Heading into the 2014 offseason, the most obvious “team need” in the NFL was Kanas City’s at wide receiver. Their lineup consisted of an increasingly sluggish Dwayne Bowe, injury-prone Donnie Avery, first-round bust A.J. Jenkins and 2012 seventh-rounder Junior Hemingway.
The 2014 draft had offered one of the richest, deepest wide receiver classes in history. And so more than a few heads were scratched when the Chiefs brain trust of head coach Andy Reid and GM John Dorsey passed on receivers until the seventh round (Da’Ron Brown). They went into the season with the league’s most lackluster collection of wideouts, and it played out exactly how you thought it would.