Name The Kansas City Chiefs Top 10 Picks

by Joel Thorman on Oct 21, 2011 11:01 AM CDT

I'm going to pose a question here that I asked on Twitter earlier today.

ESPN's AFC West blog has a story up looking at all the top 10 picks on the Oakland Raiders roster, including LB Aaron Curry and QB Carson Palmer, both of whom were acquired in the last week or so. They make up eight top 10 picks on the Raiders' roster, which is second in the league. The Raiders even had two top 10 picks leave the team last year in QB JaMarcus Russell and G Robert Gallery.

The San Francisco 49ers are first in the league with nine top 10 picks and the Kansas City Chiefs are tied for fourth with four top 10 picks on the roster.

So my challenge to you is to name the four top 10 picks on the Chiefs. Three of them are easy because they were drafted in the last three years -- DE Glenn Dorsey (No. 5, 2008), DE Tyson Jackson (No. 3, 2009) and S Eric Berry (No. 5, 2010).

Who's the last one? It took me a minute but I got it. See if you can figure it out before looking at the comments (or the Chiefs roster).

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Was it Bowe?

by Chatch McNasty on Oct 21, 2011 11:03 AM CDT via mobile reply actions

Or DJ?

Can’t really think of who else it would be

by Chatch McNasty on Oct 21, 2011 11:04 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions

DJ was #15, or very close to that

by SCKSChief on Oct 21, 2011 12:30 PM CDT up reply actions

No, Bowe was like the 22nd pick.

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by MtHammer on Oct 21, 2011 11:05 AM CDT up reply actions

Thomas Jones, right?

by MtHammer on Oct 21, 2011 11:04 AM CDT reply actions

Correct

Took me a few minutes on that because it was so long ago.

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by Joel Thorman on Oct 21, 2011 11:05 AM CDT up reply actions

me too. literally...a few minutes going through the roster in my head and somehow left jones out for awhile

that was a good one!

Team Pioli/Haley. Decade of the Chiefs.
Team Colquitt

by SDChief on Oct 21, 2011 12:00 PM CDT up reply actions

That's what I was thinking

because of the “before you look at the roster” hint.

by SCKSChief on Oct 21, 2011 12:30 PM CDT up reply actions

Yep, 7th overall

In 2000 by the Arizona Cardinals

by Dono on Oct 21, 2011 11:06 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions

Actually

I think his left bicep was drafted 7th overall and his right bicep was drafted 8th. So, technically, Thomas Jones was drafted 7 1/2 overall.

In Pioli We Trust

by bradelli58 on Oct 21, 2011 1:05 PM CDT up reply actions

Wohoo. I got it. Took me a couple minutes of thinking and then I realized it.

You can't spell Power without Powe.

by Sudden on Oct 21, 2011 11:14 AM CDT up reply actions

Yep, easy one!

I remember when Cards fans were so excited that they’d passed on Jones in favor of Jamal Lewis. Each ended up having a solid career, of course. Probably the best recent pair of top-ten backs I can remember, since maybe James and Williams (’98?).

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by burntorangehorn on Oct 21, 2011 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions