Chiefs meeting virtually with potential first-round offensive tackle
Kansas City is one of many teams reportedly interested in Oklahoma State’s Teven Jenkins.
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The Kansas City Chiefs have an interest in a player at a position of need that everybody seems to have been talking about since their loss in Super Bowl LV: offensive tackle. The Chiefs are meeting virtually with Oklahoma State tackle Teven Jenkins, according to Justin Melo of
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Oklahoma State OT Teven Jenkins is a bonafide first round pick. An incredible player that s easy to love on tape.
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Ravens 2021 Offseason: Trade/Cap Casualty OL targets
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Baltimore general manager Eric DeCosta enters the 2021 offseason in an unenviable situation. The Ravens roster has three equally critical positional needs - receiver, outside linebacker and offensive line. Addressing each is necessary to construct a complete contender before Baltimore’s generational 2018 draft class graduates to market value contracts in 2022.
At edge rusher, the cupboard is almost bare, all five outside linebackers who saw action in the postseason are scheduled to become unrestricted free agents. Receiver has remained a problem area since drops contributed to the 2019 postseason loss against Tennessee. And upgrading an offensive line that underwhelmed in the playoffs for three consecutive seasons was considered an important need even before Orlando Brown Jr. voiced his strong desire to line up at left tackle.
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are currently slated to pick 32nd in the opening round of the 2021 NFL Draft, a fact that will serve as my latest mechanism to shoehorn into every article the
other fact that the Buccaneers are the reigning NFL champions. By beating Kansas City, 31-9, in Super Bowl LV, Tampa Bay locked themselves into that 32nd and final spot in the round. You know, because the champions always pick last.
The Buccaneers have made the 32nd-overall pick in a draft before, but it wasn t a first-rounder and it didn t produce a very favorable outcome. That was way back in 1982, when the team traded its 1983 first-round pick to the Bears for their 82 second-rounder in order to grab Booker Reese, a raw defensive end project out of Bethune-Cookman. Reese was a bust and the Bucs lack of a first-round pick in 1983 compounded their quarterback problems in that era.