Chiefs Draft: ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. picks wideout and sort out in new mock

On Wednesday, ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper printed his fourth mock draft of the 2024 offseason. This one covers each the primary and second rounds.

Kiper’s mock predicts that three quarterbacks will taken with the opening picks. He thinks the Cardinals will commerce into the fourth decide to get Ohio State huge receiver Marvin Harrison, Jr., whereas the Vikings will commerce into the fifth spot to pick Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy. By the point the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs are on the clock for the thirty second decide, Kiper initiatives that seven offensive tackles and 5 wideouts can have been taken.

32. Kansas Metropolis Chiefs: WR Xavier Legette, South Carolina

One other mock draft, one other wideout related with Chiefs to finish Spherical 1. Legette made a leap in 2023, placing up 1,255 receiving yards with seven touchdowns. He had simply 167 yards in all the 2022 season. He then ran an eye-popping 4.39-second 40-yard sprint on the mix, solidifying himself among the many prime 10 prospects at his place. Kansas Metropolis added Marquise Brown however wants so as to add extra pass-catchers this offseason.

Kiper stays true to kind, sending a large receiver to Kansas Metropolis for the fourth straight time this offseason. (He went with Oregon’s Troy Franklin in his 1.0 mock in January, adopted by two Texas wideouts: Xavier Worthy in 2.0 on February 28 and Adonai Mitchell in 3.0 on March 19).

On this mock, Franklin goes to the Indianapolis Colts at forty sixth, Worthy is prejected to the Los Angeles Chargers (after they commerce into the twenty third spot) and Mitchell lands with the Detroit Lions by way of the twenty ninth choice. Kiper believes the Chiefs will take Legette over Florida State’s Keon Coleman (taken thirty fourth), Florida’s Ricky Pearsall (thirty eighth) and Georgia’s Ladd McConkey (thirty ninth). With this decide, Kiper can also be considering the Chiefs will cross on tackles like Arizona’s Jordan Morgan (chosen thirty sixth) and Houston’s Patrick Paul (fiftieth).

However Kiper additionally thinks Kansas Metropolis will purchase the draft’s tenth sort out.

64. Kansas Metropolis Chiefs: OT Kingsley Suamataia, BYU

With 2023 starter Donovan Smith unsigned, the Chiefs have Wanya Morris at left sort out however not a lot else. They need to usher in competitors. Suamataia, my No. 9 OT on this class, took snaps at each left and proper sort out in faculty, however he made large strides whereas enjoying on the left aspect final season. He’s robust and fast, and he has the ft to get to the second degree within the run recreation.

Within the final two weeks of March — that’s, after the Chiefs signed free agent wideout Hollywood Brown, however earlier than second-year huge receiver Rashee Rice was concerned in a visitors accident in Texas — most mocks had been projecting a sort out to Kansas Metropolis within the first spherical.

Since then — whereas few have particularly talked about Rice’s scenario as an element — most have gone again to the Chiefs taking a wideout within the opening spherical. As Kiper’s mock exhibits, it may nonetheless be attainable for the workforce to get a stable sort out within the second spherical; a handful of mocks have despatched Suamataia to Kansas Metropolis within the first spherical.