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Originally Posted by KcChiefsKing
Shit happens I guess. But seriously, giving a 3rd pick to a basically unproven player is unrealistic. If we **** up and dont draft Sanchez and he turns out to be great, then we have a chance at getting another qb early next year. If Im right(which I hope I'm not) and it was a fluke year, then we wasted a pick on him and it will take YEARS for us to recover. One good year is no reason to pick a guy 3rd overall. We dont know if he can be consistent year to year.
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First of all there are no sure picks. Busts happen. Any player drafted with any pick is an unproven player. By your way of thinking we should never draft another player regardless of position, EVER.
If we don't draft Sanchez, or Stafford for that matter, and they turn out to be great we have really f**ked up. The teams that draft and develop them will be that much better than we are.
The reason so many on this board want to draft a QB this year are:
1. Clark Hunt has said over the last 2 years he wants to draft and develop a franchise QB.
2. The most tried and true way of building a team in the NFL (and we are building in KC) is to draft a franchise QB and fill in complimentary players after the QB is in place.
3. In order to have a shot at selecting a franchise QB, you normally have to have a very high 1st round draft position. They are VERY MUCH in demand by all NFL teams. They generally don't last long in the draft and are usually taken with higher picks. Last year the Chiefs had the #5 pick. Going into the draft there was one QB considered a franchise QB-he was drafted with the #3 pick, so we didn't have a chance to draft him. This year we have the #3 pick.
4. In considering who we may select with the #3 pick Chiefplaneteers have speculated our biggest needs as QB, DE, LB, OL. Of these we've speculated:
a. OL. Generally the only OL selection worthy of a #3 pick is the LT position. Although there are some nice unproven candidates available this year, we used a first round selection on a LT, Albert, last year. We do not need another LT.
b. DE. There is not one DE who is head and shoulders above all the other DEs available this year. Some consider the prospects who probably will be available with the second round pick to be just as good as the player we may get with the first round pick. Also, we feel that in next year's draft, there will be an abundance of high quality DEs available.
c. LB. Some on this board would never draft a LB high in the 1st round. Every year Baltimore and Pittsburg find good players at LB in the 2nd, 3rd rounds etc. There are exceptions and this year there is one unproven prospect, Aaron Curry, who may be worthy of a high pick if your team projects him at OL in a rush position.
d. QB. This year there are two unproven players projected as high 1st round draft picks. Next years draft, right now, looks underwhelming. Plus we expect not to have the #3 pick in the draft next year. We may never be in a better spot to draft a franchise QB.
Those are the reasons for all the QB hype in so many threads. Some of us favor an aggressive approach, not only in on-the-field play, but in the draft as well. Are there risks? Sure, but we feel the rewards are higher than the risks.