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KC Chiefs: Is It Too Early To Label Eric Fisher A Bust

By Leigh Oleszczak

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The KC Chiefs won on Sunday afternoon against the Houston Texans, but it wasn’t all sparkles and unicorns for the team. Eric Fisher, the team’s former number one overall pick in 2013, was not in the starting lineup on Sunday.

Eric Fisher hasn’t exactly been a great draft pick for the Chiefs so far. He was taken number one overall in 2013, a draft class that has since proved to be pretty awful, and hasn’t performed to any type of potential.

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The drama going on lately with Fisher is that he didn’t start in Sunday’s game against the Texans. Fisher had suffered an ankle sprain during training camp, but he had practiced all last week leading up to the game this past weekend.

It seemed like a gimme that Fisher would indeed play, but a few short hours before the game it was announced that Fisher wouldn’t be starting on the right side in the Kansas City Chiefs’ first game of the season. Instead, Jah Reid was put in the right tackle spot, and performed quite well honestly considering he wasn’t even on the team a week ago.

There was a report from the Houston Chronicle saying that Fisher expressed he didn’t want to start in the game due to his injury. This got bad when former Chief Shaun Smith got wind of it and tweeted that he felt Fisher was saying that he didn’t feel healthy so that he didn’t have to face J.J. Watt all game long.

 On the other end of the spectrum, Andy Reid has said he isn’t sure where that report came from (at least according to Adam Teicher of ESPN),

"“I got to the point where it wasn’t getting better. So from that point, I had to make a decision and there was no time. We are talking Friday, right? I looked at the tape on Thursday … and it wasn’t right. He was trying to push through, but he was having a hard time getting his hips through and … so I said, ‘Hey, listen, we can’t put him in a position like that.’ So we went with Jah.”"

It is worth noting that Fisher did play in the game against the Texans, but this decision rubbed fans the wrong way.

It’s going to be an interesting few days leading up to the Chiefs’ Thursday night match-up concerning who starts at that right tackle spot. Reid played well against Watt and the Texans’ defensive line, but is it too soon to give up on Fisher?

He was this team’s first overall pick just two years ago, and while that draft class was one of the worst of all time, it’d be really unfortunate if the Chiefs decided to give up on him so soon. That’s the way it goes sometimes though.

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