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There's two things that are most likely to happen in the NFL Draft and Jesse Newells

here to tell us about them.

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Welcome back everybody.

This is going to be a fun, what Jesse Newell joins us from the athletic, timely, timely

piece here because as we go through all the machinations of this NFL Draft scenario,

just to kind of lay it out for us and I very much appreciate you.

We're going to cover two of them in depth because I think they're the most likely in the

things that I've been brainstorming the most about, but you've got a couple of the emergency

situations.

I like all of them.

So I like that you cover that.

Thanks for coming on.

Yeah.

Thanks for having me.

Just for you Ryan.

Just the perfect timing so we can set up the podcast.

But yeah, I labeled those appropriately, I think, on someone like the YOLO route or

the Oh No Rip Quarterout, so maybe not as likely, but I don't think we can completely rule

them out either.

No.

And at this point, honestly, I don't know if anybody knows what they're going to do in

the top eight.

So I think they're all viable.

But the one that I think with the recent news, I think, is probably leaning now.

I had already heard about room being kind of maybe moving down or being more accurately

pegged around 10 with the chiefs, obviously having interest.

Now that looks like even more of a certainty.

And I think if he's there, they grab him, do you see any reason where they wouldn't?

Yeah, I do, but I see reasons why they would.

And I think, you know, that's sort of the topic of this year's draft, isn't it, that

this year in the top 10 picks, usually you're thinking, okay, what pro bowl or what perfect

tape am I going to throw on?

And this year, it's like, well, this is a good player, but this is wrong with him or this

doesn't quite fit.

And so I go back to a piece I wrote last year about Brett Beach and the chiefs and how they

have this collaborative nature when it comes to their scouts, when it comes to their coaching

staff, when it comes to him.

And he talked about one of his first weeks in the office as GM of the chiefs.

He went down to Spagnolo's office and Spag said, hey, here's what I like on my deep

it's a blind man.

Here's what I like from my linebackers and you have the measurements and you have the

size.

And we know over time that Steve's like, oh, it's sort of followed along with what that

is.

You have a long arm blank.

He loves that length up front.

And so there are things with Ruben Bain where you say the arm length, the length overall,

it's like, this doesn't fit with a Steve's Magnolo defense.

It doesn't fit with potentially what his perfect fit is.

Having said that, the things you like about Ruben Bain is he's stouting against the run.

He shows production on film.

And then he said it at the combine when I was there in Indianapolis, he said he thought

he killed the chiefs interview.

You know, you get 12 to 15 minutes with those guys in person and he seems like a highly

intelligent player.

We know Spags loves to drop those guys in coverage.

Have those guys know other people's positions.

So I think there's enough there that you can talk yourself into the pick, even if it's

not the perfect top 10 pick.

I mean, maybe Steve's Magnolo isn't banging down the door to get Ruben Bain, but I think

you look at this and say, for the team need that the chiefs have and potentially what he

can bring to them.

I think you could definitely say justification wise, hey, this is a player to bring in.

This is a player that could thrive in the chiefs defense.

Yeah, I think so too.

And we'll talk about the flip side in a little bit.

But the second pairing there, as we look at, if that happens first, you crossed off as

significant knee and I think that's smart.

When you get down to it, I know you had identified what I think Dane did in his overall seven

rounder mock with going next at wide receiver with Denzel Boston, who's a fit that I think

could work out, but I don't think that that's a great combination.

Did you have trepidation about that or is there anybody else at that position or otherwise

that you personally think might be a better fit?

So what I did with the specific specific mock draft was I kind of pushed into the first

mock draft what that would have happened or just had one go out and then got to 29 and

saw what was left basically.

And I know Boston's been mocked at the chiefs quite a bit and there's some trepidation

there about a true outside receiver.

The chiefs usually go for the speedy guys.

How much would they use this guy?

I just heard a pretty good conversation from Meena Cimes and Ben Solak on ESPN and they

were going to receivers and talking about how, you know, the kind of the conversation

between outside guys and inside guys, what did the chiefs want here and potentially,

you know, how would this fit in and their talk about somebody's outside guys was interesting

I thought, which is they can be an impact without having to be the guy.

So maybe like the Mike McIleman people out there, if you bring my Kyleman in, he's got

to get targets.

Like, you have to feed him to ball.

You have to make him a focal point of the offense.

Would the chiefs want to do that with Rishi Rice and Xavier Worthy and Taikwan Thornton?

I don't know.

Now, if you get a guy like Boston, if you put him on the outside, could he impact your

team with three or four catches of game and be a part of what you have already?

I think it's a side beam argument.

I mean, Andy, we know they bred Beach, Andy, they tend toward these shorter speedy

guys.

We know that they do that.

They love their yards after catch guys.

We know that.

You know, he's coached to you in the past and that they would figure out a way to work.

And for the chiefs, I've heard so much of the national debate about like they could use

some diversity in the room.

They could use something a little bit different.

So I'm not sold completely on Boston being the chiefs guy.

And I'm not sure what they think about him specifically in the building.

But what I would say is a player like that I could see kind of like what Meena and Benjamin

were saying like three to four catches helps you contribute and can help you in a way

where he doesn't have to have the volume.

I could definitely see him helping in that way and getting what home is a different option

than what he has right now.

I like that as well.

And spreading the ball around is a tenant of when this offense is cooking the most in

my opinion.

So it makes sense to me, but that's not the only scenario for the one that I'm actually

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Just make sure you check out Jesse over at the athletic, I know we referred to him enough

that you probably know that already, but I thought I'd say it out loud.

This is my more interesting or my preferred scenario here and I'm going to tell you why

because you hit it earlier, but this is a scenario number two, I'm just going to call

number two folks, you got to go read the article to see that.

It comes down to you take the best receiver that's there.

And I know in your mock in this scenario, you had a carnal tape that a lot of folks have

mocked to the chiefs as well.

I personally like Tyson a little bit more.

So you could swap in whoever you want there.

The wider receiver isn't really the focus of this.

It's that edges are probably gone.

And the wider receiver is from your point of view, do you think it is the next best position

group here at nine that is likely to be available?

Yeah, I do.

I mean, Ed Drupshaw and receiver, it kind of hits on both things that you want, which

is it's the premium position.

You get the potential surplus value at the top of the draft and it's also two of the positions

we know that the chiefs need the most.

And so we'll talk to Brad Beats later this week in our pre draft conversation and learn

more from him.

But there have been some whispers out there about how the chiefs potentially like Jordan

Tyson and even with the injury limitations, we know that last year, Josh Simmons, they

took a guy that had some injury question marks with him and it's turned out well so far.

But it's not going to be very likely or very often in the Patronons era that the chiefs

are going to get the crack at the number one receiver in the draft.

And this could happen this year.

So yeah, whether it's Tate, whether it's Tyson, whether it is my guy, lemon, a guy that

could fit around in some space and be able to get some yards after catch for you.

Yeah, that's an opportunity that chiefs won't have very often and potentially could have

in this particular draft.

So that really goes back to their evaluation, their scouts and we know as I just spoke

about earlier, you know, Brett Beach really trusts his guys, his lieutenants, his scouts,

they really bank on what they believe about guys.

And so their evaluations of those guys are going to be very interesting.

And I think that's here at the top.

You kind of can talk to yourself and any of those three.

And so it was Tyson, you know, wouldn't surprise me.

The question becomes, I know I'm going to jump over to another scenario, but could you

trade back and still get Tyson?

I don't know the question.

And would somebody want to jump up to that number nine spot?

I don't know that either.

I've been doing that quite a bit before raisins in a mock draft world.

So I'm 100% with you.

But what this opens up is what I think fits what you were talking about earlier the best.

When you take a look at the edge group and you want to fit that list that spags handed

to them on day three or whatever it was.

It comes down to playing the run first, playing with power, being able to be multiple in

your front and attack from any position and have decent length.

The guy that fits all of those things best in this draft class is TJ Parker.

And it's great that you hit on it because I've been banging the bell for him for quite

a while.

So was it about the fit or was he best available when you got to this point 29?

What made you go that direction?

Both.

Both.

Yeah.

You kind of zoom it through and see what's available for you.

And, you know, to me, if you kind of look at these tears like you're talking about here,

it seems like a lot of the receivers will mostly the top tier will be gone by the 29th

pick.

There'll still be some adressors left.

If you take an adressor there, then it seems like defensive tackles will still be available

at 40.

So I mean, in a perfect world, if the chief could slot this out.

If you could go receiver, adressor, you're like, again, that would fit perfectly in your

system like a Parker would do, and then get to defensive tackle at 40.

I mean, that's the way they would draw it up and take it 10 times out of 10.

The problem is with the NFL draft, you cannot control what happens in front of you.

And that's why, you know, Brad Pitt does a good job coming into the off season or going

through the off season.

I'm trying to cover his base needs so that he doesn't have to force himself into, okay,

no matter what happens.

I've got to get an adressor.

You know, the old drafting movie.

I got to have the quarterback at number whatever.

So the chiefs are flexible there and they remain flexible.

They can trade up.

They can trade down.

But yeah, probably in a perfect world, if they do like one of those receivers at the top,

we talk about one of those three if they have their eye up potentially on one of those

three guys, you can go receiver, you can get adressor, that 29.

So I kind of a sweet spot to take a guy you want and then 40.

You're looking at defensive tackle, potentially getting one of those top three guys off the board

as well.

Well, I like the sound of that last thing.

If you had your guess, which one of these scenarios is what happens?

It's a great question.

I think the chiefs more than any other year would be motivated trade back.

I think more than any other year, they will not get calls to trade up for other teams to

trade up.

I think that any other year, they would be much happier with the ninth pick.

And this year isn't potentially that.

But I think that can talk themselves into Rubin Bain for sure.

And I think the receiver thing is tricky because it depends who's available and it depends

on if there's anybody who's willing to trade back and how much you want to sort of risk

that sort of thing.

I am with you.

I would be stunned at this point.

We'll talk to Brad Beachler this week.

So we'll see if anything changes.

I would be stunned if their number nine pick is not receiver or edge rusher.

I will say that at this part of the draft and from there, you sort of go with the scenario

and you need to.

If it's not the yellow scenarios or the other crazy things I wrote in the article, the

people can check out.

But I would say Rubin May, Jr., one of those top three receivers, I would anticipate

that's going to be the first pick for the chiefs in the NFL draft of the number nine

selection.

You heard it here, folks.

You can check it out over at the Athletic Jesse.

Thanks for the time.

I appreciate it.

You guys, you have a great one.

We appreciate you as well.

We'll talk to you soon.

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