"Plaxico Burress' arrival with the Jets could have come much earlier than 2011, Chiefs coach Todd Haley revealed Wednesday.

Haley, the Jets receivers coach in 2000, said the team was ready to draft Burress but the Steelers got him first. The Jets had just traded Keyshawn Johnson to the Buccanneers and were looking for a replacement.

"We had lost Keyshawn, we had traded him to Tampa (Bay), and we were looking for a guy that could fill those shoes," Haley said on a conference call with New York reporters prior to Kansas City playing the Jets on Sunday.

"(Burress) obviously had the size and ability and has kind of proven on his own, made a name for himself on his own, obviously. But when you do a lot of work on guys like that ... Everything happens for a reason, but I know as a receivers coach sitting there in the draft room, I was disappointed when the Steelers took him.""