There are things to love and hate about every prospect in the 2020 NFL Draft. As the Kansas City Chiefs prepare for the draft, they’ve weighed the positives and negatives of each prospect and adjusted their draft board accordingly.
Below you’ll find three players that fit the Chiefs and have been connected to them often, but each of those players might leave you a bit conflicted about whether Kansas City should consider selecting them in the draft:
Wisconsin RB Jonathan Taylor
Love: Production
Taylor is easily the most productive running back in this draft class. In three years at Wisconsin, he carried the ball 926 times for 6,174 yards and 50 rushing touchdowns. He also caught 42 passes for 407 yards and five touchdowns to go with it. Add that type of production to the Kansas City Chiefs offense and I’m not sure there’s a team in the league that could slow it down.
Hate: Fumbles
The big concern with Taylor is that he has trouble hanging onto the football. Between 2017-2019 Taylor had 18 total fumbles, putting the ball on the ground at a rate of once every 52 carries. That’s more than a 50% increase to the average in the NFL during the 2019 season. LeSean McCoy, a beloved player by head coach Andy Reid, got sent to the doghouse over putting the ball on the ground twice in 2019. I don’t see how the Chiefs could possibly bring a rookie in with these types of fumbling issues.