FAU is not a guy I'm happy to see as a Chief. I think he's going to be fantastic.

He's one of a handful of guys I just didn't look into or think much about, for whatever reason. McDonald was another. I'm not even sure why. Some vague idea that they wouldn't take the 6-7-8th guys at a position, which doesn't even really make sense if it's a deep group, which of course it is.

I guess the main thing I like on the surface is that he only turned 21 in January. That's a huge positive to me, especially in the 1st round. Someone who isn't totally raw, he's produced and knows how to play, but he's also got a bunch of room to grow. We need someone who can help us repeat, but also with upside.

Fingers crossed we hit. Our Nascar package looks nice with GK-CJ-Omen-FAU.

Him being 21 is a big deal, when you compare him to some of the other guys. I'd have rather had McDonald but obviously that wasn't happening.

In 4 or 5 years he will be know as one of the best edge's in the NFL. I was surprised he was available. EMAW!

Just in time for another team to give him his bag. ;)

Aw jeez, IDK, I mean...Lees F'n Summit?!?!?

















/jk, I lke the pick.

I’m pretty good with this. I would’ve preferred a WR but a pass rusher will do too.

There’s also a part of me that felt we didn’t trade up or down so we can announce the last pick of the night. Overall, an insanely cool build up to the pick. But wonder if we could’ve at least traded back so someone else can grab a qb.

For those more knowledgeable than I, what does Chris Jones' reaction mean? Is he angry about the pick?

I mocked him to us a month ago, and others have been on him too.

I’ll weigh in here
I think FAU is a solid pick at a premium position.
Personally, I liked Foskey better as an edge prospect but I won’t argue Veach’s board.
Overall, a B-

Maybe because he and Frank Clark were tight he is upset

No I think it means he's ready to get a head of steam on. Like a bull.

It means he’s excited / ready to get to work.

Saw a Matthew Judon comparison. If that's what he is, man that would be ideal.

I like this pick. He’s athletic and long but he’s also a hard worker and relentless in pursuit. He’s going to pair with George real well IMO

Outside of the last 2 taken, were you simply picking the most exotic names on the board? :)

Yep

He is a KC boy Big Red. They will work it out.

Quite the opposite. CJ is ready to go to battle with FAU

Anything with a hyphen

Welcome to the $45M QB, $25M WR era, brah.

Good value at a position of need. Nothing not to like about the pick.

Through years of back-testing I’ve found this to be the most sound method of evaluating talent.

But seriously, no. Didn’t even realize it until I finished and looked at the names lol.

You've got 2 good smart football players at DE on rookie deals. That's nice.

Would I like to have a Micah Parsons? Sure absolutely. Those guys go super early in the draft and we're a SB contender every year.

And by the time we have to pay them, Jonesy will be done with his extension most likely, and either retiring or settling into a less expensive rotational role.

Love his post-sack celebration! Gonna be seeing a lot of it this season.

89 pressures in his last 2 years holy shit LMAO

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">There&#39;s a lot to like about Felix Anudike-Uzomah, but this note from PFF may be my favorite:<br><br>&quot;Felix is one of the best edge benders in this class, and he&#39;s going to convert a lot of pressures into sacks because of it. Of his 89 pressures the past two years, 21 ended as sacks.&quot;</p>&mdash; Matt McMullen (@KCChiefs_Matt) <a href="https://twitter.com/KCChiefs_Matt/status/1651953327393984512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Dude better keep it because it's ****ing awesome.

Value? How so? Didn't he go earlier than projected? He may be a good player, but how is it good value? Do u mean if he turns out to be good, he'll be on a rookie deal for 5 years?

I think so also.

Shout out to the dumbass with the Mic Ultra jumping directly on front of FAU as they celebrate the pic.

Dude was the Big 12 defensive player of the year and had 89 pressures over his last two seasons. His RAS was like top 100 or so in the last 25 years.

He was absolutely going to be drafted right around where he was. He didn’t go earlier than projected.

No one tell Prison Bitch that there's a black guy with a foreign name living in his town.

I'm naturally excited because I'm a K-State guy, so I actually was trying to harness that last night and view it through a neutral or even negative lens.

After some sleep, I'm realizing that that any negative feelings I had last night were more about how shitty the board was to us, and nothing about this player. That's worn off.

Now, keeping a neutral lens on this player, and there's so many things I love (aside from his alma mater):


- He's only 21
- He's still physically growing and will only get bigger/stronger, which has been a trend he's been on for the past 3 years.
- He played in less-than-ideal position (inside) often in a 3-4 front at K-State, and still produced pressures and sacks despite being the primary focus for the offense.
- I have seen him wreck a game, Derrick Thomas style. He had 6 sacks in a game to set the NFL record, but because he so violently hit the QB, the QB actually fumbled the ball forward on two of them, and so they took the sack stat away. Absurd, but yeah.

The only thing I remember being grumpy about when watching games the last two years was that sometimes he would disappear. I think a lot of that was the opposing offense scheming him out of the picture, doubling him, etc...

If he does it right, with Jones being the primary focus, I think the kid has Tamba Hali floor and Justin Houston upside in the next couple years. I'm not saying he'll get 22 sacks a year, but I think he's going to be a bad mf'er that they're gonna have to deal with.

Chiefs have had a few Nigerians recently on the DL

The Bleacher report seemed to like the Chiefs pick.

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For all of the guys that wanted McDonald....dude never could gain weight like FAU did over his college career.

Don't love it but if the pundits say it was a tough spot in the draft I forgive

Nigeria is a stronghold for Christianity in Africa. PB will be okay, Nigerians have western values. 😂

Also wasn't playing essentially a 3-tech (4-shade really) in a 3-3-5.

McDonald may not have ever been asked to add weight.

Though if it weren't something that FAU could do reasonably well, he's probably not playing DL and would've ended up playing Will...

So there hasn't been a TON of talk about it and I remember hearing the idea of it somewhere but how long does Spags have left? And if he is starting to work his way out of the coaching world, could Cullen be next in line and starting to work in some of his type of players?

Bottom line for me is that we are better at that position than we were last season. Even if he doesn't set the world on fire he's gong to be solid and I'll bet money he doesn't get arrested for having an uzi in plain sight.

Gotcha...Most every site I checked had him going in the 2nd. A couple had him 3rd. None had him 1st. :shrug:

I pobably missed some then.

Not sure what sites you were checking because there were multiple mock drafts that had him going late 1st. A couple of them to us at 31.

More of a Lee's Summit reference as that's where PB proudly resides, and apparently FAU too.

He went exactly where he should have.

He was always going in the 25-40 range.

Also, we're gonna need a new name for this guy, cuz FAU aint it. Feels like we're talking about the university.

Yeah, a lot of it had to do with him being overshadowed by the SEC, which always happens to a certain extent. Also there wasn’t a lot of separation in the 1B tier of DE anyway.

Honestly one could argue that between his production and his RAS he should have gone HIGHER.

Gotta figure out a way to just call him Uzi. He's replacing Clark...so it fits.

In Joe Cullen we trust.

About the only thing not to like about him is his slow get off. That may limit his ceiling.

But, uh, Tamba had a slow get off too when he came out of Penn state.

But that's a HOF caliber sack dance if i've ever seen one.

I like it.

In.

To my untrained eye, I see a young Tamba.

Just remember I coined that shit.

I'm going to be screaming "Uzi catches another body!" when dude gets a sack. And then my wife is going to look at me weird. So you know...normal shit.

We now take you to a live look in at Prison Bitch reading this news while waiting on his oatmeal this morning....

https://media.tenor.co/images/22bf61...68ef1cfd14/raw

McDonald and Felix were my top DL fits for KC so I'm really happy.

Now get Tyler Scott....

:clap: Love it!

I just got some insight on why Porter Jr fell. I have a friend that moved here from Bakersfield. He says that teams are moving him down their boards because he is a gangbanger. He says that NFL teams are aware of it, but it's not public information

Yeeeeeah so that sounds like bullshit.

LMAO What was it that set off your bullshit alarm? The fact that he used gangbanger?

I think Veach did the absolute best he could with FAU.

Majority of teams ahead of us were in direct competition with us for a Lombardi last year ie. Eagles, Bills, Bengals. Felt terrible for Veach after listening to the presser because it sounds like teams weren't picking up the phone when they saw him on the caller ID. And if they were, it was at an extreme unjustifiable premium.

We pretty much got dicked for being overly successful. Not to mention if you listened to Reid it sounds as if they really thought long and hard about overpaying to move up but in the end abstained.

Props to the FO for their discipline. I bet last night was real tough to swallow.

Drop the A, call him F.U. and start printing t-shirts.

Pretty much.

How many sons of pro athletes actually become "gangbangers?". And who the **** says gangbanger any more?

Roving the mean streets of whatever million dollar community his daddy put him in?

What does Bakersfield have to do with it? I don't think that gives anyone special insight into an NFL draft board.

Our front office is really dialing in and grabbing good football players at the top

Felix is an ass kicker and this feels like another Bolton, Humphrey player where you get him an not only do they have a high floor but the ceiling is high too.

Sounds more to me like your "friend from Bakersfield" thinks all black people look the same.

Joey Porter Jr. isn't even from Bakersfield. He was BORN there, but he played HS ball in PA.

So unless Joey Porter Jr was "gangbanging" back in elementary school, someone completely made some shit up.

I feel like there's something with the initials of his last name being the symbol for gold, but that's as far as I've gotten.

He looks like he is standing still in the pictures I have seen

I have some insight on why porter Jr fell. He's athletic, but just not as good as the corners who went ahead of him. He's not his dad, and the media narrative putting him in the first round was based on name recognition and not his play. NFL teams are aware of it, but the media is clueless.

Newly released tape of Joey Porter Jr

https://i.imgur.com/FhbAxRZ.gif

He fell because he doesn't have ball skills, the NFL values the ever loving shit out of CBs that get picks. He doesn't have ball production and his testing numbers aren't stupid like Deonte Banks so he fell a bit. He also isn't good in zone so now you have..

Scheme specific, lack of ball production and non elite measurables so he drops.

This is also what happens when you pick at the end of rounds...

Guys who are just good football players fall while guys with elite measurables get picked higher.

Is it actual gangbanger or Ja Morant gangbanger?

I simply can not tell you what a gigantic shit hole Bakersfield is.


Never trust anything someone says if they're from Bakersfield. To give you an idea, I think their biggest celebrity is that Eatdatpussy freak show

He still has family and connections back to Bakersfield. Maybe my friend is wrong. He's been pretty reliable when it comes to NFL information. He went to school with David Carr and is still friends with him, so a lot of his information comes from him. He didn't say whether this was from Carr or not. Just that he trusted the information. I hope that he's mistaken and the kid is just falling for other reasons. Take it for what it is. Believe it or don't. I just heard the information and thought that I would share it

Frank Gifford and the Carr brothers are from Bakersfield

EDP is more famous. Lawl. Granted, it's for ALL the wrong reasons.

BUCK OWEN