With their 5th round pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, the Kansas City Chiefs selected cornerback DeQuan Menzie from the University of Alabama.
Menzie (5’10″, 198) was named a first-team All-American by the American Football Coaches Association in 2011, when he recorded 37 tackles, broke up 11 passes, and intercepted one pass for the Crimson Tide.
Menzie is a talented and versatile corner that can lock down on the outside and also move inside to the nickel back with equal ability.
Thought we should have picked Tank Carder here as we could use some competition at ILB. How many Nickel backs, Dime backs and corners with return ability can one team have???
Comment by DC Chief — April 29, 2012 @ 5:20 am
I like getting a player from Alabama. That Defense was awesome this year. He was all-american by coaches. I think I like this one. he should make for a good competition in the defensive backfield this year. I agree we need some help at ILB, I was hoping we would get Luechy, but he didn’t make it to the 11th pick. hopefully we’ll get a good free agent ILB.
Comment by Jeff in VA — April 29, 2012 @ 3:07 pm
To Jeff, a solid point as usual. I like most players from Bama and the SEC in general as well. However, how awesome would it have been if we took Dre Kirkpatrick (Bama) in the 1st round. We could have still taken Jeff Allen in the 2nd, Ta’amu in the 3rd (much more polished NT and available), still Stephenson in the 4th or Massie (Massie was available and Stephenson was a 4th round grade) than Tank Carder in the 5th. That would have been an awesome draft. Finally, I did like the RB in the 6th.
Comment by DC Chief — April 29, 2012 @ 11:00 pm