2020-21 Chiefs Draft

Chiefs draft and the NFL season looking forward.

With the caveat that there may be no season to look forward to at all!

This may well turn out to be the oddest season ever. With the coronavirus overseeing all efforts, predicting what may or may not happen to the Chiefs in 2020 could end up being more difficult than picking the winner of the Grand National - hang on, that will be easy, there isn't one this year because of the coronavirus!

Everything I see, hear or read confirms that the NFL powers that be are determined to produce some sort of season this year. They will move heaven and earth to play the 256 games of a regular NFL season. The how is not understood or even likely to be decided until so many factors which at present are complete unknowns become much clearer.

Still we proceed as if the season will be played, or we all just do a Rip Van Winkle, wake up in Jan 2021 and pretend it was all a bad dream.

The Chief's draft was interesting to say the least. Picking last in round one they very unexpectedly grabbed a running back from LSU, Clyde Edwards-Hillaire. All the pundits said this as a major cock-up. Nobody picks a running back in round one, they are a dime a dozen and even Kareem Hunt was a a third round pick. So, what's the deal? The tribe have 20 of the 2019 Super Bowl winning team returning. They grab what they feel is the back which best fits their scheme and bugger the pundits! Result? The Chiefs offence now looks almost impossible to stop. Edwards-Hillaire can catch the ball on the swing pattern and block.  What's not to like?  The pundits now think it's a genius pick.

The rest of the draft looks solid, though not addressing the corner-back position until round six again has those supposedly in the know gasping for air. Truth is what the draft was supposed to provide was solid football players who can be developed. If only Edwards-Hillaire is on the field for the opening set of downs this year, that's not a problem. If any of the others make the 53 man roster and contribute great! If not? Not.

Much has been made of how the rest of the league will be playing catch up with the Chiefs already way ahead. Why? Because with a short pre-season every other team is at a big disadvantage. They will have to get better quickly or just stand on their side-line and gawp as the red wave breaks over their heads and all NFL stadia need larger scoreboards to accommodate the points racked up by the Big Red.

We are a long way from another Super Bowl appearance in February 2021,and talk of a Chiefs dynasty is premature, but we can live in hope and, for the first time in 50 years, expectation.

Those genii at Pro Football Talk, Florio and Simms, are convinced that there will be a season. The NFL in conjunction with the politicians will make sure that NFL football happens in 2020. They may be right – only time will tell.

Until then the Chiefs are best placed to do the improbable – if not the impossible - and repeat as Super Bowl Champions in Feb 2021. Chop til you drop!