Arrowheadlines: Chiefs should focus on defense this draft

The latest

Chiefs offseason review: These 5 areas still need help | The Kansas City Star

1. Defensive line

The Chiefs re-signed Jarvis Jenkins and tendered Rakeem Nunez-Roches. They also signed Grandview High product Xavier Williams to bolster the run defense as their best interior run stopper, Bennie Logan, left via free agency. Throw those guys in the mix with established starters Chris Jones and Allen Bailey, and you can live with this group. But Veach is trying to build a dominant unit up front, and with Bailey, Williams and Nunez-Roches all slated to hit free agency after this season, it would be a major surprise if the Chiefs didn't invest a premium draft pick in a potential three-down talent.

'Lot of juice, lot of speed': Mahomes, Hunt lead Chiefs' offensive awakening | Sporting News

When he wasn't working toward becoming the league's leading rusher last year, Kareem Hunt built a strong off-field bond with Mahomes. Hunt said that included simulated trips to the links "whenever we’re bored and just have down time."

"He always thinks he can beat me in Top Golf,” a smiling Hunt told Sporting News last week while being honored at the 2018 Senior Bowl Hall of Fame banquet. "He won most of the time. But, you know, I got a couple wins in there.”

Why this draft needs to be a defensive one for the Kansas City Chiefs | ESPN

Kansas City’s defense, statistically one of the worst in the NFL last season, doesn’t just need to get better. It needs to get younger, too.

That’s why this year’s draft has to have a decidedly defensive flavor for the Chiefs.

What Dorsey's work in KC says about his epic opportunity in CLE I IndeOnline

Reid and the Chiefs never detailed why Dorsey was fired, and Dorsey himself volunteers no insight on what happened.

“Who knows?” he said. “I have had ample enough time to figure it out. I have sat there and tried to figure it out.

“In the NFL, things change every day. I was very proud of my time in Kansas City. I thought we acquired a heck of a roster ... I would like to say a top-five roster in terms of talent.”

Teams with most, least 2018 NFL draft capital - Cleveland Browns have most valuable picks | ESPN

Chiefs (team) 40.8 (original capital + comp) 22 (rank) 30.8 (actual capital) 26 (rank) -10.0 (difference) 25 (rank)

Around the league

Los Angeles Rams add Ndamukong Suh to defense that dares QBs to throw | ESPN

On one side it's Marcus Peters, who has 19 interceptions since he came into the league in 2015. No man has more. On the other side it's Aqib Talib. He has 34 interceptions since he came into the league in 2008, and only one man (Charles Woodson) has more. Talib and Peters are two of the game's best ball hawks, and so is the guy playing behind them.

Michael Bennett Appears in Court and His Lawyer Denies Charges | The New York Times

Michael Bennett, the Pro Bowl defensive end who recently was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles, surrendered to the authorities in Houston on Monday on a charge that he injured a woman in a wheelchair while trying to get onto the field after Super Bowl LI.

Don't expect Giants to deal Odell Beckham as public negotiation starts | USA Today

Beckham, looking to rebound from the fractured ankle that ruined his 2017 season, is heading into the final year of his rookie deal. With at least 90 catches, 1,300 yards, 10 TDs and 57 magnificent highlight moments in each of his first three NFL seasons, he sees his value as worthy of “quarterback money.” That likely means something in the $20 million-plus range that would topple the $17 million annual average that Brown currently commands as the league’s top-paid wideout.

The NFL appears poised and ready for the 'Josh McDaniels rule' | New England Patriots

“I’ve been through it and it was just three years ago with Dan Quinn,’’ Rich McKay, Falcons team president, said Monday, on the first full day of the league’s annual meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. “As much as it being about Josh’s situation (this year), it’s about the clubs, too.

“In Atlanta, when we were in that situation with Dan, we were exposed. The reason we were exposed is because we had pulled out of the coaching search, we shut everything down. I stopped calling people, assistant coaches are getting hired everywhere. So you’re all in (on a guy), but in reality you have a promise. That’s what you have.’’

NFL player protests: League split over how to address the issue | SB Nation

One high-ranking NFL official told me on Monday that these owners meetings and subsequent ones are all about “moving the needle” toward no national anthem protests by the players. About getting there, in some circles among them, “come hell or high water.”

Johnny Manziel to throw at Texas A&M pro day | NFL.com

The ex-Cleveland Browns quarterback will throw Tuesday at College Station during Texas A&M's pro day, the university confirmed to NFL.com.

In case you missed it at Arrowhead Pride

An in-depth breakdown of KC Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes’ only career start

If Reid based last year’s offense around what Smith was successful at in college, and then based Week 17 around what Mahomes was successful at in college... doesn’t that mean Week 17 could act as a “preview” of sorts, showing us what the adjustments to the offense (and I promise you there will be some) will be in 2018?

I think it might.

Chiefs’ Andy Reid is dressed for the NFL owners meetings this week

The annual NFL owners meetings are going on in Orlando this week and if you know anything about us here at Arrowhead Pride then you know this is a big week.

Could the addition of Chiefs’ Watkins mean more kick returns for Hill?

Are we dealing with a No. 1 and No. 1a situation? And if so, could the Chiefs allow Hill to get back to some of the kick-return duties we saw during his rookie season in 2016?