Should we have taken CB and Safety high in the draft?

[Chiefswinitall 60]

Did Sutton have any say in the draft?   How would our D be if we had got Auburn CB Davis and some safety in the 3rd?

[Legend of AC 269]

Who knows?  

[liquidfriend 1,151]

Carlton Davis hasn't had a good year, but he's a bad fit in Tampa.

I think Speaks would have been ok if they either just played him at DE or made him live in a sauna from the moment we drafted him up till camp.  Not my first choice though.

People were livid they missed out on Josh Jackson and he hasn't done well either.

Passing on Jessie Bates III was just baffling though.  Think how much better off we would be if he was on the field instead of Ron Parker.

[VIChiefsFan 262]

I still cant figure out why we didnt sign Tre Boston. The guy signed for peanuts.

[Biggjliv4 1,292]

It's baffling we traded UP to get Speaks. Wtf

[VIChiefsFan 262]

16 minutes ago, Biggjliv4 said:

It's baffling we traded UP to get Speaks. Wtf

He is good at falling on fumbles.

[liquidfriend 1,151]

4 hours ago, VIChiefsFan said:

I still cant figure out why we didnt sign Tre Boston. The guy signed for peanuts.

I don't know.  

2 hours ago, Biggjliv4 said:

It's baffling we traded UP to get Speaks. Wtf

See above.  Wasn't a fan of Veach's first draft.  

[Lamardirts 2,121]

Yeah Jessie Bates would have been a great pickup for us.     I think its clear to see that both Speaks and Kpass aren't good fits at OLB.  They should bulk up and slide down to DE and use that athleticism to their advantage.  

[Troyofoc 361]

Speaks definitely needs to bulk up and be DE he is just to stiff for outside lb. Wasn't a fan at the time of the draft and to trade up for a guy who seemed to be projected to go in the third. So far are first year gm offseason/draft leaves a lot to be desired.

[qnet 1,158]

That's a really hard question for me, as I don't follow college football enough to know, like a lot of you. From my  experience of watching the NFL over the years, some guys have it, and some just don't, not matter were they're drafted. Drafting talent in the first round helps, but you don't know until the player hits the NFL field for real.

[sith13 1,746]

11 hours ago, qnet said:

That's a really hard question for me, as I don't follow college football enough to know, like a lot of you. From my  experience of watching the NFL over the years, some guys have it, and some just don't, not matter were they're drafted. Drafting talent in the first round helps, but you don't know until the player hits the NFL field for real.

I think it's more of an approach thing. This regime seems to pick guys to groom for positions but has a weird tendency. We made the mistake of picking an edge rusher to make him an OLB, then repeated it twice in the last 2 years with one of them trading up. We seem to look for CBs that can play Safety when picking Safeties the other way around when looking at CBs. So far every experiment failed in this regime and I think it's pretty clear that we need to go for more conventional approaches.