Ok so I am getting a little antsy but any thoughts out there about AP fantasy football leagues this year.  I imagine that with so many more people around here this year, a single 12 team league would fill up pretty quickly.  What about 3-4, 12 team leagues with a means of then deciding the "grand winner"?  Would stink though if a bunch of people ruined things by signing up and then bailing.  Thoughts?

Like everyone else, I am kinda floored that newchief91 has taken the time to say hello around here so seems only fitting that we learn a little more about this guy:

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Some basic stats:

• 6'4  269 lb, has weighed as much as 285
• In 12 games last year for the Panthers: 48 tackles, 16 tackles for loss,  4.5 sacks (http://www.eiupanthers.com/custompages/football/2008/2008%20stats/teamcume.htm)
• 4 sacks in 2007 and 6 in 2006
• Played in all but 2 games
• Ranked 18th out of 214 DE by NFLdraftscout.com
• Top ten in career sacks (15.5) for EIU and  3rd in tackles (154)
• Recruited by Chiefs, Chargers, Green Bay, Bears, Indianapolis among others as DE/LB
• Two time all american
• Proday numbers: 29 reps, 4.81 forty (?limited by hamstring),  32" vertical 106.5 " broad jump

And now a few more pics:

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And finally a couple of links:

Official Bio page:

http://www.eiupanthers.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=688

Scouting report from Draft Countdown:

http://www.draftcountdown.com/scoutingreports/de/Pierre-Walters.php

Almost Mr. Irrelevant?

http://media.www.dennews.com/media/storage/paper309/news/2009/04/27/Sports/Football.Former.Panther.Pierre.Walters.Kansas.CityBound-3726872.shtml

Link to Bob Gretz feature at rookie minicamp

http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2009/05/11/keep_a_dream_alive/

This post is obviously just google gone wild so if anybody else has any more info, please add (?video)

No need for fancy talk.  We the undersigned, believe that Dan Holtzclaw has the right stuff to be a Kansas City Chief.  We just ask that you, the powers that be, give this guy an opportunity to prove his mettle. 

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 Folks, can't hurt to try.  This guys been cool enough to keep in touch us during this process, and I want to see him in a chief uniform!

 6'1 240

437 tackles

8 picks

4 forced fumbles

Started every game for four years

Infinite Intangibles

For me the highlight of the day was how well Missouri players did in the draft:

                                       Round                      

Jeremy Maclin                 1                    

Evander Hood                 1                     

William Moore                 2

Chase Coffman              3

Colin Brown                     5

Sulak Stryker                   6

Chase Daniels             UFA signed with Redskins

Thats got to be, if not the best, close to be best draft in Mizzou history. 

 Off topic, but anybody up for starting a petition to get Holtzclaw a tryout for the chiefs?!? (Somehow  I get a sense that Pioli doesnt think much of petitions, though)

This is not a dig, but a question (I don't pretend to understand the intricacies of this thing).  If the patriots didn't want the financial burdens of a first rounder but also didn't want to keep 2 QBs at that salary cap space, then what was the point of franchising cassel?  Not like it matters but this is how it seems to have gone done:

1) Patriots franchises Cassel thinking someone is going to offer the moon

2)  When they don't get great initial offers they panic a bit

3) Smelling the panic, Pioli  lowballs

4)  They accept the offer.  At the last minute when other teams realize this is going down the put in sweeter bids, but its too late. 

On another note what was the point (from the patriots perspective) of giving Vrabel essentially for free?  I know that they wanted to free up cap space, but would the chiefs really have turned down a straight up trade of  #34 for Cassel?  They didn't even ask for a 7th rounder, conditional pick or something?  Why not just cut the guy and let him go where he wants?

Its all moot, I know, but would have loved to be a fly on the wall for these negotiations.

Yeah I know getting waaay ahead of ourselves but one fun part of the mocks is looking at folks projected for late first rounders and thinking about who might slip into the second.  I've seen tyson jackson mentioned a lot here but there would seem to be a "double LSU jinx bust" possibilty. (NO, I think its way to early to label dorsey a bust, but you catch the drift.)  Another name that would seem to be a good fit here is clint sintim:

What do you think?

http://www.fftoolbox.com/nfl_draft/profile_display.cfm?Prospect_ID=1807

http://pit.scout.com/2/832696.html

Mainly a lurker here but a quick thanks to the mods for making this my one "stop shop" for all things chiefs.  The amount of original content that you guys have put out this year is pretty impressive.  Breaking out those stats takes time, I know.  Keep up the good work for 2009.  If this is what you guys are able to do in a "down" chiefs year, I can only imagine what will come when this trainwreck finally turns around!