If you expect the Director General of Kansas City Chiefs, Brett Veach, will come back from the first round in the NFL draft next week … Do not hold your breath.
It is not that Veach will not be opened there. It’s just when you choose as late that Kansas City does it every year, fewer teams try to go up and get your choice.
“I think that in general, the number of calls you ask to exchange is lower – at least according to my experience,” VEACH told journalists on Thursday. “We, I think, certainly do a very good work of setting up calls – and it is not as if we did not answer calls or that we do not make calls.
“You know, a lot of this could have to do with (in) (in) Day 1 and day 2, your choices are so late, these teams can look like the last chance to get the guy they want, that’s to climb higher.”
To put it simply, Veach said that when you debate these things, the question is not to know if you should have exchange. Most often, it is if you could have exchange. For a team in position of the chiefs, there are generally not many teams ready to conclude such an agreement.
And Veach rejected the idea that Kansas City could end up exchanging because another team wants to obtain a first-round quarter who will be under their control for at least five years.
“I don’t think it worked,” he said. “These quarter-arre did not go or went above. Maybe the year occurs.”
But it’s not just a lack of opportunity.
“I certainly tend to be aggressive,” said Veach.
But he also noted that the upper end of the 2025 draft is not as deep as in previous years – and that the middle of the peloton is deeper.
“Probably fair from the point of view of the pure number,” he explained, “(there is) more probability that could occur when you have on the front numbers – which means that 75 or more on our rating system being low – but while the next 70 to 65 (in the classification system), the figures are higher – I think that from this point of view, I think that could be in our Wheelhouse.”
Veach considers that in recent years there have been players who have slipped into a range that chefs can reach with a job. It also adds to its reputation as GM who likes to exchange.
“I think there is always – or at least it has worked in this way in recent years – a guy (we have loved),” he noted. “(Xavier) Worthy was one of these guys from last year – but we will see.”
In the recent memory of Veach, there were only a few times when he had many first calls on trade.
“There may have been a project where we have received several calls on negotiation,” he recalls, “and we have not done so. But apart from that a year in the last four or five years, I do not remember having received a ton of calls on day 1. (There was) a little more on day 2.”
Later, however, requests for information may resume.
“You are going to receive many more calls on day 3,” said Veach, “just because the scores (between the teams) are everywhere on the board.”
Soon we will know how things will take place. The draft begins next Thursday at 7 p.m.
