Among the players the Kansas City Chiefs kept for their initial 53-man roster on Tuesday was former Kentucky offensive lineman Darian Kinnard, whom the team had selected in the fifth round (145th overall) in last April’s NFL Draft.
At the time, there was a belief that Kinnard had been taken later in the draft than he (and some others) had anticipated.
“All the feedback I got was second round — maybe, at best, squeezing to the bottom of the first — and the lowest would be the third round,” Kinnard told reporters in a Zoom call after being selected.