Arguments for a Left Tackle in the 2010 Draft.

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Originally Posted by keg in kc

How about they do something crazy and select the best player on the board. The Chiefs have plenty of holes to fill, I don't think they need to go out of their way to limit their additions to one side of the ball. If that's Berry, great. If that's McClain, great. If they think it's Bryant or Spiller, great.

10 to 1 that "best player on the board" is Okung.

What truly befuddles me is that it's painfully obvious to most people in the football industry who are objectively analyzing the Chiefs seem to have the general consensus that they desperately need improved play from the LT position. And then you got this board who thinks it's fine and dandy to keep the entire turnstile operation going with the current players because they have the ultimate in trust and undying loyalty for a Carl/Herm project pick at LT.

I mean, they could have picked Curry last year but there was this collective meltdown because we needed to give DJ another year to prove himself and god forbid that you would ever consider taking a linebacker with a top five pick (unless you happened to watch the recent National Championship game and heard Brent Musberger say that McClain watched game film, which then made it okay to draft a MLB with a top five pick). Now it's the we can't draft a LT or DE because we had Carl/Herm take a DT and a OG two drafts ago, and while they haven't panned out performance wise, are playing out of position and are having a negative impact on the overall performance of the Chiefs because of it, we can't possibly look at upgrading either spot because, well, we trust Carl/Herm's talent evaluation process so we are willing to let these players substandard performance slide until it becomes so painfully obvious that they are not producing on the field. Well, other than the purported performance explosion of Branden Albert in the second half of the season (even though he was thoroughly owned in the Buffalo game - and we all know how good Buffalo is), and that Dorsey got a sack against Denver, so he's got to be improving, right? (Albeit his only sack of the entire season.)

Well, I'm here to tell you - **** 'em. They are out of position, playing in the wrong scheme and need to be traded (Dorsey) or reassigned (Albert).

In fact, I wouldn't be too surprised if the Chiefs draft board top ten looked like:

1. Ndamukong Suh
2. Russ Okung
3. Joe Haden
4. Dan Williams
5. Dez Bryant
5. Rolando McClain
6. Eric Berry
7. Jared Odrick
8. Sergio Kindle
9. Jonathan Dwyer
10. Charles Brown

If they keep to their (my) board above, I think that they will be fine with their first round selection.