There will probably be a lot of trades<\/a>,\u201d Veach said. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s what a draft like this \u2014 when you don\u2019t have two or three franchise quarterbacks \u2014 I think it does lend itself to [opening] up to a lot of fun and a lot of excitement. So, I think from a fan\u2019s perspective, they should have a lot of fun next Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\nWhy so many deals? <\/p>\n
“[T]he grades are going to be so close from some of these tackles, D-ends, and other positions \u2014 receivers \u2014 that a lot of those guys that are mocked high may go a little lower and a lot of these guys that are getting mocked lower may go a little higher because I think they\u2019re so close this year,\u201d Veach said. \u201cIt\u2019s not this huge gap and big fall off.\u201d <\/p>\n
With two first-round picks in tow at No. 9 and No. 29 overall, the Chiefs could be one of those teams to move around the draft board. Kansas City currently has nine selections \u2014 two in the first round, one in the second, one in the third, one in the fourth, three in the fifth, and one in the sixth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe more picks you have, the more fluid you can be,\u201d Veach said. \u201cWhen you enter a draft and you only have a few picks, you\u2019re kind of sandwiched in, and the ability to trade up is limited. \u2026 This is unique because we still have a volume of picks but we\u2019re at [No.] 9 and [No.] 29. So I think there\u2019s ability to maybe move back at 9 and maybe up at 29. Or maybe move up at [9], and back at 29. So I think, like the \u201922 draft, it\u2019s exciting because you come in there with flexibility. But I also think there\u2019s even more flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Chiefs used their two first-round picks in 2022 to select Trent McDuffie at No. 21 overall and George Karlaftis at No. 30. We\u2019ll see what kind of haul the team can get this year next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one General Manager is expecting some significant movement during the first round of the draft next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-588306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}