The Chiefs could be poised to take advantage of one of the deepest interior defensive line drafts in recent memory.
With Jaye Howard and Mike DeVito — two significant contributors this season — slated to become unrestricted free agents in March, it’s safe to say Chiefs could have a need there, even with a pair of good, young interior stalwarts — nose tackle Dontari Poe, 25, and defensive end Allen Bailey, 26 — under contract for 2016.
Poe, however, played through back issues this season and is set to be an unrestricted free agent in 2017. Given the Chiefs’ recent habit of using their first-picks to fortify premium positions a year ahead of potential free agent departures, you can’t count out the chances of them using the 28th overall pick this year on an interior defensive lineman — a position that happens to be unusually strong.