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Count It Down: The Top Five Least Valuable Kansas City Chiefs in 2007

I told you not to step out of my tolerance box!

Counting down the Kansas City Chiefs who did the least this season while taking up an active roster spot.

#5 Jason Dunn

2007 was Dunn's eleventh season and his age noticeably showed. Once a fantastic blocking tight end, Jason Dunn's skills dropped off significantly. Blocking tight ends don't exactly have a lot of stats so you'd have to have seen the Chiefs play this year to see how poorly Dunn played. He missed blocks, was slow moving and generally just looked old out there. Thanks for the memories Jason. I can't imagine he's here next year.

#4 Boomer Grigsby

Everyone's favorite linebacker turned fullback, Boomer's greatest accomplishments came on special teams this season. Other than the occasional ST tackle, I'm not sure why he's still on this team. His transition to fullback has been curious at best and his lack of playing time, even through the last game, was sparse. Grigsby lacks the size to be a proper fullback and frankly doesn't have many other skills worthy of keeping him around in '08. His friendship with Jared Allen may have played a small part in keeping him around through the season but that won't be enough to keep him around in 2008.

#3 Kris Wilson

Do I just not get why Kris Wilson is on this team? Is he making plays that I'm just not seeing? Wilson is slow, has average hands and doesn't fit into our offense. The guy didn't make a single play this season and seemingly will never develop beyond his current talent level. Throw in his two fumbles this year and I'm still wondering why he gets playing time.

#2 Chris Terry

I bent the rules a bit by including Chris Terry because he was indeed cut by the Chiefs in December. When you're an offensive linemen who can't block, you end up on this list. The worst player on a terrible offensive line, Terry's play was so atrocious the Chiefs wouldn't even keep him around for the last few games.

A third pick in the second round in 1999, Terry is done playing football.

#1 Eddie Drummond

What can we say about Eddie Drummond that hasn't already been said this season? Drummond is part of the club that is somehow able to ride one Pro Bowl appearence to a career of mediocrity on other teams. He apparently flipped off the home crowd against the Denver Broncos after a weak punt return. So he's a terrible returner who decides to piss off the fans? Good decision making Drummond. That was about as sound as the decisions you made on your returns.

The true test of the least valuable player is to ask if you can name one good play they made the entire season. Can't think of one for Eddie Drummond? Me either.

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Spot on, Chris
Grigsby is beyond worthless.  I'm surprised Parker didn't make it into your top 5.

by Bill Grigsbys Cirrhosis on Jan 3, 2008 10:38 AM CST   0 recs

Who would
you have taken out of my top five to include Parker?

I think people need to accept Parker for what he is - a no. 3 receiver at best. We keep holding him to this high standard when he was never intended to be used as a no. 1.

I don't particularly like the guy but he's still used as the Chiefs whipping boy too much.

by Chris on Jan 3, 2008 11:03 AM CST to parent up   0 recs

I guess...
Wilson, just because he's old rather than worthless.  I'm also more bitter than most when it comes to Parker, being a Ducks fan.

by Bill Grigsbys Cirrhosis on Jan 3, 2008 11:58 AM CST to parent up   0 recs

You can expand...
You could have made this list with about 20-30 players, in any particular order.
Steven

by Steven on Jan 3, 2008 10:39 AM CST   0 recs

Yeah I know
I tried to stick with mostly starters though.

by Chris on Jan 3, 2008 11:05 AM CST to parent up   0 recs

Tough call, but
I am toying with the recommendation of replacing Boomer with Kendrell Bell.

Even when Bell wasn't on the field (as if anyone could tell) he still was hurting the team due to his salary.

Boomer was not that useful, but he had a low salary and truly tries to do his best all the time.

Bell just makes me cry in my sleep.  At least Boomer is entertaining and was someone to root for.

by DThomasReigns on Jan 3, 2008 11:14 AM CST   0 recs

Agree
Boomer blocked more than Bell tackled and if you take salary into consideration, we probably payed Bell 10 times more per tackle than we paid Boomer per block. a humorous aside - when we let Ryan Sims go, Jabba had an article in the Star that figured out that in Sims career here we paid him something well over $1 million per sack...from Wikipedia -  "During his tenure with Kansas City, Sims played in a total of 74 games and notched 54 tackles, 5 sacks, and 1 interception."

by PVChiefsfan on Jan 3, 2008 11:27 AM CST to parent up   0 recs

No Ty Law or Pat Surtain?!?!
Odd...
when Law or Surtain miss a tackle, drink. when Law or Surtain fall down, drink twice.

by geekfather on Jan 3, 2008 3:30 PM CST   0 recs

No
because even though they blew some big plays, they made some big plays too.  The guys here didn't make any plays.

by PVChiefsfan on Jan 4, 2008 7:02 AM CST to parent up   0 recs

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