Mock (12/28)
 

Assumptions:

1. The Chiefs finish 9-7, win the AFC West, and secure the 4th seed. They host the Ravens and win, 24-17. They go to New England and lose, 35-17. HC Andy Reid and GM Brett Veach stay on.

2. The Chiefs trade QB Alex Smith for a 2018 2nd and 2019 conditional, and trade DE Allen Bailey for a 2018 4th and 2019 4th.

3. OLB Tamba Hali and ILB Derrick Johnson retire.

4. The Chiefs extend C Mitch Morse 4 years, $21m ($11m guaranteed).

4. The Chiefs sign WR Albert Wilson 1 year, $3m ($500k guaranteed).

6. The Chiefs tender NT Rakeem Nunez-Roches.

7. The Chiefs sign QB Tyler Bray, RB Akeem Hunt, FB Anthony Sherman, DE Jarvis Jenkins, ILB Kevin Pierre-Louis, ILB Terrance Smith, CB Kenneth Acker to minimal deals.

8. The Chiefs let walk RB Akeem Hunt, WR De'Anthony Thomas, OL Jordan Devey, NT Bennie Logan, ILB Ramik Wilson, CB Terrance Mitchell, CB Phillip Gaines, P Dustin Colquitt.

9. The Chiefs sign QB Chad Henne (Jaguars) for 1 year, $3m, TE Virgil Green (Broncos) for 1 year, $2m, OG Jonathan Cooper (Cowboys) for 2 years, $6m, NT Sealver Siliga (Buccaneers) for 1 year, $2m, DE Kyle Williams (Bills) for 2 years, $10m ($2m guaranteed).

10. The Chiefs are picking 25th, and have one compensatory pick (a 6th) for QB Nick Foles. They have three conditionals: a 6th for OT Isaiah Battle, a 7th for DE David King, and a 7th for CB Marcus Cooper.

The draft:

2 (Smith). OLB Tyquan Lewis, Ohio State
2. DL Reginald McKenzie Jr., Tennessee
3. CB Jordan Wyatt, SMU
4 (Bailey). OT Chukwuma Okorafor, Western Michigan
4. OG Brendan Mahon, Penn State
6 (Battle). TE Marcus Baugh, Ohio State
6. ILB Roquan Smith, Georgia
6 (Foles). P some dude, Some Dude U
7 (Cooper). WR Darren Carrington, Utah
7 (King). DL Parker Cothren, Penn State

roster:

QB: Mahomes, Henne, Bray
RB: Hunt, Ware, West
FB: Sherman

WR: Hill, Conley, Wilson, Robinson, Chesson, Carrington
TE: Kelce, Green, Harris, Baugh

LT: Fisher, Witzmann
LG: Cooper, Ehinger
C: Morse, Erving
RG: Duvarney-Tardif, Ehinger, Mahon
RT: Schwartz, Witzmann, Okorafor

DE: Jones, Jenkins
NT: Nunez-Roches, Siliga
DE: Williams, McKenzie, Cothren

OLB: Ford, Kpassagnon
ILB: Ragland, Smith
ILB: Pierre-Louis, Eligwe, Smith
OLB: Houston, Lewis

CB: Peters, Revis, Nelson, Wyatt, Acker
S: Berry, Parker, Sorensen, Murray, McQuay

K: Butker
P: some dude
LS: Winchester

you have Akeem Hunt in both #7 & #8

Not bad. Hard to get too excited about anything without having a first round pick.

And while I generally agree with focusing on the defense, I think outside of OLB, I think CB is a much higher need. And, I'm not sure the move to trade Bailey really works out for us if he only returns a 4th rounder. I think I'd rather have him in the line up.

You want them to sign Kyle Williams so badly you have a boner.

Haha.

I think he’d be an awesome signing.

Still playing pretty well, should be cheap, and would provide immediate leadership on a defense that lost Hali and DJ.

We lose Bailey, but we gain his cap space.

Signing Akeem Hunt only to cut him is a bold move, Cotton

Heh.

An oversight. But don’t pretend teams don’t do that all the time.

I wouldn't get rid of Mitchell. He's a RFA, gonna be too cheap to just cut loose. Plays pretty well at times and is always tight in coverage.

They don’t put it in their offseason plans.

And Hunt has value as a kick returner and 3rd or 4th running back.

He is not a rfa

Roquan Smith in the 6th round????

More like 6th overall. I think you are confused. If he was accused of murder, we couldn't get him
in the 6th. He is the best MLB prospect since Keuchly or Willis. He is probably the best player in this draft.

Some Guy.

Son of Ray Guy.

Brilliant.

Yeah that's the problem.

Cap space so we can get a bunch of low dollar filler? PASS

He is because he hasn't accrued 4 full seasons yet of at least 6 games. Just 3 of those seasons.