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Mailbag, part II: How do Chiefs really feel about offensive line?

  Here is this week's non-draft edition of the Kansas City Chiefs mailbag. To ask a question for a future edition, send it to me via Twitter (@adamteicher) and tag it #ChiefsMail.

@adamteicher: They have a lot of bodies for those spots. They have six offensive linemen with significant NFL starting experience and at least a couple of developmental prospects they seem to like. As things look right now, the Chiefs will have a new starter at all of the line positions except left tackle next season. But that doesn't mean it's an improvement. We'll see exactly how the Chiefs feel about their offensive line by what they do in the draft. Picking a lineman in, say, the first three rounds is a sign they're not content with what they have there.

@adamteicher: Not yet. Sean Smith recently pleaded guilty to a charge of DUI in Kansas City, making him eligible for an NFL suspension of at least two games for a violation of the league's substance abuse policy. I wouldn't think a decision here would be a long time coming.

@adamteicher: This is in reference to Dwayne Bowe's visit to Kansas City and the funeral of a long-time Chiefs fan. That was a great gesture on Bowe's part and yet another reason I've said the image most fans have of Bowe doesn't line up with the man himself.

@adamteicher: This is in reference to the Chiefs' regular-season schedule that was released this week. The Chiefs received two guarantees about their schedule in exchange for moving a home game against the Detroit Lions to Wembley Stadium in London. The first was to play a home game the Sunday before (they will, on Oct. 25 against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Arrowhead Stadium). The other was getting their bye the week after the London trip (they will). Otherwise, they were promised nothing. My complaint about the schedule is all of the early-season road games. Arrowhead is available on three of the first four Sunday's of the season because the Kansas City Royals are on the road that weekend. But the Chiefs won't play a Sunday home game until Oct. 11, a week after the baseball season ends. Then the Chiefs get three home games over the final four weeks of the season.