Call Your Shot: Who's the Chiefs first pick?
 

Rule: You can change your answer up until next Thursday!

This might be the toughest year yet for this. I can see so many different possibilities, especially considering that I think there's a solid chance the Chiefs trade up.

Edit: It's draft day and I'm changing my pick!

Amarius Mims, OT, Georgia

There's way too much smoke about the Chiefs trading up and/or them targeting a LT. I'm going with a guy that I think could make it into our range, who also has the kind of upside that would have Veach itching to make a move to go get him.

Kingsley Suamataia, OT, BYU

I think we’re making a splash and moving up.

Brian Thomas Jr.

Trade back and pick the next Sky Moore from jack shit university.

LMAO

What a miserable ****.

Brock Bowers.

Aspirational prediction.

WR Xavier Legette

This is my bet as well.

Trade back

A trade up to 19 with he Rams for Mims. Then Pearsall or Roman wilson to follow it up.

I think we trade up for a LT, Guyton or Mims.

Ohh me likey.

Unlikely but the Rams are always a bit of a wild card.

I also think we trade up to #19 with Rams..but also get Kupp coming back to KC as well!

#19) Mims + Kupp

I'm sick of your shit, but i'd take it. I'd bitch about it but I'd take it.

Hoe cool would Joe Alt be for lore and legacy. I know, I know but it's fun to imagine.

We should get right of first refusal just for those reasons.

Great minds...

Veach got all my texts...

WR Brian Thomas Jr., LSU

One thing I’m confident about is Veach wanting to trade up. He’s done it almost every year he’s been here. All these guys were trade ups: Breeland Speaks, Mecole Hardman, Nick Bolton, Trent McDuffie, Rashee Rice. He’s traded up in the 1st or 2nd rd all but 2020.

6 straight picks from 22-27 are all NFC teams and I think that’s the sweet spot.

BTJ will be gone so I have to think it’s for a tackle

Fun/free mock draft simulator if you guys are big nerds about the draft like I am:

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/mockdraft

The Chiefs should actually be awarded the first overall pick imho

Veach will try to move up, the cost to get to 16 will be too steep, the teams from about 17-20 won't deal with KC and by 22 and beyond the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

So the Chiefs stay put at 32 and take Jordan Morgan, OT - Arizona.

I feel like there’s no need to trade up. We’re not desperate and we’re not a player or two away from the Super Bowl.

If anything we trade back to acquire more picks.

I think we stay put and draft Legette as an MVS replacement. If Veach thinks he can get his guy in early-mid 2nd round we'll trade down.

Brian Thomas Jr.

I think we'll trade up for Mims.

If it's a trade up it'll either be Olu Fashanu or Mims

If they stay at #32, it'll either be Mitchell or McConkey

Very much agreed. Everyone talks about how deep this WR class is but downplays the fact that OT prospects that would go in the top 15 in other years might actually be available closer to the end of the first round. There's no way Veach allows another year of uncertainty when it's actually possible to fix the glaring problem at a low cost for five years.

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Yeah Brian Thomas Jr is gonna go in the teens and I don’t think we’ll be able to pull off a trade that high.

I’m thinking a trade up for Tyler Guyton who is the ideal LT type and most scouts think he’ll have no problem playing LT.

There's nothing "desperate" about trading up if there's somebody that we love. And we actually are exactly a player or two away from the Super Bowl. We just went to the Super Bowl that we won in OT, and then we lost a couple of good players.

Last year around this time, Veach said there was someone in this draft they loved.

If they do trade up, it's not out of desperation.

There are times I wish we could force user subtitles on people. "Miserable ****" is an excellent description for Red Dawg.

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I'm thinking the Chiefs will trade up, but not in the first round. There will probably be several decent WR still available at #32. We'll then trade up in the second round. Maybe with Arizona at #35. The Cardinals have pick #4 and pick #27 so we'll give them a 2025 pick as part of the compensation since they'll have already picked their biggest needs and with 11 overall picks will be willing to move a pick or two to next year's draft.

I 100% agree. I don't really understand the notion of saying we're not a team that is 1 or 2 players away. I think a team that has been there like us, consistently, is usually 1 or 2 players away from being there again. A team that hasn't been in the playoffs or is in a reset of sorts (a la Buffalo) is the type that maybe wouldn't be as apt to throw caution to the wind and go for broke on a superstar/stud. Teams like them need to fill multiple holes.

We have two really glaring holes... sure we need to always address depth but we don't need to fix it all right now. We're talking about going for a f'n 3-peat. If it costs me a 2nd and future 3rd to go up and get A guy, I'm going for it.

I was looking specifically at this list of players yesterday and thought to myself, no matter what we do in terms of going for broke for a guy, there's still options out there elsewhere to backfill with:

RB Boston Scott
RB Matt Breida

WR Tyler Boyd
WR Mecole Hardman
WR Odell Beckham Jr

OT Donovan Smith
OT Mekhi Becton
OT/G Andrus Peat

CB Adoree Jackson
CB Akhello Witherspoon

Move up for Fautanu or Thomas and worry about the rest as it comes. That's my 2 cents.

Eh, we can technically change them, but the user can instantly change it back, so it kind of ruins the fun.

U can change the names tho? :)

whoever the Bills are planning to use their first pick on

Furthermore, the Chiefs do stay at #32 and select a WR, IMO they'll definitely trade up for a potential LT Patrick Paul or Kingsley Suamataia

Mr. Brian Thomas Jr

I think we will get a OT, our top need either at 16 with a trade up or at 32 standing foot. Looking at it in more detail:

Trade up to 16 ideally for Bowers or if he’s gone for one of the five top tackles, if available [Alt, the 3 Fs, Latham]. If we can’t trade up for that value stick at 32 and pick the best remaining top tackle or WR if somebody really good falls that far.

We don’t need to reach for a WR. With brown, whatever we get from rice and hopefully signing Renfrew, we will have so much better a WR room than last year.

That has become one of my favorite draft day traditions, lol.

1st pick: Guyton or Suamataia
trade up in the 2nd for Leggette

I really think the Bills are going to have PTSD about us trading in front of them. That's going to cause them to overpay to trade up for a guy like BTJ.

Keon Coleman, WR

If he's still there, trade up with the Cardinals @27 in front of the Dildos, and pick Brian Thomas jr. but I doubt he's still there. Otherwise, take whoever OT is left at 32, and then trade up in the 2nd for our rookie WR. Rice probably won't be here when we need him to start the season, but who knows? Roger Goodell, that's who.

WR Brian Thomas Jr

Trade up - OT Amarius Mims

Stay put - WR Xavier Leggette

Trade down - F**k that

Troy Franklin

Shit, I would gladly trade down if someone wanted the 5th year on a QB. Pick up an extra 3rd? It's a good draft. Count me in!

BFA, best fatty available.

The chances of getting a 3rd after a trade out of the 1st are very slim. Much more likely to be a 4th, and hardly worth it IMO.

Veach talking about older NIL players filling the back half of the draft seems like he doesn’t intend to use many picks on day 3.

If he's right that the back end of the draft has been thinned by NIL, that would imply that the draft will thicken up with prospects in the near future. He might make deals that give us back end picks in 2025 or 2026.

Troy Franklin. In some ways I don't see him as an obvious pick, or Chiefs WR. My total guess is they look to move up for a LT and have no trade partners, consider going up for someone like Brian Thomas Jr and, again, get rebuffed. What they're then left with is a load of RTs with potential but too many questions for their liking, and 2-3 WRs they like. They've met Franklin I believe and I could see them liking his versatility as a guy who has the required athleticism, good route running but also can beat man and zone in a way the other options can't.

...almost certainly they'll now go for a CB.

Xavier Worthy

If you're looking at Leggette then there's no reason at all not to trade down.

I'd be surprised if he went before 50 (and absolutely shocked if the Chiefs took him at 32).

I think 80% want a WR, 10% want a LT and 10% a TE for replacing Kelce.

I think we cover off all 3 in the draft.

I know every "expert" here says I am ass for wanting to trade up for a great WR but if somehow a Rome Odzune dropped to like 15, I would want to try and get someone like him.

Highly unlikely but one can dream.

People are saying it because in ESPN's last 3 round mock that Field Yates and Kiper did they had Leggette to the Chiefs at 32.

Also, Rashee Rice **** things up for us short term and makes us slighly more needy than we had to be.

Im a Legette homer, he was my initial draft crush not counting the Big 4.

But damn, with that said, i think he's a mid 2nd to mid 3rd round kinda guy. Not sure where all this 1st round talk is coming from.

I mean if the Chiefs take him then i'll readily admit i was wrong but i really dont expect him to go in the 1st. I dont even expect him to go high in the 2nd.

In other draft related news, sounds like Jayden Daniels is trying to work his way down the board. Agent is tweeting out quite a bit about how they're not happy with how the Commanders handled their visit.

Buzz is he really wants LV to be with Antonio Pierce.

If we trade up it's for Thomas, Latham or Fuatanu, IMO.

I don't think we can get up to Fashanu (know we can't get up to Alt). And like you, I don't think we can get up to the Big 3 at WR.

Thomas is the clear WR4, IMO. And I think Fuatanu is probably LT3 in this draft (there's too much projection required in Latham and probably Fuaga as well, IMO).

And I still think either of them would have to make it past Jacksonville and Cincy to the Rams spot where they may be interested in collecting more capital since they haven't had a 1st rounder in awhile.

That'll cost you this year's 3rd and next year's 2nd, IMO. You might get something like 155 back in the deal, but the meat of the deal will be 32, 95 and the 2025 2nd rounder to get up there. And that presumes either of those guys get that far.

You have maybe a 30% chance of one of them getting that far, IMO.

And ultimately that's why I just don't see a trade up as being very likely.

I won't.

I'll presume THEY are.

Legette doesn't look like a 1st rounder to me.

This… if there is a receiver you really want trade up in the 2nd. If we could get that 39 pick rom Carolina you might have a shot at several 2nd tier WRs.

The 2nd rd for this draft will look a lot like the 2019 2nd rd draft for WR IMO. At least least 7 taken but there will be talent for us at the end of rd 2 or small trade up.

DK Metcalf, Diontae Johnson and Terry McLaurin were all taken after us. Think that same talent will be there this year.

Just need to pick the right one

Hope it's not a repeat of that draft. We had a WR get in trouble before the draft and we grabbed a guy to try and fill in for him.

Totally different scenario because the Tyreek news broke so close to the draft, and the accusations were so serious that they didn't know if he'd ever play another down for the Chiefs again. That's clearly not the case with Rice.

Plenty of talk for BV moving up, but prob not enough draft capital...if he trades up, itwill only be a few spots for Guyton. More likely they trade down and get 2 picks in the sweet spot...
1) Suamataia
2) Legette

Stay put? McConkey

I would love Legette in rd 2. I think there’s a really strong chance that one or two of Legette, Walker, Franklin, Burton will be there around 64. McMillan will be there too.

I don’t see the need to trade up far if we do

I just don't think any team in the NFL is gonna trade with the Chiefs right now. They probably all got together and were like...DON'T TRADE WITH THE ****ING CHIEFS...I'll be amazed if we do that.

People are just obsessed with me. **** off and get a life.

Yup please :)

I hope we jump in front of the Bills to take him but I doubt it lolz

Shut up, bitch.

lol. Another classic from the biggest asshole on CP.

Bet if you were in charge instead of Veach we would've done something crazy like played in 6 consecutive AFC championship games and won something nuts like 3 of the last 5 Super Bowls.

What could've been, if only Clark would've seen your brilliance...