Pete Sweeney
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And so they went and did it.
I mean, I think it's just a continued push to โ
to add juice to the running back room.
Um, this is a very different looking room, um, than it was last year in terms of having Isaiah Pacheco and Kareem Hunt.
I mean, I think they knew they needed to get explosive by signing a veteran, um, the best veteran, um, in their eyes and Kenneth Walker, but also continuing to add, um, you know, in, in your Mercado and now with, with Emmett Johnson and you already have Rashad Smith there.
So, um, yeah, I mean, I just think it, it, it's a greater, it's greater evidence to run that, that there, um,
they want to get back to running the football a little bit more.
You know, I tend to think the scheme is going to shift away from the RPOs to more under center runs.
And I think developing a player like Emma Johnson along the way will be good.
You know, as you, as you continue, as the years continue to turn on, we asked the scouts about Johnson's past protection and,
and the scout to us was honest about him needing a little bit of work there, so I don't know how much he'll play at the beginning here, but this was just a case of the Chiefs feeling like the talent was too great to pass up where they got him, and so now he's a member of the Chiefs.
This, this is odd to me because they end up with two receivers from Cincinnati, Cyrus Allen in the draft.
Jeff Caldwell, a bigger receiver as an undrafted free agent, but like
Again, you know, I wasn't out there going to colleges and with the prospect list and everything.
Yeah, I don't โ so I can't โ like I'm a little confused by it, you know, quite honestly.
Yeah, they feel like they should be flipped.
But, look, the Chiefs ended up with both of them, so I guess in a way it doesn't really โ
Stuyvesant had a lot of production in his first two years at Louisiana Tech.
And then he transferred to Texas A&M, had some injury issues.