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Pretty unsexy draft. But there's some things to like. I think it's a B today, but it could become a C or an A depending on Poe.
Poe was a nice draft pick because it showed Pioli is ready to take a risk on an impact player rather than layup on the safe guy. Let's hope that happens at QB soon enough. Again, I think the Chiefs see several areas of improvement for the guy: 1) no reason to play him 50+ snaps. That's just insane. 2) let him focus on playing one position well instead of moving him around. 3) Hook him up with the martial arts guy. His hand technique is horrendous and it's getting him completely locked up. 4) Hook him up with Romeo, one of the best D-line coaches in the game. Teach him to get his pads down. He gets his pads too high and he gets stood up. The position is all about leverage and he loses that game as soon as the ball is snapped.
Allen--nice pick, even if he's just quality depth. I mentioned before that our o-line is rounding out, but our depth was absolutely horrendous. I think Stephenson is a much better pick than a guy like Mike Adams, who went earlier. Stephenson actually has fast enough feet to play the position -- at worst, he's okay depth. The rest of the draft is a crapshoot, but we may have gotten 1 or 2 starters out of it and quality depth at some key positions. I did think the focus on WRs was a little weird.
At this stage of the Chiefs, it's good that they got deeper, which is what they needed. Let's just hope that somehow magically our QB situation will be fixed sometime in the next 20 years.
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