D+
Kansas City Chiefs
The phones sank the Chiefs this weekend: D+.
by Trey51984 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 6 picks
· 1 steals
· 2 reaches
The Chiefs did not so much draft Zak Zinter as overpay for him, 33 picks clear of his grade. It sets an uneasy tone for the weekend.
Overpaying at the table undid a lot of the good work elsewhere. The quarterback hole is the one line item this class does not answer.
Bottom line, they will need several of these picks to beat their grades just to break even, and quarterback is still a hole.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 32 they get a blindside protector at fair value. Exactly the need they had to hit.
A slide stopped in the 64th pick, with Malachi Corley worth more than the price. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Zak Zinter at slot 74 is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
A real head-scratcher, Theo Johnson in No. 95 is miles ahead of his ranking. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
By-the-book stuff, Xavier Thomas at the 159th overall pick squarely in line with his ranking. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
A straight-up fair deal on Cody Schrader at Round 5, Pick 37, value and slot in agreement. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.