KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Question for those who want the Kansas City Chiefs to draft a wide receiver in the first round of this year’s draft (and that seems to be about everyone): Would you be happy if the Chiefs selected a player who produced for them over the next eight years like Dwayne Bowe has for the last eight?

That’s probably not a popular notion now, with Bowe having settled into a pattern of three straight seasons with decent but certainly not great numbers. But let’s not forget that Bowe was the Chiefs’ leading wide receiver in all eight of his seasons, topped 1,000 yards three times and led the league in receiving touchdowns in 2010 with 15. Let’s also not forget the roster of quarterbacks he played with: Damon Huard, Brodie Croyle, Tyler Thigpen, Matt Cassel, Tyler Palko, Kyle Orton, Brady Quinn, Alex Smith and Chase Daniel.

So, yes, I would take another Bowe, or at least his production average of 66.5 catches, 894.4 yards (13.45-yard average) and 5.5 touchdowns over eight seasons. (Interesting aside: Bowe had 15 touchdowns in 2010 and 29 total in his other seven seasons).

Another interesting question: Would the 2015 Chiefs even draft a 22-year-old Bowe? I know they’d prefer a faster receiver. Bowe ran a 4.51 40 at the 2007 combine, which was 22nd among 38 wide receivers that year. Twenty of 39 wideouts ran faster this year.

Scouts Inc. has seven wide receivers listed among its top 32 players in this year’s draft: Alabama’s Amari Cooper, West Virginia’s Kevin White, Louisville’s Devante Parker, Michigan’s Devin Funchess, Ohio State’s Devin Smith, Arizona’s State’s Jaelen Strong and Oklahoma's Dorial Green-Beckham, who starred at Missouri before off-field problems sidelined him. ESPN analyst Todd McShay has eight receivers in his top 32 -- the seven from Scouts Inc. plus Miami’s Phillip Dorsett.

All except Funchess ran faster than Bowe’s 4.51 40. Funchess ran a 4.7, which might have run him out of the first round.

There’s a chance all of these players except Cooper, White and Parker could be available when the Chiefs make their first pick, the 18th in the first round. Assuming they take any one of these players except Funchess, they’ll be getting someone who runs a better time and probably plays faster than Bowe.

Even with the understanding that the combine and 40 time are only small parts of the drafting process, I wonder whether Bowe would be a first-round pick this year if he was coming out. When the Chiefs drafted Bowe with the 23rd overall pick in 2007, he was the third wideout drafted behind Georgia Tech’s Calvin Johnson (No. 2 to Detroit) and Ohio State’s Ted Ginn Jr. (No. 9 to Miami).

Perhaps Bowe would be in the mix this year after the top three of Cooper, White and Parker have been selected. But he would have some strong, and faster, competition in players such as Smith, Strong and Green-Beckham.