ESPN insider McShay's Mock

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Originally Posted by Kyle DeLexus

Don't get me wrong, I agree you can't base that off of his season. Yet you can base it off of his potential that he's had all along, his ceiling is WAY higher than Cassel's yet we went with Cassel because he could manage a top 5 offense.

They went with Cassel because he was a known commodity. Sanchez was not. I don't think that Cassel is the end all, be all, and if a top flight QB were to be available to the Chiefs in the draft, I can't imagine them passing on one, but I don't believe that Sanchez was viewed as that type of guy. (And I like Mark a lot as a QB. He showed a lot of moxy and did progress as the season went on. He did have a lot of WTF? moments though. Typical rookie QB season.) Sanchez would have been broken, mentally, physically, if he started for KC last season, and there was no way in hell that Thigpen was going to be our starter.

I wouldn't be shocked if the Chiefs start stockpiling picks in an effort to make a run at a player like Gabbert in a year or two.

Personally, I wouldn't mind it one bit if the Chiefs took their first rounder and one of their seconds and a fifth to move up to get Suh at #1 and traded Dorsey to one of those teams wanting/needing a 4-3 DT (Tampa, Detroit, Tennessee, etc.) and get that second and fifth back via that trade.