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OT Dawand Jones, Ohio State

Dawand Jones arrives on draft boards at a difficult time for the Chiefs to potentially draft him. He is not a great fit in Kansas City in both his skillset and current slate of needs. At this exact moment in time, with us on the outside unsure of how likely it is that LT Orlando Brown Jr. may return for future seasons, the Chiefs should be targeting a right tackle with positional flexibility to left tackle, in the off chance their talks with Brown collapse. But Jones is the least positionally flexible in the entire draft: at 6'8", 360 lbs, he is far too long to play guard, and he is not nimble enough to manage left tackle. He is a pure right tackle, and I think he's going to drop in the draft, maybe to Day 3.

If the Chiefs were to take Jones early, however, you can pretty much bet that Brown is locked in for the foreseeable future. Jones is Phil Loadholdt reborn, a mountain of a man that provides just as much nasty as you'd expect. Next to Trey Smith, you'd have the angriest right side of an OL in football. He is as close as you get to a trump card in the run game: he is longer than the guys he's blocking, he's bigger than the guys he's blocking, and he's pretty technically adept for a guy his size. Not enough people talk about a Chiefs OL that is strong against the pass but despite its size, struggles to move people in the run game. Jones is an answer to that.

The question then becomes: do you want two mountainous tackles with slow feet at the same time on the same OL. I don't think we do. He has fantastic arm length, like Orlando Brown, to force the quicker passrushers wide. He also cannot be bullrushed, like, at all -- maybe a bit for now until he gets his technique further down. But his feet are even slower than Brown's. He's going to need a ton of help for at least a good while, and may have to "slim down" to 320 before he's an athlete you can trust on the edge.

Ultimately, this is a guy who can provide some answers for the Chiefs on the right side, and present challenges as well. If he falls to the 4th, I am interested. Earlier than that, and there's just other players who give us more without the hamstringing he's going to come with for a while.