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Originally Posted by OKchiefs
The problem is a guy with 4.3 speed who is also a relatively polished receiver probably goes early in the 1st. Taking someone where we pick with that kind of speed is probably going to be a WR who is raw. Certainly some of those guys develop, but with our struggles with developing WRs I'm not sure that's the time and place to take that type of receiver. I think you can find raw WRs with speed in the mid-rounds, if KC is taking someone earlier in the draft I'd prefer someone with a bit more polish like we found with Rice.
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Yeah i think that's a fair take. I suppose my thinking is where we pick we're probably, realistically, getting a guy with one outstanding attribute. If that's speed, route-running, agility, body control etc i feel like the easiest to be confident in is speed. To my mind Rice wasn't that polished. He had good acceleration and great body control, the rest needs developing (and hopefully and seemingly will).
But yeah I agree we're basically getting an imperfect prospect either way. Crow's suggestion of Odunze might be the closest we can get, I REALLY liked him last year and he looks just as good this, but I reckon it'd take a McDuffie-like move up to get him.