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4 months ago: Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles (25) runs past Oakland Raiders safety Michael Huff (24) and linebacker Jon Alston (55) on a 44-yard touchdown in the second quarter during an NFL football game in Oakland, Calif., Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

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Joel and I are both in and tonight (I'm off to Ruth Chris actually) so here's a thread to chat Chiefs.

Hope everyone is doing well. What's everyone up to tonight?

The National Football Post's Aaron Wilson, who has been all over these Chiefs scouting visits, tells us that the Kansas City Chiefs were on hand in Nashville yesterday to check out Tennessee St. safety Anthony Levine:

Tennessee State safety Anthony Levine, an NFL draft sleeper on the rise, boosted his stock with an impressive Pro Day workout today.

According to a league source, Levine fastest time in the 40-yard dash was 4.43 seconds, unofficially, and he bench pressed 225 pounds 19 times.

Also spotted on the TSU campus, per our source: the New York Jets, Tennessee Titans, San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns, New York Giants, Chicago Bears, Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.

Levine is 6 ft. tall and weighs 193 pounds. Described as thickly built for someone of his height and weight, Levine is projected to go in the late rounds, if not undrafted.

Levine makes at least 10 safeties that the Chiefs are interested in drafting or signing. According to the number of reports we've come across, safety has been given the most interest by the Chiefs during this draft season.

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6 days ago: Oklahoma State punt returner Perrish Cox (16) tries to fight Florida Atlantic defensive back Carldayle Brantley (4) during the first half of a football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007.(AP Photo/Brody Schmidt)

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Good morning Chiefs fans!

I'm here to atone for my draft interest mistakes earlier this week by giving you a brand new Kansas City Chiefs draft interests table. Now, the table is sortable by each column and I've linked each player's name to the story about them on Arrowhead Pride. Click the header of a column to sort it.

There aren't any big updates this time - only a handful of new players and a couple I missed before - so this particular update is really about showing off our fancy new sortable table. Personally, I think the ability to sort it makes it 10x more interesting to look at.

Joel and I were just talking about getting a list together of all of the Pro Days the Chiefs have attended. That's the next project we'll get done ASAP. Unless, you know, someone wants to search the archived posts and get that together....

Check out who the Chiefs are interested in, after the jump.

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The Kansas City Chiefs appear to be set at running back for the 2010 season. But the Chiefs also realize Thomas Jones isn't going to be around forever and it's always good to have some insurance for the future.

That's why it's not too much of a surprise to hear Chris Steuber of Scout.com report the Chiefs are hosting a private workout for running back Dimitri Nance.

Nance, out of Arizona State, will meet the Chiefs two days before the April 15th tax deadline (and when Ms. Primetime sees the daylight again).

They will also meet with him on March 24th before his March 26th pro day.

He comes in at 5'10" and 224 pounds, which is interesting because that's pretty much the exact same weight as Chiefs 2009 draft selection Javarris Williams coming into the league.

He played in the East-West Shrine game so Chiefs defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel has seen him.

Nance is projected to go in the late rounds, if drafted at all. The Chiefs definitely aren't leaving any stone unturned. There's been quite a few players they've been linked to.

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Hello Saturday. Lovely day here in Jersey, but looks like less so for you KC folks. Here's your Kansas City Chiefs news to help keep you warm and fuzzy on the inside (or you can just drink).

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I like what Pioli is doing with the Chiefs, but I’d love it if he’d pick Berry. The problem is you can’t have everything, and my gut says that taking Berry that high would go against what Pioli wants to do.

History doesn’t suggest it either. The last safety taken with a top-five pick was nearly 20 years ago, and that was Eric Turner in the 1991 draft. So every other decade, but it almost never happens. Still, it doesn’t stop fans from wishing this time it’ll be different.

I know folks are tired of hearing about the Patriot connection, but Pioli is from that fold. When trying to figure out what he might do, especially in the draft, New England provides a good road map.

Will Chiefs stick with a building block or go for the popular pick in draft? from The Examiner

Former Patriots vice president of player personnel Scott Pioli, now the Kansas City Chiefs' general manager, used to keep a projected breakdown of compensatory draft choices on the whiteboard in his office each year. Another former Patriots executive, current Atlanta Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff, felt more comfortable trading a 2010 second-round draft choice for tight end Tony Gonzalez knowing that his team is likely to receive a high compensatory selection after cornerback Domonique Foxworth signed a four-year, $28 million contract with the Ravens last season.

A history of picking their spots from ESPN

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5 months ago: In this photo taken Oct. 4, 2009, empty seats abound in Arrowhead Stadium during an NFL football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Giants in Kansas City, Mo. The Chiefs and another Missouri team, the St. Louis Rams, are both 0-5 for the season, coming off 2-14 records last season. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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I'm out the door to South by Southwest festivities...Chat away....

I passed along word this morning that the Kansas City Chiefs would be represented at the Missouri State pro day this afternoon. What I did not pass along was that it was the Director of College Scouting Phil Emery that showed up and not just a scout.

Chris Steuber of Scout.com reports that Emery showed "considerable interest" in Clay Harbor.

Harbor is listed as a fullback on NFL Draft Scout but is more of a big tight end or h-back from what I can gather.

He's got some impressive Combine numbers showing up as a top performer in the forty yard dash, vertical jump, broad jump and twenty yard shuttle.

Also showing "considerable interest" in Harbor was Cleveland Browns tight ends coach Steve Hagan.

The full list of teams represented at the pro day, according to Steuber, are the Chicago Bears, Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers, Denver Broncos, Carolina Panthers and Green Bay Packers.

Harbor must be on the Chiefs radar if the scouting director made his way down there. That and it's a lot closer than all the other pro days.

Mushin with the pick...

It's my favorite time of year. I get to dress myself like a 70's ninja and ask, "If I was old, mean, bitter and crazy what would I do?'

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Thinking out of the box, I decided to draft a GM. Unfortunately there are none worth the #8 pick this year. That leaves only football players.

Sorry Raider Nation, I tried.

The Raiders and the Chiefs have had WAY too much in common recently. Both teams have been littered with starters who would be nice piece parts for the upper echelon NFL teams, if not practice squad guys. The KC and Oakland quarterback positions have been a mess (hopefully finally fixed for KC), and both O-Lines have been historically bad.

The biggest difference between KC and Oakland is that the KC faithful have only watched the catastrophe at Arrowhead for 3 years. Long suffering Raider fans are entering year 9. That's excellence.

After pouring over draft web sites and Raider blogs (followed by an immediate bleaching of the eyes), the general consensus is that Oakland's biggest need is QB. But Bradford is already gone to the Rams, and Al seems hell-bent on making Jamarcus Russell into a starter. Way to go Al.

That brings Oakland to their second biggest need, O-line. With the 8th pick in the 2010 AP Mock NFL draft, the Oakland Raiders select...

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There's no rumors floating. No news out there to grab onto with this one. So this is purely conjecture on my part. Still I have to wonder about a guy that we saw for years here at Arrowhead: Jimmy Wilkerson.

It's not that J-dub blew up the stat categories while he was here, so it wasn't a stupid move, per se, to watch Wilkerson get his release from the Chiefs three years ago this month. From 2003 to 2007, Wilkerson never had more than .5 (yes point five) sacks in a season or more than 24 tackles. Yet the last two years in Tampa Bay, Wilkerson had a combined 69 tackles and, more impressively, 11 sacks.

Schemes are everything in the NFL and the wrong guy quickly becomes the right guy when utilized properly. It seems that perhaps Wilkerson either needed time to grow (which many players do) or that it was a matter of not using him correctly. It was most likely a matter of both. Either way, Wilkerson's proved a couple things since he's been away.

He's visiting with the Rams today, so who's to say he'll even be available in the next hour or so. But if so, should he get a call from across the state of Missouri to talk about a second go-around in KC?

The Kansas City Chiefs are taking advantage of the local pro days around the Kansas City area. Today they will be represented at the Missouri State pro day, according to the Missouri State official site.

Two senior Bears, Clay Harbor and Mike Daniels, will headline the local talent along with former Bear Kevaughn Brown. Additional student-athletes from Southwest Baptist, Washburn and other institutions are also slated to work out.    

Other teams attending include the Saints, Falcons and Panthers.

I've been told Arrowhead Pride has a fairly solid MO State following so any of you Bears out there, let us know who can help the Chiefs.