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Will Shields is a guy when you first come into the league, he doesn’t say much,” Johnson said. “He’s about doing it, about action. I respect that to this day. I didn’t talk to him much my first two years. But you watch him a lot (because) he’s trying to teach you how to be a pro.

“He was the ideal, dictionary guy of being a pro. He was not a yo-yo guy at all. He was consistent. He played at a high level. He was focused at all times. He was an accountable guy.”

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Shields was Kansas City’s top pick in 1993, but only by default. With future Pro Football Hall of Famers like Montana and RB Marcus Allen surrounding him, Shields’ arrival in Kansas City went largely overlooked.

“That was a great thing because when I first came in I wasn’t ready,” Shields said. “The first day I came to training camp and put on the pads, I was still behind both mentally and physically.

“I think it was a good thing that our team had all of those big-time athletes because it showed me the way to become a better player.”

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Nobody drafted Edwards and he didn’t forget. In a position of power two decades later, Edwards refused to automatically cross players off the board. When one of his colleagues called a player a “bad guy” for getting caught smoking marijuana, Edwards scowled.

“I looked at him and said, ‘Marijuana? That makes him a bad guy? Ehh, I don’t know about that,’ ” Edwards said. “I know a lot of guys that smoke up now. That doesn’t make him a bad guy. A guy smoked the reefer or drank two six-packs of beer, to me, what’s the difference?

“Every guy is different. You can’t put them all in the same box. You really can’t.”

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