I really like this roster and think with the draft, it is really going to be looking good.

Below I am showing the Chiefs roster along with their contracts. Also added within each position group, a draft slot that we have and what the Chiefs MIGHT be able to draft with that position.

I'm not married to the results. I know we can trade and move around. Just want to show a possibility.

Offense -

Quarterbacks (3/2)
• 15 Patrick Mahomes, Age 26, 6-3, 227, (2022 $35.8M, 2023 46.8M…2031 $52.5)
• 4 Chad Henne, Age 37, 6-3, 215, ($3,265,000)
• 6 Shane Buechele, Age 23. 6-0, 208, (2022 $825K, 2023 ERFA)

Running backs (5/5) Draft (135) Ty Chandler, North Carolina, Rachaad White, Arizona State, Tyler Badie, Missouri, Pierre Strong, South Dakota State, or Dameon Pierce, Florida

• 45 Michael Burton FB, Age 29, 6-0, 243, (2022, $1,047,500)
• 25 Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Age 22, 5-8, 205, (2022 $2.9M, 2023 3.4M)
• Ronald Jones II, Age 25, 5-11, 208, (2022 Max $5M)
• 40 Derrick Gore, Age 27, 5-10, 207, (2022 ERFA $825)
• Brendon Knox, Age 23, 5-11, 220, Signed to Futures contract $705

o 1 Jerick McKinnon Age 29, 5-9. 201, (2022 Free Agent) unsigned
o 31 Darrel Williams, Age 26, 5-11, 219, (2022 Free Agent) unsigned

Wide receivers (13/6) Draft (29) Drake London, USC, Chris Olave, Ohio State, Treylon Burks, Arkansas, Skyy Moore, Western Michigan, or Jahan Dotson, Penn State

• 17 Mecole Hardman, Age 23, 5-10, 180, (2022 $4.399M)
• 11 Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Age 27, 6-4, 206 (3yr $30M)
• 9 JuJu Smith-Schuster Age 25, 6-1, 215 (2022 $2.89M)
• Corey Coleman, Age 27, 5-10, 185, (2022 $965K)
• 19 Josh Gordon, Age 30, 6-3, 238, Re-signed to Futures contract, $895K
• 12 Gehrig Dieter, Age 28, 6-3, 208 Re-signed to Futures contract, $895K
• 82 Daurice Fountain, Age 26, 6-1, 212 Re-signed to Futures contract $965K
• 14 Cornell Powell, Age 24, 6-0, 210 Re-signed to Futures contract $705K
• Chris Finke, Age 25, 5-10, 184, Signed to Futures contract. $705K
• Justin Watson, Age 25, 6-3, 215, Signed to Futures contract. $895K
• Omar Bayless, Age 25, 6-1, 210, Signed to Futures contract. $705K
• Mathew Sexton, Age 24, 5-11, 175, Signed to Futures contract. $705K
• Gary Jennings, Age 24, 6-1, 216, Signed to Futures contract. $825K

o 10 Tyreek Hill, Age 27, 5-10, 185, Miami Dolphins 4yr $120M
o 13 Byron Pringle, Age 28, 6-1, 201, Chicago Bears 1yr $4.125M
o 11 Demarcus Robinson, Age 27, 6-1, 202, Las Vegas Raiders 1yr $1,187M
o 85 Marcus Kemp Age 26, 6-4, 208, (2022 Free Agent) unsigned

Tight ends (9/3) Draft (121) Jelani Woods, Virginia, Jeremy Ruckert, Ohio State, Charlie Kolar, Iowa State, or Jelen Wydermyer, Texas A&M

• 83 Noah Gray, Age 22, 6-4, 243, (2022 $903K, 2023 $1.018M, 2024 $1.133M)
• 87 Travis Kelce, Age 32, 6-5, 256, (2022 $8.9M, 2023 $14.65M, 2024 $16.4M, 2025 $18.65M)
• 88 Jody Fortson, Age 26, 6-6, 240 (2022 ERFA $825K) PUP/IR
• 81 Blake Bell, Age 30, 6-6, 260, (2022 ?)
• 48 Nakia Griffin-Stewart, Age 25, 6-5, 260 Re-signed to Futures contract. $705 K
• 80 Mark Vital TE, Age 25, 6-5, 250, Re-signed to Futures contract. $705 K
• Jordan Franks, 6-4, 250, Signed to Futures contract. $825 K
• Josh Pederson, Age 24, 6-5. 235, Signed to Futures contract. $705 K
• 84 Matt Bushman, Age 26, 6-5, 245, Re-signed to Futures contract. $705 K

Offensive Linemen (12/10) Draft (94) Kellen Diesch, Arizona State. Cordell Volson, North Dakota State, Rasheed Walker, Penn State, Max Mitchell, Louisiana, or Braxton Jones Southern Utah Late round (251) Austin Deculus, LSU

• 73 Nick Allegretti G, Age 25, 6-4, 315, (2022 $1.003M)
• 57 Orlando Brown Jr. T, Age 25, 6-8, 363, (2022 Tag, $16,6M) Contract Projection: ($21M per year).
• 52 Creed Humphrey C, Age 22, 6-5, 309, (2022 $1.264M. 2023 $1.517M, 2024 $1.770M)
• 67 Lucas Niang T, Age 23, 6-6, 339, (2022 $1.071M. 2023 $1.207M, 2024 $1.321M) PUP/IR
• 65 Trey Smith G, Age 22, 6-6, 329, (2022 $857K. 2023 $972K, 2024 $1.087M)
• 70 Prince Tega Wanogho T, Age 24, 6-5, 303, (2022 $825K, 2023 ERFA)
• 62 Joe Thuney G, Age 29, 6-5, 304, (2022 $8.1M. 2023 $22.1M, 2024 $22.6M, 2025 $22.6M)
• 77 Andrew Wylie T/G, Age 28, 6-6, 310, (2022 $1,187,500)
• Geron Christian OT, Age 26, 6-5, 303, (2022 $1,047,500)
• 64 Darryl Williams C, Age 24, 6-2, 304, Re-signed to Futures contract. $705 K
• Roderick Johnson OT, Age 26, 6-6, 300, Re-signed to Futures contract. $965 K
• Austin Reiter, Age 30, 6-3, 300 (2022 ?)

o 66 Austin Blythe C, Age 29, 6-2, 280, Seattle Seahawks 1yr $4M
o 69 Kyle Long G, Age 33, 6-6, 332, (2022 Free Agent) unsigned
o 75 Mike Remmers T (IR), Age 32, 6-5, 301, (2022 Free Agent) unsigned

Every mock i've done its let me do it for a first and second, which I'd do. Others can tell me if that's unrealistic. 2 firsts and a second sounds a lot to me.

Defense

Defensive linemen (13/9) DE (6), DT (7) – Looking at FA DE Arden Keys. Draft (50) Cameron Thomas, San Diego State, Boye Mafe, Minnesota, Arnold Ebiketie. Penn State, Kingsley Enagbare, South Carolina, or Sam Williams Mississippi. Late Round (233) Neil Farrel Jr., LSU or Tayland Humphrey, Louisiana

• 55 Frank Clark DE, Age 28, 6-3, 261, (2022 $13.7M, 2023 $28,675,000)
• 51 Mike Danna DE, Age 24, 6-2, 255, (2022 $961K, 2023 $1M)
• 95 Chris Jones DT, Age 27, 6-6, 298, (2022 $29.4M, 2023 $27M)
• 99 Khalen Saunders DT Age 25, 6-0, 324, (2022 $1.218M)
• 59 Joshua Kaindoh DE Age 23, 6-7, 262, (2022 $949K. 2023 $1.064M, 2024 $1.179M)
• 70 Malik Herring DE Age 24, 6-3, 280 (2022 $833K, 2023 $949K, 2024 RFA)
• 98 Tershawn Wharton DT, Age 23, 6-4, 278, (2022, $896,668, 2023 RFA)
• 91 Derrick Nnadi DT, Age 25, 6-1, 317, (2022 $2.75M)
• 79 Cortez Broughton DT, Age 25, 6-2, 293, Re-signed to Futures contract. $895 K
• 60 Austin Edwards DE, Age 24, 6-5, 273, Re-signed to Futures contract. $705 K
• Lorenzo Neal Jr, DT Age 24, 6-3, 325, Signed to Futures contract. $705 K
• Darius Stills, DT, Age 23, 6-0, 278, Signed to Futures contract. $705 K
• Jonathan Woodard, DE, Age 28, 6-5, 271, Signed to Futures contract. $895 K

o 24 Melvin Ingram DE, Age 32, 6-2, 247, (2022 Free Agent) unsigned
o 97 Alex Okafor DE, Age 30, 6-4, 261, (2022 Free Agent) unsigned
o 90 Jarran Reed DT, Age 29, 6-3, 313, Green Bay Packers 1yr $3.25M

Linebackers (6/5) Draft (62) Quay Walker, Georgia, Brandon Smith Penn State, Leo Chenal Wisconsin, Chad Muma, Wyoming, or Troy Anderson, Montana State. Later Round (243) Malcom Rodriguez, Oklahoma State

• 54 Nick Bolton MLB, Age 21, 6-0, 237), (2022 $1.3M. 2023 $1.591M, 2024 $1.856M)
• 50 Willie Gay Jr OLB, Age 23, 6-1, 235, (2022 $1.4M, 2023 $1.677M)
• Elijah Lee LB, Age 26, 6-3, 230, (2022 $915K)
• Jermaine Carter Jr LB, Age 27, 6-1, 225 1yr ?
• 47 Darius Harris OLB, Age 25, 6-2, 240, Re-signed to Futures contract. $825 K
• 92 Shilique Calhoun LB, Age 30, 6-5, 260, Re-signed to Futures contract. $895

o 53 Anthony Hitchens OLB, Age 29, 6-0, 231, Released, unsigned.
o 56 Ben Niemann MLB, Age 26, 6-2, 233, (2022 Free Agent) unsigned
o 44 Dorian O'Daniel OLB, Age 27, 6-1, 217, (2022 Free Agent) unsigned


Defensive backs (11/10) Looking at FA CB Stephon Gilmore or trade for NYG CB James Bradberry Draft (30) Roger McCreary, Auburn, Kaiir Elam, Florida, or Kyler Gordon, Washington and Draft (103) S Nick Cross, Maryland , JoJo Domann, Nebraska, or Verone McKinley III Oregon

• 39 Zayne Anderson FS, Age 24, 6-2, 205, (2022 $825K 2023 ERFA)
• 30 Deandre Baker CB, Age 24, 5-11, 186, (2022 ERFA), Re-sign $965K
• 27 Rashad Fenton CB, Age 24, 5-11, 193, (2022 $2.578M)
• 38 L'Jarius Sneed CB, Age 24, 6-1, 189, (2022 $1.053M. 2023 $1.168M )
• 22 Juan Thornhill FS, Age 26, 6-0, 203, (2022 $3.134 M)
• 20 Justin Reid S, Age 25, 6-1, 205, (2022 $4.55M, 2023 $12.7M, 2024 $14.25 M)
• Luq Barcoo, CB, Age 24, 6-1, 180, (2022 $895K)
• 2 Dicaprio Bootle CB/S, Age 24, 5-10, 182, Re-signed to Futures contract. $705
• 24 Devon Key SS, Age 24, 6-0, 204, Re-signed to Futures contract. $705K
• Brandin Dandridge CB, Age 25, 5-10,180, Signed to Futures contract. $705K
• Deon Bush S, Age 29, 6-0,187 1yr ?

• 35 Charvarius Ward CB, Age 25, 6-1, 195, San Francisco 49ers 3yr $40M
• 21 Mike Hughes CB, Age 24, 5-10, 186, Detroit Lions 1yr $2.25M
• 23 Armani Watts SS, Age 25, 5-11, 190, (2022 Free Agent) unsigned
• 49 Daniel Sorensen FS, Age 31, 6-2, 200, New Orleans Saints 1yr
• 32 Tyrann Mathieu SS, Age 29, 5-9, 190, (2022 Free Agent) unsigned
• 26 Chris Lammons CB, Age 25, 5-10, 182 , (Free Agent) unsigned with legal issues

Special teams (3/3)
• 7 Harrison Butker K, Age 26, 6-4, 196, (2022 $4.2M. 2023 $4.4M, 2024 $3.8M)
• 5 Tommy Townsend P, Age 25, 6-1, 194, (2022 $897 K, 2023 RFA)
• 41 James Winchester LS, Age 32, 6-3, 242 signed extension through 2023.

Nice work.

So you're actually arguing that the current Chiefs receiving corps are fine as is, and are on par with the rest of the divisions??? lMAO

There's really no reason at all to even consider the roster as it stands; with 12 picks in the draft, cap space, and what...two waves of FA still to go, the roster in September will look much, much different.

Don't freak out right now. Embrace change.

This is very true. But I'll wait to embrace change until I see the finished product.

Thanks for your breakdowns, Wilson. Other than the loss of Hill on offense, I don't see anyone else we'll miss. I wouldn't mind having McKinnon back, but I'd wait until after the draft.

You can't deny losing Ward hurt. I'm not going to address Mathieu, he's dead to me. I wouldn't be too upset if we resigned Ingram on the cheap, but again no one seems to be knocking down his door.

I would like to see a WR in the 1st along with a DE. I don't think we have to trade up to get quality at both those slots. A couple of CBs in the 2nd or 1 each in rounds 2 and 3 would be nice. I wouldn't be opposed to packaging a couple 7s along with a 4th to move up for another WR. When you get right down to it, the money is made in rounds 2-4. We might just be better off to see who's available as an UDFA and take a long look at those already signed to futures contracts.

Like Chris said, we still have a couple rounds of FA to go, so there's no sense in spending all our available money right now.

Just need a WR1/WR depth, DE reinforcements, a nickel CB/depth and the Chiefs are set.

I don't think we need to chase a WR1 in FA, but rather get those in the draft. With MVS and Juju in hand for this season, we can groom that rookie (or 2). Unless Hardman has a breakout season, he probably won't demand something we can't afford next year. WRs 5-6 are normally ST guys you put in the game because someone got dinged. Seriously, does anyone think we're going to go 10-7 without Kemp or DRob?

Ok? And they still have 2 more players who had more yards than Juju and MVS and Hardman. With a lot worse qbs.

So same list as before free agency started except now we're also looking for starters as well as depth. Splendid.

Yes, but now we have more resources to fill these positions and have a lot more flexibility beyond that in future years. Is that really so hard to acknowledge?

Outside of our superstar QB it’s a pretty average roster.

This draft is so huge for the future of this franchise. Veach needs to hit on these picks. We need to get a couple pass-rushers, WR and help in the secondary.

I understand. The thing is that you want to act like the draft is anything close to a sure thing and that we'll get contender level play from a bunch of rookies. History says that's not likely to happen. And that's why it sucks having the same/bigger needs than when we started free agency. We won't even be able to develop rookies slowly and at their own pace because we kind of need them to be good right away.