Laddie Morse
Yesterday, the Kansas City Chiefs General Manager had his annual pre-draft Press Conference with local media over zoom. Local media included: Nick Jacobs, Matt Derrick, Pete Sweeney, Harold R. Kuntz, Matt McMullen, and Soren Petro among others. Here are some highlights of that meeting.
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“GM Brett Veach on pre-draft visits: Having the
whole day and getting to know the person and
understand the person more, talk through football,
talk through their upbringing is extremely important
to us. Also says medicals are extremely important.”
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One of the local media asked Brett Veach how many prospects he had on his board. Veach replied that he knew someone would ask that question and(0:55):
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“I think O-line, receivers [and] corners are good
hot spots throughout the draft – and that’s a
good thing because we could use one
of each of those.” – Chiefs GM Brett Veach
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“Veach says they see 16-18 players as 1st Round
grades, 5 at QBs. If they have one available near
their 1st Round pick, they’ll try to be aggressive to
move up.”
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Veach was asked if he could envision himself going up to the top 10 or 15 to take a non-quarterback and here’s what he said, with a snarky grin I might add. (1:21):
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This was quoted of Brett Veach by a-to-zsports.com:
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“Listen, every situation is unique. I mean, we’ve had conversations in the last few years about guys that we consider top five, top six prospects, if they were to fall into the teens moving up and (we) got Clark (Hunt) and Andy (Reid) involved, and they were all in it and those situations just didn’t work out.”
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Veach addressed the idea that the 4th, 5th, and 6th round picks of this draft will have older players because of the new college NIL rules:
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Brett Veach was also asked about the progress of Skyy Moore and Kadarius Toney to which he replied:
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Although I watched this whole zoom media event… more than 25 minutes worth… I found the Pre-draft Press Conference to be nearly useless. Telling us that OL, WR, and CB is a hot spot for this draft is something we already knew. Telling us many things we already knew was… nearly useless, IMHO. Although it’s nice to know the number of prospects on his board is sitting at 221, that just means there are many, many more prospects in this draft that have a chance of becoming Chiefs. Plus, while I recall that number being much lower in previous years, it’s not really helpful to know that more prospects could possibly become Chiefs.
Not sure I believe Veach when he says the Rashee Rice situation doesn’t impact his draft decisions when he’s already said that their biggest needs include WR.
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One interesting perspective about the NIL Effect that I found was…
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From Matt McMullen at chiefs.com also shared:
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Was there something shared here that was helpful to you?
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Laddie Morse — ArrowheadOne
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