If someone told you two undrafted players and a 3rd rounder was to be the interior of your offensive line you'd probably hesitate. Well that's exactly what KC is bringing to the table this season (pending on whether the Brian Waters situation escalates to a point where he's traded), yet the only starter on the interior of the line that fans grow wary of is Rudy Niswanger, the undrafted guard out of LSU (aka the Chiefs breeding program). I can give you a few reasons why you should believe Niswanger may potentially be the Center for the Chiefs for a very long time.

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We definitely have enough working against Niswanger heading into the season, the obvious being that we signed former Bengals failed center Eric Ghiaciuc and that Niswanger was 25th in least sacks given up amongst NFL centers (Ghiaciuc was 27th) and our inside running game never got running efficiently last season. We fail to realize however what Pioli hasn't done to dethrone Niswanger. We passed up on A.Q Shipley in every round of the draft and never even made an attempt to make a bid for free agent center talents such as Jason Brown, Jeff Saturday, and Matt Birk. Also we fail to take into account how big the uphill climb was for Niswanger in 08'. 

I'm of the belief that the easiest way to build a solid offensive line is one of two ways

1. You acquire bookend tackles and a solid center with serviceable guards that can push pressure to their neighbors. 

2. You acquire Pro Bowl Guards who make your tackles and center look better by taking pressure off of them. 

Either way your linemen all rely on each other and you can never have two ineffective linemen playing next to each other or else your going to have big problems. Evidenced by our dismal line play in 08' that saw three linemen playing a position for the first time. The closest thing we had to a starting RG was Adrian Jones who was let go to free agency. This is very telling considering how well Pioli's offensive lines performed in New England and how cheap Jones would have come.

All this and take into account that Niswanger was attempting a position change under a dismal offensive line coach. I blame it on the coach because by all accounts Rudy was portrayed as a very smart football player yet he seemed lost in the secondary and played with his head down at the line.

The Pioli regime fixed these problems by bringing in Mike Goff who in San Diego was vital to the development of the best center in the AFC if not the league in Nick Hardwick. Barring a trade Brian Waters will still be playing on Rudy's left hand. With excellent guards on each side Rudy will have a lot less pressure on the inside and will be given a chance to develop into a starting Center under offensive line ace Bill Muir who was brought in this season. Niswanger holds all the right tools to develop into a good run blocker and an above average pass blocker much like Hardwick in San Diego.