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Offensive lineman Dave Szott #79 of the Kansas City Chiefs (Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images)

4. G Dave Szott, 7th round 1990 (180 overall), Penn State—There’s a good reason the 6-4, 289lb. Szott fell into the seventh round: he played both defensive tackle and guard in college.

The Chiefs liked him as a guard, and were very quickly rewarded when Szott won a starting position his rookie year. Szott made 137 starts in 11 years in Kansas City. He moved on to the Washington Redskins, and later the New York Jets, after the 2000 season.

Often overlooked during his Kansas City career due to uber-athletic guard Will Shields, Szott was an outstanding player in his own right who was named to two All-pro teams (including 1st team All-pro in 1997).

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Szott was an outstanding technician who was rarely out-of-position during his Kansas City career. At one point, some even considered him a better player than 12-time pro-bowler Shields.

Szott lived through all of the playoff heartaches of the Marty Schottenheimer era in Kansas City, and suffered, along with the rest of the team, the death of Derrick Thomas after the 1999 season.

Szott moved on in free-agency in 2001 to the Redskins, in part because the Chiefs already had a terrific young player behind him in Brian Waters.

Today, Szott spends his days trying to find unheralded gems like himself for the New York Jets, where he is the player personnel director.

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