Draft day is coming up! The simple mystery and elegance of the whole process is astounding. Now, being a Chiefs fan, I really only care how four teams do on Saturday: KC, Denver, Oakland, and San Diego.

Al Davis is gonna draft the fastest player at whatever position he decides he needs.

Check.

San Diego only has one day-one pick, and that will either be an OT or a front seven defender.

Check.

Now what are KC and Denver gonna do? Denver’s pretty much screwed already if they think that Kyle Orton can win.

Check.

That leaves my Chiefs. Here are the four biggest possibilities, in no particular order, for KC’s pick on draft day.

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Scott Pioli had his way, and so did Todd Haley. Years back, they found out that they had some things in common. Some aligned beliefs. A pair of meshed philosophies. They went their separate ways, of course, and they were apart in the NFL for a long time. But it's not hard to believe they'd reunite, Pioli as the Chiefs' general manager and Haley as Kansas City's coach.

"You've got to understand it's been a long time," Haley said last week. "Now, here we are."

With so much history, the years and discussions behind them, it's also not hard to believe that, even three months after their paths converged again, they're already at a point that one completes the other's sentences.

"The last time we were (together) in a draft," Haley began last week, "we were..."

"... getting people pizza," Pioli finished.

They were grunts back then, low men on the New York Jets' totem pole. They'd come to learn under Bill Parcells, a man who could play both sides and teach his understudies his brand of football expertise: how to find outstanding players and how to coach them, the two great mysteries of the NFL.

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There is speculation the Kansas City Chiefs would like to get out of the No. 3 pick in this weekend's draft.

That is a very believable argument. I think the Chiefs would seriously consider moving down in the draft in an attempt to spend less money on their top pick and to get extra picks, including a second-round pick. The Chiefs traded its second-round pick to New England for quarterback Matt Cassel and linebacker Mike Vrabel.

So, if Kansas City can take advantage of teams scrambling to trade up to take USC quarterback Mark Sanchez, it would surely be open to listening. But it is not going to be easy, no matter the aggressive draft trade history of new general manager Scott Pioli. Draft trades involving high picks are just not easy to make.

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With the period for teams signing restricted free agents to offer sheets now over, restricted free agents have limited options.

Sign the one-year tenders and play for their current teams, or don’t sign the tenders and play for no one.

Chiefs receiver Jeff Webb has opted for the former.

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So a few things happened over the weekend that made me, at least for this moment, change my mind that Wake Forest linebacker Aaron Curry is the obvious, slam-dunk choice for the Chiefs to draft Saturday if they hold onto their No. 3 overall pick.

Yes, it's still possible, and Kansas City doesn't need linebackers less after the weekend and Mike Vrabel's absence from the team's voluntary minicamp. But anyway, back on topic: The Chiefs, at least to me, are a lot more likely to take an offensive tackle in that spot than they were five days ago.

In fairness, I get the feeling that the Chiefs' draft board was completed weeks ago. Things are always subject to change, but the way it works is that general manager Scott Pioli and his staff of merry men would generate a list of players, all of them ranked by how much the Chiefs want them. It was under a different regime, of course, but as it happened last year, the top overall player on the Chiefs' board was Glenn Dorsey. He fell to No. 5, and Kansas City got him, but the point was that if the Chiefs had the No. 1 overall pick, they'd determined that Dorsey was the best player out there, and they'd have taken him regardless of draft position.

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The new head coach had the players go through their first on-field workouts without names on the back of jerseys or even decals or team logos on their helmets.

"Everything I'm doing I'm trying to do with a purpose," he said Sunday at the conclusion of a voluntary three-day minicamp. "The thought process there is we're starting at ground zero. We're looking for guys who want to be Chiefs."

The three-day affair began with a lot of "chaos," Haley said, since neither the players nor the new coaching staff had ever been on the field together at the same time. But each day got progressively better, even though rain forced sessions on Saturday and Sunday indoors.

"It was good to just get back on the field. We'd been out here working hard and lifting and conditioning," he said. "We've been doing what we can. But it's nothing like being out there in the real situation and going fast."

Player evaluation was not a purpose of the three days. In fact, it was something coaches tried not to do.

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