B
Kansas City Chiefs
Nobody dealt better than the Chiefs this weekend: B.
by CheeseBurger Fat Man ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 5 steals
· 3 reaches
The trade table was a mismatch, and the Chiefs were on the right end of it, hauling in a fortune in surplus value.
A whole weekend of picks and tight end is somehow still a want. The Thomas pick is the one the value grade keeps tripping over.
Zuhn III falling to them is the kind of break a good board is built to catch.
All told, a solid class that does its job everywhere but tight end.
Pick-by-Pick
In the Round 1 slot they get a press-man option on the boundary at fair value. Need was not the driver here.
In slot 29 they get a run-stuffing presence up front, outstanding value to boot. A real need, handled.
Zion Young at pick No. 40 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. It fills a real need, too.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Bryce Lance well ahead of where he belonged. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
A slide stopped in Round 3, Pick 28, with Elijah Sarratt worth more than the price. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Value said wait; Caden Curry in No. 110 says they were not listening. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Trey Zuhn III at the 148th overall pick is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
They read the board right and Beau Stephens was the payoff at the 169th pick. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
A straight-up fair deal on Matt Gulbin at the 176th overall pick, value and slot in agreement. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Josh Cameron slid further than he should have, and pick 199 is lovely value for the wide receiver. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
They reached into another round for Zavion Thomas, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.