Since taking over as Kansas City Chiefs general manager back in 2017, Brett Veach has shown a willingness to be aggressive at certain times during the NFL Draft. 2018’s draft saw Veach trade up three times. In 2019, Veach traded up once — and in 2020, he traded back into the draft’s final round.
Veach and the Chiefs only made one draft-day trade in 2021: a pick exchange with the New York Jets to land Duke tight end Noah Gray in the fifth round.
Kansas City traded its first of two 2021 fifth-round picks (No.