LNBS: This draft can set us up for long term success
 

We all know that the cap is going to explode and a lot of our star players contracts will during that time, as well. Including Mahomes. That’s why this draft is so incredibly important.

Here’s why.

If you’re drafting a guard, LB, Center, safety or other position that second contracts cost 10-15m per year, they need to play well right away to get a good ROI on the pick in relation to the cap.

If you draft a stud WR or an above average LT in the late first, that’s 20-30m per year in value for the pick, so a 1 year acclimation period isn’t as big of a deal. Especially on the first rounders you get 5 years of cost control of. Not having to fill high price tag offensive positions through free agency is HUGE.

That’s why this is a PERFECT draft for the Kansas City Chiefs.

We have pressing needs at the positions this draft offers talent at in both quality and quantity. There are high quality WRs and OTs deep into the middle and even later rounds of this draft. Brett Veach is about to completely offset the expensive years of Mahomes contract by drafting huge values that we have needs at. I could see him getting 2 good WRs, a starting DE and a solid LT in this draft. Eliminating the need to bolster those positions for a few years through big free agent contracts.

Just the thought of having both OTs, 3WRs, CEH and Kelce (even as he ages, we will be grooming his eventual replacement) together and at mostly dirt cheap cap numbers to surround with top level playmakers coming into his prime makes my dick hard.

If Veach identifies the right talents at our need spots, that opens up the WHOLE CAP going forward over the next few years to go after big time defenders in free agency because the big price tags on offense will be filled.

You steal this headline from Teicher?

Still ****ing pissed no shit ass derpy team with a head coach vacancy hired Bieniemy.

Let them all rot in hell.

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Isn't this true of any draft? If you can draft well at high cost positions, then you are more likely to win because of cost control.

The Superbowl win rate for teams that don't have a QB on a rookie contract suggest its really ****ing hard to draft high paying skill positions players well enough to win a Superbowl while paying a QB what he is actually worth, I don't really see how this draft changes anything.

Veach not only drafts well but just gets great value in trades and the bottom of free agency.

Ward trade.
Osemele, Remmers type signings.

I really think Hollywood Brown would thrive in our offense and is a poor fit there. Would love to call them and see what they would take for him too.

Veach drafts, at best, inconsistently.

He’s had as many stinkers as he’s had hits.

Chiefs look to add talent via the draft

His first was bad, but he had no 1st.

The main thing is he is getting good players. I would like him to hit a few more home runs but that's not as easy as it sounds.

His first draft sucked but his second and third were just fine.

If people are complaining about a WR who averages 500 yards and 5 TD’s a year as the 3rd receiver then you know we’re doing fine

This.

Basically all of the 2019 picks outside of Saunders were hits.

2020 was a home run.

Burt’s drafts are clearly trending in the right direction.

Well, hopefully it is a trend that is heading in the right direction, but it could also just show that he is average and the ordering of good and bad is down to luck.

Interestingly, has there ever been a GM who was consistently drafted well above average for any sustained period?

Like it hasn't been this way for a decade. Might need to put the bottle down a little sooner.

Beach has generally hit on splash FAs, value signings, and trades.

If he’s merely average at drafting, he’s a top 2 GM.

And Reid tends to play vets over rookies, making Burt’s drafts seem less impactful.