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Chiefs need more defensive hits than misses in this year's draft

The Kansas City Chiefs have drafted 38 players over the last five years, or since Andy Reid arrived as their head coach in 2013. They invested those resources for the most part equally between offensive and defensive players, with 20 playing on offense and 18 on defense.

They went right down the middle over the first three rounds, with seven offensive and seven defensive players.

The results varied to a staggering degree. The Chiefs have found most of their better offensive players (Travis Kelce, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Mitch Morse, Tyreek Hill, Patrick Mahomes II and Kareem Hunt) in those drafts.