CHIEFS MOCK DRAFT GRADE D

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'25 Mock 23 r2c D

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Kansas City Chiefs

Anderson should have been long gone. The Chiefs pounced, and earned a D.

by Gravespire · 2025 NFL Draft · 10 picks · 8 steals · 1 reaches
Value A-
Need B
Trades F
Future B-

The Chiefs spent the weekend waiting on one name, and it fell: Nic Anderson, the No. 80 name on the board, in Round 5, Pick 32. Hard to defend, and the D reflects that.

They lost the exchange badly enough to drag the whole class down. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped quarterback, which is a strange place to end up. The Nesbit reach is the anchor dragging on the value grade.

Add it up and it is a weekend the front office will hope everyone forgets, quarterback very much included.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.32 · Pick 32 · Travis Hunter · CB · rank 3
They barely believed it either: Travis Hunter still on the board at pick No. 32. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
R2.1 · Pick 33 · Jack Sawyer · DE-EDGE · rank 25
Jack Sawyer is a better player than Round 2, Pick 1 suggests; smart patience, rewarded. It fills a real need, too.
R2.32 · Pick 64 · Tate Ratledge · OG · rank 56
They let Tate Ratledge come to them and pounced at the 64th overall pick. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R3.5 · Pick 69 · Ajani Cornelius · OT · rank 58
Ajani Cornelius slipping to the Round 3 slot is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R3.20 · Pick 84 · Kenneth Grant · DT · rank 31
Kenneth Grant in No. 84 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R4.9 · Pick 105 · Dasan McCullough · LB · rank 95
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Dasan McCullough in the 105th pick. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
R4.32 · Pick 128 · Riley Mahlman · OT · rank 127
A straight-up fair deal on Riley Mahlman at pick 128, value and slot in agreement. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
R5.2 · Pick 130 · Bryson Nesbit · TE · rank 143
Bryson Nesbit at slot 130 jumps the queue by a touch more than is comfortable. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R5.32 · Pick 160 · Nic Anderson · WR · rank 80
Somehow Nic Anderson was still sitting there in the 160th overall pick, and they pounced on premier wide receiver value. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R7.1 · Pick 193 · Rylie Mills · DT · rank 121
They robbed the room for Rylie Mills here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
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