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Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief
Nah, you always have to have one of them cheap(like Smith) or a rookie deal. $20 mill for a top RT will be the standard in 2 years, if not next year. If Smith is good again, we won't be able to afford him, but then you can still transition Taylor to LT in 2024, or keep him at RT and try again to get a starter by moving up in the first if we are drafting late again...
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The first scenario is just dumb. If Taylor is the best LT on the team, and you KNOW Smith is here on a one year deal, you don't start Smith.
The Chiefs aren't going to do that. They said the reason they let OBJ go was because they thought he was going to be a long-term solution and his demands pushed him beyond the point of keeping him.
When you combine what they say they want with age, injury, and athleticism, the best long-term strategy is to put Taylor at LT in 2023 and the placeholder at RIGHT tackle. Not the other way around.