Terek Hill, Kansas City Chiefs. (Photo by Jimmy Squire/Getty Images)
For their shot on Jameson Williams, the Kansas City Chiefs will need to hit the bar and pick the 29th and 30th packages together to be in a position to replace Tyreek Hill at the wide receiver.
Although the Kansas City Chiefs are still able to draft a wide receiver in the latter part of the first round, they can also pack No. 29 and No. 30 for the transition and draft Jameson Williams to replace Terek Hill.
In an MMQB column by Albert Breer Prior to the 2022 NFL Draft, he wrote that if the Chiefs were to replace Hill in the draft, “Jason Williams would be the obvious guy who would even have a chance to be a one-to-one exchange in that regard.” While wondering if the Chiefs would swing to get such fences, Kansas City once moved to the draft board to take Patrick Mahomes.
So what makes Williams the man chiefs need to target if they want to trade on Thursday?
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No matter how much that affects Williams in the draft and later professionally, he has a chance to be the poster child for all that’s cool about the college transition portal. Williams could have stayed at Ohio State and played third wheel for Chris Olaf and Garrett Wilson, but by moving to Alabama, he assured himself the life-changing money as a first-round lock-up.
Even if he tore his ACL during a College Football Playoff game at Crimson Tide, Williams put enough on the bar to make sure that any team that took it would get an absolute stud. However, it will take more than the Miami Dolphins’ No. 29 pick via the San Francisco 49ers and the Chiefs’ No. 30 pick to be in a position to forge a broad future for Williams’ elite caliber.
The Chiefs will likely need to reach their late teens and likely be in the top half of the first round to be in a position to land on Williams. While the pressure will be high for him to perform in his first year with Kansas City, it could be the 2022 edition of what Ja’Marr Chase was for the 2021 Cincinnati Bengals. Keep in mind that Chase did not play football in the 2020 season.
So, if the chiefs want to replace Hill-Williams, they’d better take their time.
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