Saturday, February 26, 2000
Chiefs no longer interested in Dillon
Other clubs may want Bengals RB
BY GEOFF HOBSON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
INDIANAPOLIS — The Kansas City Chiefs have indicated to the Bengals they don't plan to make an offer to running back Corey Dillon, an NFL source said Friday.
But Dillon still has interest from other teams in his bid to get out of Cincinnati. His agent expects a visit next week to the Seahawks in Dillon's hometown of Seattle, and Marvin Demoff sees trips to Cleveland and Baltimore in the future.
“The Chiefs are sending mixed signals, but it's very early for teams to start offering,” Demoff said of the re stricted free agency period ending April 10. “Teams wait to get closer to the draft to get a better idea for players they can get at the same position.”
Chiefs President Carl Peterson said the team won't start deciding what to do about Dillon until the club returns Tuesday to Kansas City from here at the NFL scouting combine. But Peterson admitted the compensation of first- and third-round draft picks to sign Dillon has him buckling.
“We have to go evaluate the backs in the draft and our own backs, so there's still things we have to do,” Peterson said. “I'm not in the habit of giving away first-round picks. The only time I've done it here in my 11 years was for some guy named Joe.”
Peterson referred to his 1993 trade that brought Hall-of-Fame quarterback Joe Montana to the Chiefs from San Francisco. Although the Browns continue to show interest in Dillon, Montana's old 49er receiver, Dwight Clark, now Cleveland's director of football operations, wants no part of the compensation. He has the first pick in the draft for the second straight year.
“I just don't see us giving up the first-round pick given where we are,” Clark said.
The Rams said they had no knowledge of the trade winds racing across the combine Friday that had them signing Dillon and then trading him to Cleveland. Bengals President Mike Brown doubts the Chiefs will go the way the Jets did in 1998, when the Patriots didn't match a huge contract for running back Curtis Martin that Martin could void after one year and blocked New England from giving him a restricted designation.
“If any team could do that (under the salary cap), good luck to them,” Brown said.
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