Update | The Chiefs selected line backer Leo Chenal with the 103rd pick in the NFL Draft on Friday night.
Chenal played his college ball at the University of Wisconsin.
Update | With the 91st pick, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected running back Rachaad White.
White, a Kansas City native, finished his college career at Arizona State.
He attended Center High School.
Update |With the 62nd pick in the second round, the Chiefs selected safety Bryan Cook from the University of Cincinnati.
With the pick, the Chiefs how now used three of their first four picks on defensive players.
Update | After trading off their 50th pick to the Patriots, the Chiefs selected wide receiver Skyy Moore.
Moore played his college football at Western Michigan.
He's 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 195 pounds.
Update | The Kansas City Chiefs traded their 50th pick in the second round of the NFL Draft to the New England Patriots.
In exchange, the Chiefs received the 54th pick in the second round and the 158th pick the in the fifth round.
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Update |A Wichita, Kansas, native is heading to the NFL after being selected by the New York Jets.
Breece Hall, who attended Iowa State University, was selected in the second round of the NFL draft on Friday.
Hall graduated from Wichita Northwest High School.
Original story | During the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft, the Kansas City Chiefs moved up eight spots to No. 21 overall in a trade with New England to select Washington cornerback Trent McDuffie and stayed put nine picks later to snag Purdue defensive end George Karlaftis.
The selections address two of the team’s biggest needs on defense.
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“I think (Friday) the board will get even crazier in terms of where teams see their talent,” General Manager Brett Veach said. “We went in knowing we wanted some defensive line help and we wanted some corner help, and we got two really good players. We knew we didn’t want to get too cute with it.”
Veach was stunned when McDuffie — a versatile, smart and athletic boundary corner — slipped into the Chiefs’ range, but it made for an easy choice to try and move up.
“With our first pick — it’s a little funny — every year we go through what we think is every scenario possible,” Veach said. “We didn’t go over McDuffie’s scenario. I don’t think we thought he’d be there.”
With cornerbacks Charvarius Ward and Mike Hughes gone from last season’s roster, the position was a glaring need for Kansas City entering the draft.
The same could be said for defensive end, considering the Chiefs’ struggles rushing the passer last season.
The experiment with moving defensive tackle Chris Jones outside was a bust.
Veach reworked Frank Clark’s contract rather than eat $13.6 million in dead money, which would have accrued against the cap by cutting him, so he’s back along with Mike Danna.
But Melvin Ingram, a difference-making midseason acquisition, remains unsigned and Kansas City lacked depth at the position.
With the 30th overall pick, the Chiefs addressed that need by adding Karlaftis, who had 14 sacks and 29 tackles for loss in 26 career games with the Boilermakers.
Karlaftis is a powerful rusher, who fits best opposite Clark, at the left defensive end spot, but he’s got enough size to bump inside in select situations and plays with a high motor.
“These were easier picks for us because, when you get talent plus work ethic and character like that, those guys rarely fail,” Veach said. “These guys, their profiles are like Creed Humphrey and (LB) Nick Bolton — good players, who do things the right way. They’re hard to pass up on.”
Moving into Day 2 of the draft, the Chiefs currently have three picks slated for Friday — two in the second round, Nos. 50 and 62, and one in the third, No. 103.
Kansas City also enters the day with a fourth-round pick (No. 135) and four seventh-round picks after dealing a third- (No. 94) and fourth-round pick (No. 121) to the Patriots to move up for McDuffie.
Wondering who’s still available and what the Chiefs might do to fill remaining needs at wide receiver, edge-rushing depth, more additions in the secondary and offensive tackle depth among other options?
Only one player from Nick Jacobs' sixth annual Chiefs' "Best Fits" Draft Board remains with a first-round grade — USC edge rusher Drake Jackson — but that doesn't mean there isn't plenty of talent yet to be picked.
Here is a look at the best remaining players at key positions from Jacobs' big board:
Wide receivers
Offensive tackles
Defensive ends
Defensive tackles
Linebackers
Cornerbacks
Safeties
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