<table> </table> R IVER FALLS, Wis. | Sure enough, the big guy lumbered off the bus and walked toward his home for the next three weeks.</p><p>Branden Albert, the No. 15 overall pick, signed a five-year contract about noon Thursday, in time to fly to Minneapolis with the Chiefs and take the bus to their training camp site on the Wisconsin-River Falls campus. He walked off the bus and smiled.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy,&#8221; Albert said, talking over the hum of the buses. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a world has shifted off my shoulders right now &#8212; just worrying about the business aspect and getting here.&#8221;</p><p>The Chiefs will have to wait for the other big guy. Glenn Dorsey was the fifth overall pick and is the highest draft pick who hasn&#8217;t signed. Chiefs president Carl Peterson said he temporarily suspended contract negotiations Thursday morning with Dorsey&#8217;s agent, Joel Segal.</p><p>Although the NFL&#8217;s first four draft picks have signed with their respective teams, Peterson said Segal wanted to wait until more first-rounders had signed. The No. 6 overall pick, Vernon Gholston, was close to a deal Thursday with the New York Jets.</p><p>&#8220;Glenn knows he needs to be here; I think Glenn wants to be here,&#8221; Peterson said. &#8220;Our comment to Glenn Dorsey&#8217;s agent was: &#8216;Look it, since you don&#8217;t want to negotiate, we&#8217;re going to go to camp and get started. When you want to negotiate, you know how to reach us, so give me a phone call.&#8217;</p><p>&#8220;He&#8217;s got the phone numbers here. Hopefully, he will be calling.&#8221;</p><p>Reached Thursday evening, Segal said he would not discuss Dorsey&#8217;s contract situation or Peterson&#8217;s comments. Attempts to reach Dorsey were unsuccessful.</p><p>If Peterson and Segal do not discuss and resolve the situation, and Dorsey is not in River Falls by 9 a.m. today, it would be the ninth time in the last 13 years a Chiefs first-round pick was a training camp holdout.</p><p>Peterson said Albert and Dorsey promised they would be in camp on time but pointed out that, as of late Thursday afternoon, only one of the top picks had kept his word.</p><p>&#8220;He promised me,&#8221; said Peterson, referring to Dorsey, &#8220;and he&#8217;s going to lose his bet that he&#8217;s going to be here on time. Branden won the bet.</p><p>&#8220;I think sometimes it shows a little bit about the character of the young man that he makes a commitment and stands by it.&#8221;</p><p>Albert is standing by a lot of the Chiefs&#8217; plans. He played guard at Virginia, but the Chiefs moved him to left tackle during organized team activities last month. Albert admitted Thursday that his position change, among other things, made it imperative he arrive on time to River Falls.</p><p>Albert said he knew it would be possible when his agent, Todd France, called him around 1 p.m. Wednesday and told Albert he should start looking for flights to Kansas City from his home in Maryland.</p><p>First-year offensive coordinator Chan Gailey admitted he was relieved when he heard Albert had signed. He said that meant the Chiefs&#8217; planned starting offense would begin training camp intact.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s certainly a lot easier to make it happy when you&#8217;ve got everybody here,&#8221; Gailey said. &#8220;You are on the same page, and if you&#8217;re on the same page, it gives you a much better chance.&#8221;</p><p>Tony Gonzalez, Larry Johnson and Brodie Croyle walked by as Albert spoke with reporters. So did Derrick Johnson and Tamba Hali. The familiar pieces to the Chiefs&#8217; rebuilding puzzle strolled down the sidewalk outside the South Fork Suites, some carrying Dopp kits and others pulling suitcases for the three-week stay in this town of about 12,000.</p><p>The new faces were there, too, all of them but Dorsey and seventh-round pick Michael Merritt. Both were on the training-camp roster, but neither was in western Wisconsin. Last year&#8217;s first-rounder, Dwayne Bowe, knows the feeling. He held out most of last year&#8217;s training camp and said he has told his former Louisiana State teammate to &#8220;be patient.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;It is a business,&#8221; Bowe said. &#8220;You want to be back with the team, but you have a future. So tell your agent to do the right thing.&#8221;</p><p>Albert said he no longer needed to worry about contracts and how a potential holdout might set him back. He was on that bus, and his contract is finished. The next three weeks, he said, can&#8217;t be more stressful than that.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just happy to start playing football,&#8221; he said. &#8220;All the fun and games start now.&#8221;</p><p>For now, Dorsey will have to take Albert&#8217;s word for it.