A few days ago former Kansas City Chief Quinten Lawrence wrote on his Facebook page that he signed with the Miami Dolphins and the team has now confirmed the move.
Lawrence was part of the Chiefs 2009 draft class, a sixth round pick.
He was originally drafted as a receiver out of McNeese State but the Chiefs ultimately moved him to defensive back. Sounds like he'll play defensive back in Miami.
Speaking of the 2009 draft class, only four of the eight remain with the team -- Tyson Jackson, Donald Washington, Jake O'Connell and Ryan Succop. Here's that entire 2009 draft class.
(H/T tomahawk44)
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And hopefully Donald isn't on the team much longer.
nateforchiefs - February 17, 2012
Or O'Connell.
Scott B. - February 17, 2012
We just re-signed O'Connell.
Championship here we come!
nateforchiefs - February 17, 2012
Soooo that was the missing link?
TheScreenName - February 17, 2012
O'Connell actually seemed to make a pretty big jump between year 1 and year 2.
Unfortunately he didn’t do much last year.
MtHammer - February 17, 2012
Agreed
I still want to add another TE, but with Moeaki, O’Connell, and Maneri all under contract, I don’t know how much room we have.
Nick Britt - February 17, 2012
Neither O'Connell or Maneri are so good that we should avoid bringing in an upgrade at the position.
MtHammer - February 17, 2012
Er, excuse me. O'Connell's not so good that we should avoid bringing in an upgrade.
If forgot that Maneri is now Gronk 2.0.
MtHammer - February 17, 2012
LOL
I hate the Maneri move. I bet that prohibits KC from drafting one or bringing in Carlson. If so, I’ll be pissed.
SCKSChief - February 17, 2012
Just because those guys signed contracts
doesn’t mean they are guaranteed to make the team. I would be surprised if both of them on on the roster come Sept
saints_chiefsfan1979 - February 17, 2012
I was hoping for Brad Cottam. He was starting to look really good
then he didnt clear physical and was waived. Oh well
TheScreenName - February 17, 2012
ya he went from 2 catches to 3 catches pretty big leap
. He is 1 of the worst Tight ends I have ever seen play. Cinder blocks for hands, couldn’t seperate from a slug if he had a 5 yard head start and can’t play special teams. Dude is worthless
saints_chiefsfan1979 - February 17, 2012
I always liked Lawrence, though...
I was hoping he could make it here. But, that’s the way it goes.
Scott B. - February 17, 2012
Belcher makes the rookie class, not the draft class, look at least a little bit better.
CharlieConway - February 17, 2012
Also when you consider we traded a second for Cassel and Vrabel
Nick Britt - February 17, 2012
Nostradamus
I said it then, and I’ll say it now. This draft class is garbage. When your best pick is the 7th round kicker, there is a problem.
dustinw82 - February 17, 2012
wow what a bad draft
Pioli’s done better since but he still has some head-scratchers like McCluster and Gabe Miller. We could’ve maybe head a real OT with one of those picks. Why he seems to mostly ignore the OL is beyond me.
Nicoloco - February 17, 2012
What is the problem with the McCluster pick? I understand the head scratching with Miller but DMC was has been pretty productive.
tomahawk44 - February 17, 2012 via mobile
Many people wanted Terrance Cody instead
Although you can argue that DexMex has had a greater impact thus far than Cody.
Nick Britt - February 17, 2012
I think the problem people have with Dex is that he could have been had later in the draft
KingChief - February 17, 2012
According to who?
He could have been the next pick after the Chiefs for all we know.
CapsLockKey - February 17, 2012
In some of the mocks I saw that year he was slotted to go in the 3rd or 4th
KingChief - February 17, 2012
See this is why I'm starting to loathe mock drafts
Fans start believing TV personalities and web bloggers are somehow smarter than NFL GMs.
CapsLockKey - February 17, 2012
These same mock drafts...
had Bryan Bulaga going to the Chiefs with the 5th pick.
CapsLockKey - February 17, 2012
they said the eagles were going to draft dex in the second
Brendon - February 17, 2012 via mobile
I decided to see if this was really true
just one pulled up (Walterfootball’s 2010 mock draft) and they have Dexter McCluster going to Green Bay in the second round.
CapsLockKey - February 17, 2012
The guy is just a role player
You don’t take that in the 2nd, especially with how many needs this team had
saints_chiefsfan1979 - February 17, 2012
Wiegs, Lilja, Asamoah, Hudson, Gaither, Mims
Tarkus - February 17, 2012
He took his talents down to South Beach?
NJChieffan16 - February 17, 2012 via mobile
nice
SFLChief - February 17, 2012
Comparatively
this draft class wasn’t that bad. Take a look at other teams and how many players they have from that class remaining on their roster(s). Sure it could be a sign of weak depth, but in a rare optimistic view I agree with commentors above who include Belcher, Cassel, and Vrabel. It could have been a lot worse. I’d predict Jackson will have a longer career as a Chief than Dorsey
KansasCityShuffle - February 17, 2012
True
It was a terrible year league wide.
I think it’s interesting that most of our good starters and star players were drafted by herm edwards and carl peterson. Flowers, Carr, Bowe, Charles, Johnson, Hali, Dorsey, and Albert.
After 3 years Pioli can hang his hat on Berry, Lewis, Jackson, Houston, Moeaki, and Breaston with a few others too early to tell. (Baldwin, and Hudson).
I’m not sure what that says other than perhaps Edwards and Peterson should get more credit than they do around here. Things look a lot different than I would have expected them to when Pioli was taking over.
just a guy - February 17, 2012 via mobile
Not really
Fact is Peterson couldn’t develop his talent or surround his players with competent coaching. At least in the latter part of his career. I don’t think the career’s of the players Carl drafted would have taken off under Herm, they needed a in-your-face approach and fire lit under their asses. Plus, Breaston shouldn’t be credited to Pioli. He was a FA, not a draft selection
KansasCityShuffle - February 17, 2012
2008 was apparently the first year that Peterson let Herm have a bigger say in the draft, and he knocked it out of the park.
Other than hitting on his first rounders in Tamba and D.J., Peterson’s last several drafts heading into 08 were terrible. It was definitely time for a change.
MtHammer - February 17, 2012
CP only had to trade arguably the best pass rusher in the league for two of those players.
CapsLockKey - February 17, 2012
No.
He traded for draft picks. He still had to use those draft picks wisely.
Tarkus - February 17, 2012
When you have two 1's, and three 3's
and you are starting in the 5 slot of each round, it’s a little easier to acquire some talent. By the way, how did those other two 3rd rounders end up?
CapsLockKey - February 17, 2012
Carr and Charles were homeruns, I'll give Herm/Carl that.
The other guys were all high picks. They should be expected to become starters. For all the people that love to rip on the Tyson Jackson pick, Dorsey isn’t any better and he was drafted just as high.
CapsLockKey - February 17, 2012
So why isn't DexMex performing on the same level as B Flowers?
Shouldn’t we expect him to be a starter?
HIV 2 Elway - February 17, 2012
Part of the problem lies with scheme/gameplanning (or lack thereof).
It worked so well to use Dex as a power back & Battle on outside runs that we just couldn’t HELP but call those plays over…& over…
Serious response: if we’d scheme to use the guy in space more, we’d see more “premium” performances from Dex. That’s when we get value from the pick—when we use the player the way the Football Gods intended him to be used.
Put it this way: A $100 German knife is a huge waste if you use it like a butter knife or worse, a flathead screwdriver. But use it to cut meat, etc? That’s value for the $.
go_saleaumua - February 17, 2012 via mobile
He is still just a role player
And you need better than that with the 36th pick
saints_chiefsfan1979 - February 17, 2012
As we discussed earlier this week: Are you evaluating the player, or the general manager?
Those are two different discussions.
Personally, I think Dex was drafted about a round too early, but STILL has the ability to justify being selected fairly high IF—and this is a big if—he’s allowed to do what he does best. Notice I said “ability.” I didn’t say “would definitely.”
And right now, seeing that he hasn’t gotten physically stronger to take the NFL pounding, it’s going to be harder for him to justify that spot. He goes down too damned easily when tackled…at the end of the day, he hasn’t developed (or been able to) become more than a role player. We’ll see if he takes a year three jump or not.
go_saleaumua - February 17, 2012
Again
When you pick a guy that high he needs to be a starter not a 3rd down back. That round was full of quality starters, yet Pioli takes not 1 , but 2 role players. Shameful
saints_chiefsfan1979 - February 17, 2012
I'm so sick of hearing about how bad this draft was when apologizing for Pioli
He had the 3rd pick in every round and he can only manage a kicker and an average D-end?? He took Alex Magee over Mike Wallace, Terrence Knighton, Louis Vasquez etc…. Magee is out of the league, do you know how big of a black eye that is against Pioli? The fact that the 3rd pick in the 3rd round is out of the NFL 2 years after he was drafted is a major embarrassment
saints_chiefsfan1979 - February 17, 2012
Or that his receiver pick might make it as a cornerback...if at all. And not in KC.
The ’09 draft was probably his biggest failure as a GM—might even be worse than hiring Haley. Coach Haley got the culture changed and imparted the kinds of offensive and defensive schemes that management desired…so there is that.
go_saleaumua - February 17, 2012
Lawerence
Joins the likes of Sammie Parker, Snoop Minnis, Kevin Robinson, Kevin Lockett, of speed receivers KC has drafted that can’t seperate from anybody. He proves , yet again, that it takes more than 4.4 speed to be a good NFL receiver
saints_chiefsfan1979 - February 17, 2012
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