Kansas City Chiefs NFL Draft Busts: No. 10 Junior Siavii

by Chris Thorman on Apr 26, 2011 7:27 AM CDT in 2011 NFL Draft

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The Kansas City Chiefs' 2004 NFL draft will not go down in history as one of the franchise's greatest two days. Besides picking up Jared Allen in the fourth round that year, the Kansas City Chiefs draft picks all under performed in their careers. Kris Wilson, Keyaron Fox and Samie Parker (maybe not Parker so much) never really became big time contributors for KC.

The first draft pick the Chiefs made in the 2004 draft was No. 36 overall - Junior Siavii.

Coming out of Oregon, the 6'5", 355 pound Siavii was considered a reach by most people. He was projected as a 3-4 round pick, which made the Chiefs' selection of Siavii early in the second round a surprise. Even back in 2004, in the early days after the draft, people were pegging Siavvi and the Chiefs' 2004 draft class as mediocre:

The Chiefs wound up reaching for Oregon DT Junior Siavii at No. 36. At 6-foot-4 and 360 pounds, Siavii has the size Kansas City needs to fill its porous run defense, but he was rated as a fifth-round prospect. He doesn't have enough experience to make a major contribution in 2004.

Claims like these were confirmed by Siavii during his playing days. He only played two seasons in Kansas City, starting zero games and only garnering one sack. He's hung around the league as a fringe defensive linemen, playing even today for the Seattle Seahawks.

For Chiefs head coach Dick Vermeil, Siavii's failure pretty much confirmed that he had no idea what he was doing when it came to drafting defense. The defensive picks that did turn out to be good players turned out to be good on other teams - Kawika Mitchell, Keyaron Fox and Jimmy WIlkerson to name a few.

If it wasn't for Ryan Sims, Junior Siavii would be Dick Vermeil's greatest NFL draft bust.

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The sad part is that Mitchell, Fox, and Wilson have actually been solid players for other teams.. maybe not great but solid. Mitchell has been a starter for a few teams, Fox is a hell of a ST player for the Steelers and Wilson wasn’t all that bad with San Diego.

Bleed Chiefs

by tomahawk44 on Apr 26, 2011 7:38 AM CDT reply actions

Good draft picks

Poor coaching. Peterson did his job scouting, Vermeil didn’t do his job developing

#91 - Pay The Man & Play The Man

by KansasCityShuffle on Apr 26, 2011 10:41 AM CDT up reply actions

Who wasn't all that bad with what?

I dunno what Kris Wilson you were watching, but I thought he was the same out west as he was in KC: A stiff. As I’ve said on other posts, an H-back who can walk & breathe at the same time has KW-level talent. Sorry tomahawk, I have to disagree here.

"You've only got 10 fingers to stick in the dike. Is there a breaking point that pushes you over the edge?...Where's the limit?"

-Marty Schottenheimer

by go_saleaumua on Apr 26, 2011 5:30 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions

i think KC had their sites set on Igor Olshansky

and when Marty grabbed him the pick before, KC panicked and went with Siavii…which kinda shows that Carl and Dick really didn’t know what they were doing then…or maybe they really, really, really, liked Siavii.

by bansky on Apr 26, 2011 7:55 AM CDT reply actions

Yuck

by dwil2009 on Apr 26, 2011 8:14 AM CDT reply actions

Now the other side of the Carl Peterson coin

Thanks for the inspiration, Bajah!

When some kid says that a modern day player is their "hero", tell them about Joe, and what a real hero is.

by RememberDelaney37 on Apr 26, 2011 8:31 AM CDT via mobile reply actions

Difficult choices

So many bad ones to choose from. Trezelle, Ethan Horton, Jozwiak, Trosch, Fuller, Blackledge, Sims…there’s 7 bad one right there. Certainly more than 10 possible entries.. And so many times when we really needed to add a good player…..and then the choice stunk.

by HowSweetItIs on Apr 26, 2011 9:33 AM CDT reply actions

Junior's # 10 ?

I don’t know if I will be able to stomach this whole list.

"If ifs mattered, everyone would be undefeated." Enite

by Enite on Apr 26, 2011 2:30 PM CDT reply actions

^^^^THIS^^^^^

Wow did he suck. 4th or 5th round talent. This was a serious reach that produced little. I tgets worse? Blackledge has to be #1. Could have had Marino . . . ouch

by Moeaki can Fly on Apr 27, 2011 5:02 PM CDT up reply actions