Possibility of trading L’Jarius Sneed

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Originally Posted by The Franchise

Veach would be dumb not to have a backup plan in place just in case contract negotiations don't go as he planned. People thinking that he's just going to trade OBJ and then trade up for a LT are a crazy. The more realistic solution, outside of him signing a long term deal, is that they draft an OT in the first couple of rounds and let OBJ play on the tag this year.

Not the worst idea in the world and I wholly support it. There are a few guys I wouldn't mind in that scenario on day 2. At least you know going into the 2024 draft if you have to go get a guy on day 1 or not too.

Steen has really grown on me in that he just might be able to play LT and I think he can play RT at worst. He had a nice short shuttle and broad jump at the combine.

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Yep.

Everybody was convinced they were going to draft a tackle when they ended trading for OBJ. The Chiefs clearly aren't the type of team to hand the 2nd most important position on offense to a rookie.

I really don't think playing a rookie comes into play that much, honestly.

I'm more inclined to believe that Veach felt he wasn't getting a LT at 31, ran his mocks, and thought the latest one would be available was to move up to 16. There's no way he thought, nor did anyone else except the Raiders, that Leatherwood was a LT and Darrisaw would instead drop to 23. A move from 31 to 16 is expensive, either at least a future 1st or a 2nd and 3rd. Trading for OBj was just a cheaper deal than moving to 16.

This is an eerily similar draft to 2021 with O-Line prospects but this time around the prospect or retaining OBj is expensive too.