\u201cWith Alohi, just having, over the years, having a Tyrann Mathieu, then having a Justin Reid, just having a cerebral player there that sees the field, can be a leader back there, get everyone lined up. We lost Bryan Cook, too,\u201d Veach said of his team\u2019s safety position. \u201cAnd look, it doesn\u2019t mean we won\u2019t add if we can get a similar player that has those leadership capabilities back there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Who best fits the description of that last sentence? Most likely Ohio State safety Caleb Downs, who is considered a top-10 pick but could fall to the Chiefs at No. 9.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs have bigger positional needs than safety \u2014 defensive end, receiver and defensive tackle are a few \u2014 but, in general, on Thursday, Veach didn\u2019t rule out the possibility of taking a non-premium position early.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think our goal is to just make that selection and add a player here that is going to be an impact player on our team,\u201d Veach said. \u201cAnd I know it\u2019s cliche-ish, but to really just add the best player available, right? You hear that all the time. But I don\u2019t want to overthink that, and I don\u2019t want to take a lesser player. Just someone that\u2019s going to come in here, be an impact player, help us from day one. I think that\u2019s extremely important to us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWith Alohi, just having, over the years, having a Tyrann Mathieu, then having a Justin Reid, just having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[110834,15977,349,99],"class_list":["post-592435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arrowheadlines","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592435","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=592435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}