{"id":611272,"date":"2026-04-16T18:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611272\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:41:15","slug":"chiefs-gm-brett-veach-expecting-a-lot-of-trades-in-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611272\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs GM Brett Veach expecting a lot of trades in first round"},"content":{"rendered":"

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In his annual news conference before the NFL draft next week, Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> general manager Brett Veach made a bold prediction.<\/p>\n

“It should be an entertaining night,” Veach said Thursday. “There’ll probably be a lot of trades.”<\/p>\n

Throughout this offseason, Veach has shared that this year’s draft class is different from most years. Most analysts believe only one quarterback, Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza<\/a>, will be selected in the first 10 picks. Veach also said that some of the top prospects — such as Ohio State linebacker Sonny Styles<\/a>, Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love<\/a> and Ohio State safety Caleb Downs<\/a> — do not play one of the league’s premier positions. A number of factors, Veach said, could lead to teams engaging and executing more trades than usual.<\/p>\n

“I think that the fans will be in for a treat next Thursday because I think the grades [on prospects] are going to be so close from some of these [offensive] tackles and D-ends and receivers,” Veach said. “A lot of these guys that are mocked high may go a little lower and a lot of these guys that are getting mocked a little lower may go higher because I think they’re so close this year. There’s not this huge gap and huge fall off.<\/p>\n

“That’s what a draft like this — when you don’t have two or three [high-graded] quarterbacks and a Will Anderson [Jr.<\/a>] or a Myles Garrett<\/a> — does: It lends itself to open up to a lot of fun and a lot of excitement.”<\/p>\n

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The Chiefs could be one of those teams who want to consummate a trade. Since his tenure began, which was July 2017, Veach has made several deals days before the draft and during the event. The Chiefs are one of few teams — including the New York Jets<\/a>, the Cleveland Browns<\/a>, the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> and the Miami Dolphins<\/a> — that have two first-round selections in this year’s draft. The Chiefs are scheduled to pick ninth and 29th.<\/p>\n

Last month, the Chiefs traded All-Pro cornerback Trent McDuffie<\/a> to the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> for a package of draft picks that had the 29th pick as the deal’s centerpiece.<\/p>\n

In fact, the way the Chiefs acquired McDuffie in the 2022 draft was through a trade with the New England Patriots<\/a>. Veach that year moved the Chiefs up from 29th pick to the 21st pick to select McDuffie, who joined the team just a few weeks after the team executed a blockbuster trade that sent receiver Tyreek Hill<\/a> to the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know if I have a blueprint for that,” Veach said of his history trades. “It’s just exhausting all the information with each player, identifying your team needs, [and] working with the coaching staff.<\/p>\n

“We’re at 215 [prospects on their draft board this year]. You’re going to have 10-15 guys that you really want to get. It’s just trying to work the board and trying to find out how many of those 10-15 guys that you have in that really-want list can you position yourself to get.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In his annual news conference before the NFL draft next week, Kansas City Chiefs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-611272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}