Kansas City Chiefs Ready to TRADE UP for Draft Gold—Will Andy Reid STRIKE First?

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I'm Chris Clark from Chiefs Corner.

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Lots of different things to talk about.

We are getting into the draft and diving deep because it is almost here by the time you're

listening to this.

We will be about what three, four weeks away from the draft and this is right where we

want to be.

So let's just dive right in right now.

We are making the assumption, this is the assumption we will start with.

We're making the assumption that chiefs get a pass rusher at nine.

That is the assumption we're going to make with this discussion.

So they get a pass rusher at nine.

What do you want to do with 29?

What are you willing to give up is going to be where we're going to discuss now and then

a little bit later we're going to get into who you're going to give it up for.

The one thing I don't want to do with 29 is stay at 29.

So I am trying to most likely trade up from 29 is my guess.

I could consider depending on if the board falls to the point where the targets would be

gone again.

We're talking about the chiefs maybe a most having 15 first round grades and that's probably

being very generous.

So I don't know if it's worth trading back up if two picks after the chiefs are on the

clock and make their first selection if all their top first round grades are gone.

So I don't know how far they have to go but for me I would trade anyway.

The good thing is if those draft picks are gone or those selections in first round grades

they could trade back from 29 because I do think the bottom of that round is still

somebody who wants to come up to get that last go sneak something in before the end of

night one before everybody has to reset their boards.

So I'm confident I'm trading out I just don't know which direction it will go.

For me it's based on the price to do so.

So when you look at it you think that they probably have 15 grades being generous again.

So the problem with trading up is at 29 you're more than likely going to have to trade

up into the early 20s at least to get a guy that you think has a top has a first round

value.

But what do you have to give up to get that get there if you're at 29?

That is the question and the picks that I'm targeting are Dallas at 20 I think that's

the most likely one that I would be trying to get to because I don't think you're obviously

not going to give anything with the chargers or the Steelers I doubt.

Yes, you could go up to 23 with Philly and I do feel like you're on the Steelers but

I just feel like the AFC is like they've got the chiefs where they feel they're down

and I just don't think any of the AFCs are really getting much chance to reach you know.

So I think you could trade with how it's 23 I think how it's probably game to move

out of there I could be wrong but I don't know that that's going to get you any closer

where you're going.

So for me it really comes down to the two picks at Dallas at 20 and Minnesota at 18 and

if they were able to do that for 109 great, I can either and so that that's where I get

I get pretty twitchy when we talk about sending 29 and 74 to try to get to 20 that seems

like 74 is a is a pick that I think they can get an offensive lineman a defensive lineman

a depth corner I feel like that's a valuable pick that I'd be reluctant to give up unless

I absolutely had to.

So let me ask this when you look at this I understand your thought process I understand

where you're coming from but when you look at this are you considering as the chiefs

would you consider giving up your third round pick you got last year to give up maybe

only a fifth round pick this year sorry a third round pick next year's draft that you just

got in in the trade for Mcduffee MLA yeah would you consider giving that up or even it

doesn't really matter at that point it's a third round pick whether it's LAs or yours

would you give up one of those third rounders to use to trade up and maybe give up something

like a fifth rounder this year to get there as opposed to giving it a third rounder this

year.

And I'd be reluctant to do that because the class next year feels that it's going to

be better top to bottom but if you did do that if it had to be a third I would do LAs

next year and then that way you could try to move around again and come down from something

maybe you move back from 40 to 45 and you can pick up another third or fourth it all depends

on where you're looking.

Well and I actually I would probably give up Kansas City's third if I could get away

with it because it's probably going to be lower than LAs at least in my opinion generally

speaking they're picking in the 30s and so we'll see whether or not the Rams can have

that kind of season but when we get back we're going to be talking about who you'd be targeting

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us to do so at this point the question is we've talked about what you would be willing

to give up the question is what would you be trying to go get when you move up again

where it comes in tricky you took it you took a deep it's a bit in the first round at

nine so just want to throw that out there again so giant check box off okay great I think

this is the spot because of the depth on the side of the defense I think 29 is or the

second pick in the first round wherever it ends up be I think that's the pick to look

at the offensive side to be honest and so I'm either looking first off a wide receiver

if you can get to 18 or 20 who's left there because you might find Jordan Tyson still

sitting there that would be intriguing to me I would probably be looking at tackle as well

now I think most likely there's three tackles that are off the board by the time we get to 18 but

there's always a chance somebody falls through and I know folks wouldn't be happy with an offensive

alignment at nine but at 20 I could live with that if it's final I could live with that even if

it's feeling who I think is is a giant gamble at this point but I don't think it'll be

now I know I think that the league likes him better than final right now I'm comfortable with

final because he's he is a zone guy he's long enough in my opinion to be able to recover against

longer rushers and I do think his athleticism plays into that so I'm not against him just against

him at nine I don't want I don't want an offensive alignment at nine if they don't have to hide

and I get that thought process and it makes a ton of sense to me the the big question and this

is going to be the thing that everything checks out with is what's available I mean that's that's

the big problem you know we're talking about that they're going to be taking a defensive end and one

of the things that we didn't specify is that they took a defensive end at nine because that does

matter if they have to trade up to go get the defensive end they want I'm not so sure you can make

a trade at 29 especially not up very high because you're probably already going to have to give up a

third round pick at least to move up to to go get a couple or a couple spots to go leapfrog somebody

whether it's Cleveland or whether you're trading up to Cleveland or you're trading up to the

commanders to leapfrog the Saints I mean you're going to have to give up more than just I would

imagine you're going to have to give up the third round pick so don't think that we would want to

be talking about that because then you'd be basically trading away your third round pick to move

up to go get your past pressure and then you'd have to trade a fourth round pick to and maybe

another third to go up and get somebody else I mean that's really the problem that you're going

into yeah that's true and it becomes again whether one of those first round grades is still available

when within striking distance that you think if you can go up and get them and if that's the case

there is a problem with this draft that it is not very top heavy yes there's good debt that

the multiple positions in several that will help the chiefs but if you want blue chip players

or or even purple which is probably the what I feel is like the money spots right you don't have

to have the sunny styles or the archival races right it'd be nice to have but they are the elite

blue chippers in here as long as you get the next here now the the guys that aren't quite red but

they're not elite blues like that purple rage is what I'm looking for if you can do that then maybe

it's worth it because then you're not digging as deep into the later rounds and you're pushing

your total selections up to more towards impact players yeah and that's going to be the big question

what can you get where can you go my bigger my my question you talked about wide receiver you

talked about offense you talked about tackle is this another position where they look at the board

and they say okay well I would imagine delaying has gone probably top 15 that's just my guess

is corner another option at trading up to go get the corner because there's a corner out there

that's a lot of people like that you like but it's a question of injury and how that's going to play

into the evaluation and in all of that so lots of different things there but it could be corner

is there a defensive tackle that you would trade up not even necessarily all the way to the 20s

to go get I don't think so I don't think either of those positions are ones that the

chiefs want to make a trade for I do like McCoy and I do think Spags will like and Merritt will

like McCoy but I don't think that Brett Vitch is going to go trade up for a guy with that history

much like Simmons I think they'd stand pat at 29 and see if he falls to them I just don't see that

but if it's a tackle is a different story right a lot of people have woods is number one I have

him is number two behind Caden McDonald because Caden McDonald can play all three downs and I am

disturbed more so by Peter Woods 2025 than AMTJ Parkers both of them had down years and that

comes in defense but I feel like Woods fell off a lot harder from where he was in 24 so I think both

those guys could be gone so it becomes are you trying to trade up for Lee Hunter massive Matt

from Texas Tech but again not a pass rush type guy and now that you have Tonga do you see him

your nose for the next three years I don't think you can make that move if you're looking at it from

that perspective great you have to get passed for us from a DT in the first round at least in my opinion

yeah I agree with you and I actually have I have 103 I have Miller next and then there's a bit of a

drop and there's three guys the next tier I think you can wait till 40 and get Dominic Orange or get

Grayson Halton certainly you may be able to get somebody with that similar grade um

Grayson or somebody down at 74 and that's another reason not to give away that pick now I'm not as big

on Caleb Banks because I think his tape is so inconsistent I don't trust it there's the foot injury

for a 330 pound man that makes me really nervous a lot of people tell you that Banks will go higher

and maybe that pushes more defensive tackle talent down I'm hoping that's the way it goes because

I wouldn't be drafting in the top 40 uh Caleb Banks well there you have it that is kind of what we're

looking at that's kind of what we're thinking about when we're talking about are you going to trade up

and go get somebody in this first round at the end of the first round and why frankly you know

you kind of mentioned this in the first segment the better option may be trading back we will find

out here in about a month cannot wait the NFL draft is almost here thank you all for listening

today and we will talk to you next week