Chiefs starting season with former No. 1 pick Eric Fisher at right tackle – CBSSports.com

When you draft someone No. 1 overall — in any year — you’re hoping that person locks down a position for several years. When you draft a tackle that high, you hope it’s not for the right tackle position. For the Chiefs, it might be.

According to the Kansas City Star, 2013 No. 1 overall pick Eric Fisher is starting the year on the right side.

On the left side is Donald Stephenson, drafted by the Chiefs in the third round of the 2012 draft.

Offensive line is weird when it comes to high draft picks. Taking a lineman is seen as a “safe” pick, but the reality is the position hasn’t been guaranteed to be safe by any stretch.

Instead, there’s lower risk of the public perceiving a pick as a “bust” out of the gates because of the low amount of statistics for offensive lineman when it comes to the NFL. You start 16 games and you look like someone who made an impact.

Even if sometimes you’re starting 16 games on the right side instead of the left where the team planned to plug you in when they took you at the top of the draft.

Fisher started 16 games at left tackle for the Chiefs in 2014, but he was hardly the success story they hoped to have, ranking as the 72nd-best tackle in the league according to Pro Football Focus.

Add in Fisher getting beat out for the starting left spot by a Stephenson and you have the makings for what is quickly becoming a bust-ish pick from the Chiefs in 2013.

Eric Fisher hasn’t worked out at left tackle in Kansas City. (USATSI)

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