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Chiefs at the Trade Deadline 2014

Posted on July 10, 2010 at 03:40 PM.

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From the Office of the General Manager
Kansas City Chiefs - 2014

With the trade deadline looming we considered a number of options to improve our team.

I would like to announce that The Chiefs have traded FB Ovie Mughelli and our 7th Pick in the up-coming 2015 draft to the Cincinnati Bengals for their 3rd, 4th and 5th Picks.

I would like to thank Ovie for some great years in Kansas City. Ovie was acquired in 2009 as one of the key players in a trade that sent veteran LOLB Mike Vrabel to the Atlanta Falcons. In fact that was one of my first moves as the new Chiefs GM and he has been a fixture in the backfield since that time.

When I was talking with the Bengals they expressed interest and needed a good FB. We simply felt that we had a lot of depth at the FB position with three on the roster and this trade gave up the most flexibility with which to build for the future. I wish Ovie nothing nut success in his new environment!

Certainly the moves we made last week on the depth chart, just prior to our Week 5 game, were very helpful in strengthening out defensive line. We also looked at ways to improve our MLB situation, but feel we have a real talent in MLB Walker, and are still getting excellent performance from MLB D.Johnson, so we didn't want to tinker for the sake of it and bring in someone who could very well be redundant this time next season.

We also looked at options of strengthening our O-Line, but again feel we have a couple of top young linemen in RT Burden and RT Waters and feel they will progress nicely the rest of this year and any weakness at that position will disappear by next season.

Other than that, I feel we are very strong and ready to go the distance in the AFC West and hopefully deep into the playoffs this year!