B+
Kansas City Chiefs
The Chiefs let Solomon fall into their laps, and walked away with a B+.
by iBond ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 6 picks
· 5 steals
· 0 reaches
Somebody in No. 159 was going to get robbed, and it turned out to be the rest of the league. The Chiefs sat still while Javon Solomon, the No. 115 name on the board, slid all the way to them, then sprinted to the podium. Call it a sensible B+, earned the boring way.
That quarterback hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall. The future picks help the war chest more than the win-now roster.
They left with wide receiver solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off. Almost all the early capital went to that side of the ball.
In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the quarterback spot they never got to.
Pick-by-Pick
A wide receiver of that caliber at pick 64 is the definition of value, full stop. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
The board had Kiran Amegadjie higher than the Round 3 slot, and the offensive lineman fell to them anyway. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Chau Smith-Wade at the 158th overall pick is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
Javon Solomon at pick No. 159 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. Not a spot anyone had flagged, which makes it a head-scratcher.
A straight-up fair deal on Cody Schrader at the 173rd pick, value and slot in agreement. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
They will replay Trey Knox at No. 252 for years; that is how good the value is. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.