Late night bullshit: places I think the Chiefs must go in the draft.

[Direckshun]

Just thinking out loud here, humor me.

KC has eight picks in the draft.

3 high rounders (tier 1)
2 midrounders (tier 2)
3 low-rounders (tier 3)

I think this team's worst need is two-fold: nose tackle and secondary depth.

This season, the Chiefs will face an incumbent Carson Palmer twice, Philip Rivers twice, Peyton Manning twice, Matt Ryan, two overall #1 picks of the past two years in Cam Newton and Andrew Luck, Ben Rothlessberger and Drew Brees. That is a brutal line of quarterbacks.

Which of course means two things: we could be facing these QBs for months with Travis Daniels as a starting corner if either Routt or Flowers go down (Arenas is pretty much a pure nickel corner). Not to mention our precarious safety situation, in which we only have Berry and Lewis, only two players with any reliability. I'd like much more talent here.

The Chiefs of course need to find themselves a nose. They need to find themselves depth across the front seven, particularly at OLB and DE.

And the Chiefs need depth along the offensive line, which right now stands only at David Mims and Darryl Harris.

So following my own arbitrarily restrictive guidelines, how might I arrange this draft?

The one indispensible one, I'd think, would be the nose, which would almost have to be selected in the first three rounds. DE is a tough position to invest in, so I think that'd have to be a high round pick, too.

Offensive line depth should require something like two picks, maybe some tackle depth in the midrounds and some interior OL depth in the late rounds.

So that commits our three tiers to something like this:

Tier 1 (3 picks): NT, DE, ???
Tier 2 (2 picks): OT, ???
Tier 3 (3 picks): OG, ???, ???

I know this is all based purely on need, which is not how you draft. But I'm just playing with an exercise here.

That means you have a pick still free in the first tier, one in the second tier, and two in the third tier.

Here's the thing, I think we should have one secondary selection in all three tiers.

I know that only leaves one spot open for passrusher, and it's in the third tier, but there are some pretty interesting developmental guys in the lowrounds this year as passrushers, and we've already got 5 passrushers under contract.

Just thinking out loud here.

1. DE Michael Brockers, LSU
2. NT Alameda Ta'amu, Washington
3. S Brandon Taylor, LSU
4. CB Brandon Boykin, Georgia
5. OT Brandon Mosley, Auburn
6. S Winston Guy, Jr., Kentucky
7. OLB Kyle Wilbur, Wake Forest
7. OG Austen Pasztor, Virginia

The team:

QB: Cassel, Quinn, Stanzi
RB: Charles, Hillis, McCluster
FB: Bannon

WR: Bowe, Breaston, Baldwin, Copper, McCluster
TE: Moeaki, Boss, Maneri

LT: Albert, Mosley
LG: Lilja, Harris
C: Hudson, Harris
RG: Asamoah, Pasztor
RT: Winston, Mosley

DE: Dorsey, Bailey
NT: Ta'amu, Gordon, Powe
DE: Jackson, Brockers, Gordon

OLB: Hali, Sheffield
ILB: Belcher, Siler
ILB: Johnson, Siler
OLB: Houston, Studebaker, Wilbur

CB: Flowers, Routt, Arenas, Daniels, Brown, Boykin
S: Berry, Lewis, Taylor, Guy