Night one of the NFL Draft is always about the future, but for Kansas City Chiefs general manager Brett Veach, the 2018 edition was just as much about the past.
Last year, Veach, then the Chiefs’ co-director of player personnel under John Dorsey, was part of the staff that made sure Patrick Mahomes became a Chief, a move that required the forfeiting of this year’s first-round pick to the Buffalo Bills.
With no first-rounder this year, Veach watched the draft a little more closely. And what he found was though there was no move to make (not for lack of trying—the Chiefs made calls from picks 27 to 32), the organization was in the best possible place because of it.