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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Yeah, I had 'prefer longer DBs' in there but it read funny to me.
McDuffie just didn't fit the Spags mold. You especially wouldn't have figured on a fairly aggressive trade-up to get him.
The 'mold' is more of a set of guidelines. They'll go outside them if they find a player they like. I feel like they lean into that sort of thing more heavily in the 3rd day when they're trying to find contributors rather than potential blue-chippers.
Danna being the exception I can think of as a 3rd day pick who doesn't fit a typical rubric for what we seem to look for. The rest of the 3rd day picks tend to adhere to a general trend.
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The McDuffie thing just threw me off entirely.
I absolutely loved McDuffie, but I didn't think he'd be in our range, and he obviously didn't meet the typical thresholds.
It's exactly why I don't know what think think about guys like Smith and McDonald at EDGE.
A big question mark going into this draft is have the Chiefs becomes more flexible with this stuff, or is McDuffie jsut a great football player that they made an exception for?
They sure have met with a lot of those undersized edge rushers.