AFC Notes: Chiefs, Jets, Steelers

Chiefs

Chiefs GM Brett Veach previously mentioned that they never thought DL BreelandĀ Speaks was going to be available to them by the time they were on the clock at No. 54 overall, which explains why they made the trade up to get him.

Breeland is an interesting guy,” Veach said, via Chiefs.com. “When you start the preā€Combine evaluation process you go into it and you know you donā€™t have a firstā€round pick, so you start to kind of, in your mind, know that the (Bradley) Chubbā€™s are going to go and the Derwin Jamesā€™ are going to go and these guys and so on and so forth. So you start to look at, alright, weā€™re sitting there at 54 and thereā€™s no movement, weā€™re a pocket of players that would make sense for us and when we started the process out we had Breeland in that thirdā€round value this guy would be exactly what weā€™re looking for. As you know, this draft wasnā€™t deep in pass rushers. So where can you find guys like that.

Breelandā€™s one of those guys that at three heā€™ll never be there by the time we pick again at three so we might have to pull the trigger early at 54. Then as the process goes on you realize heā€™s probably not going to be there at 54. Thatā€™s just the way this thing works. The old kind of deal I use is that if youā€™re here in three it goes in two, if youā€™re here in four he goes in three. So when youā€™re starting to hear that everybody has Speaks in three you know heā€™s going in two and then you realize when you start looking at the board, and I think that was a question yesterday trying to evaluate Detroit and Dallas and the Colts, theyā€™re all picking right in front of you and we just didnā€™t want to risk that because this guy can get to the quarterback.

Jets

Darryl Slater of NJ.com takes a look at some notable players for the Jets who could be on the roster bubble this summer.

Steelers

Steelers WR Antonio Brown, who turned 30 on Tuesday, says he isn’t concerned about his age and feels as though he’s in great shape at this point in his NFL career.

ā€œI donā€™tĀ pay attention to my age,ā€ Brown said, via Jeremy Fowler of ESPN. ā€œIā€™m feeling great, Iā€™m healthy and Iā€™m in great shape. I feel as long as I have that, I can continue to be productive. ā€¦Ā Life is all about challenges and working to be the best. You never want to limp away from the game.ā€

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