Chiefs All-Decade Team - Cornerbacks

[Rain Man]

With the end of the decade, it's time for us to select our all-decade team for the 2010s. Credit to Direckshun for the idea; I'm just implementing it.

Here are the rules:

1. I'll put up lists of position groups one at a time.

2. Each list will contain guys who had at least one notable stat line in their career. I'll generally put them in descending order of some key stat.

3. The stats will contain ONLY their body of work between 2010 and 2019 for the Chiefs. No pre-2010 stats and no stats for other teams.

4. The number of roster spots will be the same as the number of roster spots on the 2019 Super Bowl roster for the Chiefs.

5. You can use whatever criteria you want to select the team. It can be total stats for the decade, it can be dominance in a shorter period, it can be playmakers who didn't screw up badly, whatever. It's your call. Feel free to use any criteria not listed in your decision. For example, if you know that Terrance Copper was an amazing blocker, you can build that into your decision.

6. In a subsequent poll we will determine which players are the starters on the all-decade team. In the first round, you're just going to fill the 53-man roster.

Our next position group is cornerbacks. SIX cornerbacks will make the all-decade team. So pick SIX cornerbacks.

[MeaTy The Pimp]

in before poll

[UK_Chief]

In B4 poll

[Jewish Rabbi]

Pole before in

[Tribal Warfare]

Da poll

[UK_Chief]

Brandon Flowers

[Ebolapox]

before in pole

[Pitt Gorilla]

My pole is in.

[Rain Man]

You guys did press coverage on the b4 poll today. Nice work.

[Rain Man]

My obvious choices were Brandon Flowers, Sean Smith, Brandon Carr, and Charvarius Ward.

After that, I started thinking.

Marcus Peters obviously has a ton of talent, but he seems to not fit in well with defenses. The fact that he's been dumped twice now for bargain bin prices tells me that he's not an all-decade guy.

Steven Nelson? Nah. Phillip Gaines could have been a strong contender, but the knee injury stunted him.

I like Fuller, and wow, that Super Bowl performance. He was our shutdown closer. But he's been beset by injuries, and he ended up more or less being a backup to Breeland and Rashad Fenton. As I look down the list, I don't see any other guys I would pick over Breeland and Fenton, so they're my choices for the final two slots. They really did their jobs when needed, and I really enjoy their Super Bowl win.

And yeah, Fenton's never started a game. But he gets a lot of playing time and an all-decade team will only have two starters anyway.

[dj56dt58]

Wanted to add Carr but 3 of those guys were huge on a super bowl winning team..peters though a douche was a beast and flowers was the number one corner while here. Also went with Sean Smith

[KurtCobain]

Flowers
Carr
Smith
Peters

[Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan]

Obviously I don't have every game memorized (I know, I'm a bad fan), but I kept seeing flashes from Terrence Mitchell (esp. that INT against Oakland), but then he just disappeared in other games. I just kept waiting for him to turn a corner, but he never did.

[ThaVirus]

Peters, Flowers, Sean Smith, Carr, Ward and Breeland.

Hilariously, that is an incredibly solid group of CBs, but there's not an athlete in the bunch. They'd be over matched physically.. fesity and instinctual as hell though.

[EPodolak]

I really thought Sean Smith was out of his depth, but then he suddenly showed up and went on to be a good CB.