B
Kansas City Chiefs
The Chiefs let Barron fall and pounced. Final grade: B.
by t ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 5 picks
· 5 steals
· 0 reaches
You build a draft on nights like this. Jahdae Barron had no business being available in No. 133, and the Chiefs did the only sane thing and turned in the card. It nets out to a B, which feels about right.
The Barron pick is fine in a vacuum, less so with wide receiver, tight end and other spots still on the board. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped wide receiver, which is a strange place to end up.
Offensive lineman is handled and the depth chart looks a good deal healthier for it. They reloaded the coverage unit in bulk.
Good work on the whole, with wide receiver the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In the Round 1 slot they get a sticky cover corner at a price that makes it sweeter. Need was not the driver here.
Wyatt Milum at the 64th pick is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
They will replay Tate Ratledge at pick No. 68 for years; that is how good the value is. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
A top-tier interior defensive lineman at a bargain, Walter Nolen in No. 96, plain and simple. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
The needs board was loud and they turned it down, spending Round 4, Pick 32 on Jahdae Barron with wide receiver, tight end and other spots unsolved.