AA Reader Mock Draft: Rams Nab Smith, Chiefs Up!

defense won last years superbowl.

Curry, DJ and vrabel leading. i think the chiefs could have on of the best LB cores in the nfl. Plus we set a record for least amount of sacks in a season, and curry would help that out.

CURRY

If they don't trade down, it's got to be Curry. He's a game changer and great leader. However, I wouldn't get upset with Monroe either. We could create a bookend situation that would anchor this line for the next 10 yrs. Curry and DJ could create a powerful mix, and I think Curry provides a huge piece of the puzzle long term.

Ideal: Trade down with CIN/JAC, who want Monroe/Crabtree, and we pick up a 2nd and 4th. We can then take Curry or A Smith. I still think there is a trade possibility with the 49ers too, who could be targeting a QB.

Ideal II: PHI trades for LJ for a 2nd and 5th rd pick, as they have plenty of picks to play with, providing an amazing compliment to Westbrook. With their 2nd rd pick, they trade up to get D Brown from CON.

If you can get the best player with the third pick in the draft... why wouldnt you get aarron curry

From Freep.com concerning Curry's workout in Detroit:

Acquiring Peterson appears to end the Lions' need for drafting an outside linebacker with the top pick. But Curry is considered versatile enough to play in the middle -- Lions coach Jim Schwartz has called him "multidimensional" -- and widely thought to be the draft's safest pick.

sorry meant to say that high in the first round

curry

doesn't anybody else remember the last time we drafted a linebacker derrick thomas.
maybe we will get lucky again

Orakpo is the pick at #3. The chiefs need someone to help out Dorsey and Hali. Boone and Tank cant do the job. Orakpo just sounds like a pro-bowlers name. Come on guys.

Sorry, but we've got to ensure Cassel has a good year (and if we keep LJ, then him too, if he's going to do anything at all this year). Having picked up Vrabel, I gotta go OT - Eugene Monroe is my vote.

CURRY

The safe pick is O line, the ballsy pick is Crabtree, but our defense is atrocious.

The gambler in me wants to say Orakpo but I gotta pice up this Indian food with a lil CURRY!

I like post #54 by lobo

"The best thing about all of this is that everyone’s pick will make our team better. A good case can be made for any and all of them. What it comes down to is what is our opinion of what is most important to the team."

I agree with this statement, just not his choice. 9 out of the last 10 games the Chiefs put up at least a decent amount of points. The problem was we couldn't stop anybody. So the most important to the team is on the defensive side of the ball. To me the best player available on the D is Curry, so that is my choice.

Curry

Woody has it on Orakpo. Be careful of the guys that can't be physically dominant and must try to figure out how to do other things than just manhandle lesser competition. As for Crabtree, well, lets just go get Torry Holt and take Curry.

Curry:

The best thing about all of this is that everyone's pick will make our team better. A good case can be made for any and all of them. What it comes down to is what is our opinion of what is most important to the team.

Monroe.

I think it's interesting that the three top teams are showing their hand. It's clear that the Chiefs will not be taking a quarterback with the trade for Cassel, it's clear that the Rams will have to take a tackle since they released Pace, and now it is clear that the Lions won't be taking Curry after they just traded for Julian Peterson.

As for what the Chiefs should do, I'm going with Curry. We are in desperate need of a quality linebacker especially if we move to the 3-4. I know that we are in desperate need of a lot of things, but I think you take the best player available no matter what, and to me that's Curry.

This team needs a leader, and a guy who can play multiple spots at linebacker...Aaron Curry is the Ray Lewis type in terms of a natural born leader, even better, curry is great in the community, and a face of the defense type.

Curry can play inside or outside in our D, and has shown he can tackle as well as a patrick willis, he hasnt been asked to blitz much, but he has all the ability to do so, and does not have problems taking on blockers.

With the trade of redding for peterson underway, it looks like Stafford/Smith then...In my opinion Curry...And if KC loads up and gets Haggins, maybe they feel they can hold off and take crabtree, I just dont believe it, but it would be better than moving a potential all pro OL to the right side when he dominated the left...

Curry-

WOODSTER

sthall20: If Orakpo is such a "beast"......with such "drive".....Why did he disappear in so many games...

Raks production consistency (or lack thereof) is best compared to Vernon Gholston...and we all know what that means...

Curry has to be the pick, Corey Mays signing means nothing. He is a roster-filler at best. He had 9 total tackles last year, this is not a guy who is going to be a difference maker for our defense.

The obvious pick. CURRY.

EUGENE MONROE WOULD BE THE SAFEST PICK OR CURRY

orakpo, he is a beast among men. everyone talks about the next jared allen, orakpo has allen's drive to the ball plus he is a beast. anyone who has seen any profiles on this guy would change their minds. I think he could work out as a OLB in a 3-4. Plus did i mention this guys a beast.

Curry.

Trading down is the way to go, however we need a partner. Oakland,Jacksonville,Indy,Dallas are all teams that would want Crabtree. Somehow I would love to get Michael Johnson in the early second

But, per the RULES I will say:

Aaron "in a hurry" Curry from The Wake.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=cr-nextyearscards031109&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

If we're lucky enough to have Curry fall to 3 for us... CURRY ALL THE WAY!

DD....

You cannot say "You read it here first" when it is stated 12 posts earlier lol....that sir, is against the rules...

Wow Double D not Curry I'm shocked.

You guys made some great arguments for a number of different guys. As I was thinking about who the Chiefs would pick at 3 given this scenario I couldn't help but think what a great position the Chiefs are in this year. In all seriousness, I'm not sure it matters who we pick assuming that the above options aren't going to flop of course and yes I realize that is a rather prodigious assumption. Whatever happens, whoever we take, I believe our Chiefs will be better than when they started the day on April 25th.

Lets say we take Curry. We get a stud linebacker and our defense is hypothetically significantly upgraded ober last year. We have another guy that can actually wrap up a tackle and make a good solid defensive play.

Ok we take Crabtree. Again, hypothetically, assuming Cassell isn't a flash in the pan (I cringe even thinking about it) we suddenly have an elit offense that will be difficult to stop. Bowe, Crabtree, charles, LJ(?), TG and Cottam, maybe Franklin or Bradley as the third receiver and Pigpen running a little wildcat every now and then, that sounds pretty good doesn't it?

And what if we take one of the best OTs available. That sounds pretty good too. Who said you can't have two LTs anchoring your line. What if Albert were to get hurt (God forbid), wouldn't it be nice to know that we have a number of highly competent guys playing on the line that allow us some flexibility?!?

And finally, what if we take Raji, Orakpo, or Everett. We had arguably (and some would say convincingly) the worst line of all time last year. Sure, McShay or Elvis might piss their pants because Pioli "reached" on a guy, how dare he! But the reality is still each of the guys as mentioned above will make our team better.

That my friends is what gets me excited about the draft and this coming football season.

So if you read all that and are just wondering who the heck my pick is, sorry I realize I just wasted a minute of your life you can never have back, so I will make my decision.

Although Pioli wants to go with Monroe because he knows the battle is won in the trenches, his hippocampus and declarative memory trump his gut. He remembers the success he had picking jared mayo last year.

Chiefs take Curry.

DE/LB Orakpo. We need the smart, tough players, remember? Put him in there with Vrabel for some OJT. We set the record for the least sacks. Thats no pressure on opposing QBs. Curry didn't get that pressure going in college good tackling or not.

Orakpo was all about pressure in the backfield. Playing in a big-time division (Big 12) for a big-time team (Texas) and putting Hiesman trophy candidates on their butts (Bradford and Harrell).

The kind of pass rusher that reminds me of Neil Smith maybe. Opponents would have to put more than a back on him.

The Chiefs #3 Pick is DE/LB Brian Orakpo from Texas.

When the blogs are counted tomarrow Curry will be our pick. I used to have him going here after talking it over with merlin a few times; however it doesn't make any sense now. We have Derrick Johnson who averages 90tackls, 3sacks, 1int. per year. Demarrio Williams averages 100 Tackles, 2sacks, 1int. per year, Mike Vrabel averages 76tackles, 6sacks, 1int. per year. That is a strong LB core. PERIOD. With (D1-5) Glenn Dorsey, (D1-20) Tamba Hali and your new Kansas City Chief at (D1-3) Brian Orakpo We will have solidfied our defense. I believe and yes you heard it here the chiefs will have a sack total of 33 if we go with this pick at the end of the 2009 season.

I would like to see the chiefs pickup with the #3 pick Brian Orakpo or BJ Raji. Orakpo is very strong and fast. Watch him on "ESPNS Profile of Orakpo" on UTUBE. He is crazy and a freak. I like it. Raji and Dorsey I like that idea also. Orakpo has a great work ethic on and off the field.

As pretty much everyone knows by now, I advocated Aaron Curry long before it was cool. Obviously my choice is ...

the chiefs are moving to 3-4 and every great 3-4 features a dominating nose tackle thus I must go with . . .

BJ Raji

You read it here first.

Curry is the best defensive player in the draft and since the Chiefs had a hard time stopping sneeze last year that's where I think they'll go. Although, Monroe is a very interesting pick, I think the defense needs more immediate help.

Personally, I hope they trade this pick and aquire more draft picks...we need all the help we can get.

#3 pick is Aaron Curry, LB, Wake Forest

Everet Brown. Offense was not that bad. Defense needs to get QB. Brown is the answer.

Meide,
Dont forget that Gholston was a project pick that had "motor" concerns coming out.

Curry is the TOTAL package. His sacks may not be high but his tackles for loss are. Curry has speed to keep up with the likes of Gates, Scheffler and he does have the burst and strength to get to the QB and most importantly he is a sure tackler.

First Pick has to be Curry. He is too good an athlete and way to good a tackler. Our biggest problem on D last year was missed tackles.

For all the people who want munroe, which is fine by me. What we would do is draft him as our new LT and move albert back to his original position of LG. They played like that in V-Tech. Move Waters to RG or trade him, whatever works. Munroe, Albert, Wade, Waters, Taylor sounds like a good line.

I would love to have Curry. But honestly I would rather trade down and get Rey Rey out of USC.

BUT since we can't trade.

Eugene Monroe OT

Bookend tackles for years to come.

Curry

Curry.

If we are going to run a 3-4 defense we have to get a real " nose tackle " and that 6-2 337 lbs. beast is B.J. Raji from Boston College.

Remember Vernon Gholston's performance at last years combine, numbers don't mean everything.

1. Kahlif Barnes 2. Jason Taylor 3. Aaron Curry

Im going with Curry. We need a playmaker on the D and i think he can be that man. He was the most impressive player at the combine and i just don't think we can pass on him.

Arron Curry!
The D needs to much work even with Mays signing

To be honest I would love any of these four:
Orakpo, Crabtree, Monroe, Curry
but...

With the third pick in the 2009 NFL draft the Chiefs pick, Michael Crabtree.

I just can't justify picking Monroe when we just took Albert and are paying him LT money. Orakpo is good, but not this high. Curry I am just not sold on and I think some of these other low-end LB signings we have made will be sufice.