will.

Yup.
Simmons is great too, but plays less impactful positions.

for some reason I thought we still had another month to go, lol.

Now I'm excited, although I don't follow college football and no idea who we might get. Hoping for good interior o-line, linebacker, CB and RB.

If and when this deal goes down, I still think Jax is a potential landing spot for Jones. They will have cap space and a whole bunch of draft picks.

Actually, that isn't true, their DL is very pedestrian, Ferrell and Crosby are complimentary guys, they need some serious improvement there.

Nah, they're tanking and want cheap guys, they are doing the tank for Trevor.

Not sure this means anything but it’s interesting

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The fact that Gil Brandt and Daniel Jeremiah (in his last mock no less) brought up a potential Chris Jones trade the night before the draft is interesting.</p>&mdash; Kent Swanson (@kent_swanson) <a href="https://twitter.com/kent_swanson/status/1253146173302550530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I dunno, Jeremiah works for the Chargers and Brandt is so ****ing old half the shit out of his mouth is senile old man speak.

I think moving Jones has always been an option. If it does go down, today is the most likely day. If not today, he is probably not going anywhere.

Idk my dick gets seriously hard thinking about having Swift in this offense, the dude reminds me of Barkley

Yeah, if he doesn’t get moved today then it’s almost a guarantee that we’re keeping him.

The only way I see a trade after today is if a contender loses a DL during camp, and we still don’t have a deal worked out. Might be able to rip some other team off big time in that situation.

I mean, if Ngaukuoe goes for 12 and Buckner goes for 13, you have to get a 10-15 pick worth of value for Jones.

Who out there is willing to pay that price? Tampa is going for it and could use an interior rusher, but getting the OL help they need for Brady gets tough if they move #14.

Crosby is super overrated based on 1 game last year. He had a lot of no-show games last year. 1 game with 4 sacks, 9 games with 0 sacks. He also only had 1 sack against a playoff team, despite playing 6 games against playoff teams.

Decent player, but not much more than that.

It would be an absolute “all-in” move for Tampa Bay. If they don’t get a ring in the next two years after making that move, they’ll be ****ed for awhile.

Giving up a top 15 pick to pay a 26 year old DL big money is a “now” move. They’ll still be paying Jones once he starts to decline and won’t have a younger top 15 player from a strong draft.

OL is probably a more pressing need for them, but they need pass rush too. Shaq Barrett will come back to reality. They’ve already lost 6 sacks from Nassib too.

Wouldn’t shock me if they made the trade, but that would be a very shortsighted move for a team with a few major holes.

Tampa isn't trading their 1 for Jones, they need a OT for Brady.

I also wanted to add I've been making fun of Gil Brandt for the better part of 12 years on this site for being old and senile and talking about nonsensical shit, why would it be any better now?

Let's DO THIS!

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Good luck... always love the NFL draft weekend, fun to see what teams do and then listen to all the armchair GMs pontificate on why it was failed or greatness.

Enjoy.

It will be weird to not hear a cluster of Jets fans booing with their pick...lol.

Seriously, though, not that I ever paid much attention to the fans, but it's going to seem so empty, especially whenever it was going to be an epic time in Vegas.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jerry Jones will draft at home alone, with no one to stop him <a href="https://t.co/6V0EDffE42">https://t.co/6V0EDffE42</a></p>&mdash; ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProFootballTalk/status/1253315641697800192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I agree. I think both would benefit the Chiefs tremendously. I don’t see Reid taking a RB rd. 1, though. I am going to guess CB or LB; my dark horse pick is DE.

Didn’t the Jets fans love the Vernon Gholston pick though?

Jaguars.

If they trade Ngaukuoe, they'll have a hole and get a better player who knows how to be a professional like Jones. Rather have Jones, pay Jones, and get rid of a malcontent who argues with the owner on Twitter to drum up public sympathy like Ngaukuoe.

Get #9, get Ruggs or maybe Simmons if he drops a couple picks.

I am so ready for this.

I think they will go with BPA LB, CB, IOL, RB once they trade back. If they LB CB targets are not there I wouldn't be surprised they take an RB.

Gil Brandt in front of a mic these days reminds me of when Dick Clark had a stroke and they made him do New Year's Eve coverage anyway.

Leave the poor man alone and let him die in peace.

They don't give a rats ass if they have a hole, they are tanking the **** out of their season.

So no idea how tonight is going to go, but if I had to take a guess: We trade down out of the first round due to what players we wanted to select being taken before they get to us. With that being said, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say we draft a RB (Clyde Edwards-Helaire is my exact guess) early in the second and then get Bryce Hall with our original 2nd round pick.

Now that I've typed it out, it's not going to happen at all.

Eventually you'll need pieces to build back up, even if you're tanking for Lawrence. Chris Jones to anchor your DLine for the next four to five years would help Lawrence on the other side of the ball, and if they're dumping contracts and going young then they'll have the money to pay him.

And boy did that fail on Ngaukuoe's part. He got dunked on by the owner.

Which is why the Raiders rumor is the only team I can see that is stupid enough to pay him a chunk of their salary cap like that. No way I'm paying Ngaukuoe $20 million just because it's the price of doing business.

Not now though, if they wanted that why wouldn't they just draft Kinlaw at 9?

The draft threads are always entertaining. They go something like this every year:

And with the_____pick, the Kansas Chiefs pick ______. This is always followed up by several people saying, What are they thinking! They could of had _________ with that pick! Veach you dumb son of a bitch! The various news stories and videos start to come out about the players we picked and the reaction is, oh, I'm really starting to warm up to ______ good call Veach!

To each their own, but at this point, I go with the theory that they know more about the players they draft then I do and subscribe to the I'll wait and see program.

Matt Miller Final Mock:

1. Kristian Fulton
2. J.K. Dobbins
3. Curtis Weaver
4. Nick Harris
5. Joe Bachie


I’d be pretty happy with this, though I’d like to come out of this draft with a WR.

Weaver is intersting...he'd basically be a weakside end in our scheme though.

For cheaper cost and a few years younger is the only reason. Kinlaw vs. Jones, I'm taking the sure thing and most teams would as well.

Yep I always take the wait and see approach. I sure as hell don't want to say something as dumb as "Won't Sniff the Playoffs!" Or fire/dump that worthless POS!

NOT IN THEIR POSITION, they are building for 3 years from now. You don't do what they've done unless you are tearing it down and in the midst of tearing it down you don't add 100 million dollar players.

I fully expect them to add pieces that will allow for Lawrence to be ok when they think they'll be picking him next year. If they have that offer for Yannick, he'll get moved, they'll probably try to trade out of 9...would fully expect an OT and a WR in the 1st if they pull those moves.

As long as the pick didn't happen during a commercial break.

We should have taken Sergio Kindle and Terence Cody !!!

Kindle would have been good if he could walk a flight of stairs.

People who don’t have opinions before the draft about players....can shut the **** up after the draft.