Nate Taylor: Chiefs targeting OT Ronnie Stanley in free agency

[Chris Meck]

Originally Posted by Hoover

I just don't think the Chiefs are going to be in a position to punt on the tackle position even if they sign a free agent in the offseason. And with how the draft board appears to be falling, its not the worst thing in the world grab a tackle int he 1st round.

No matter what happens, Taylor is in his lat year at RT. Morris is a bigger question mark than Kingley IMO because the Chiefs didn't even make him active during the playoffs. Yikes.

Even if you sign a guy like Stanley or Robinson, both have injury issues, and while they are going to cost a lot of money, the Chiefs are still going to be having on eye out for a future LT.

If we are going to keep Karlaftis and McDuffy then we are not going to be able to devote huge portions of the cap to every position on the line. Veach is setting this up to pay 2-3 guys on the line big money, they rest will have to be balanced with young players on rookie contracts.

I don't disagree with any of this, really.

I thought Morris looked better than Kingsley until the injury. I'm not sure he was 100% the rest of the way. So I'm not sure they've given up on him so much as he wasn't healthy. Either way, there are questions.

I don't know that trying to develop 3 OT's simultaneously is the best usage of draft capital, but maybe I'm incorrect.

I see several different paths here and am not qualified to make declarations other than Stanley makes me very nervous. Dude is always hurt.