The Kansas City Chiefs are your reigning Super Bowl champions. It doesn’t get old saying it, right?

With the 2019 season soon to be a thing of the past, the focus will turn to the 2020 NFL Draft and adding to the young nucleus of this football team. A monster contract is just around the corner for star QB Patrick Mahomes, and with it comes an added pressure of drafting well.

For the purposes of this mock draft, we’re still operating without the knowledge of what happens in free agency. That can and likely will change the strategy of how the team approaches things in April.

Keep in mind that the draft order beyond the third round is not final yet. The NFL hasn’t announced compensatory picks, and while the Chiefs are not projected to receive any, they’ll pick later in the fourth and fifth round because of compensatory picks added to rounds prior.

Also general manager Brett Veach only has five draft picks to work with right now. If we know anything about Veach, it’s that he’s unafraid to make trades in order to secure the players that he wants.

Round 1, Pick 32 – Arizona State WR Brandon Aiyuk 

A bit of a curveball in the first round for the Chiefs. Right now, the most popular picks seem to be adding a running back or a cornerback at the end of the first round. In my eyes, if the Chiefs are to continue their success, they need to keep a healthy arsenal of weapons for QB Patrick Mahomes.

There’s a lot to like about Aiyuk’s game. He’s not the most refined route runner, however, he stills manages to find a way to win on vertical routes. He’s extremely explosive with the ball in his hands and capable of turning a quick slant into a 70-yard touchdown. He definitely has that extra gear that NFL teams are looking for.

Aiyuk didn’t play in the Senior Bowl, but Jim Nagy gave a glowing endorsement of the receiver.

“I haven’t met a team that doesn’t have Brandon Aiyuk graded above N’Keal Harry from last year,” Nagy said. 

Harry, of course, also went to Arizona State and was drafted No. 32 overall in 2018.

There are two things that the Chiefs won’t like about Aiyuk’s game. First up is that he’s allergic to contact at the line of scrimmage. I think this can be coached out of him because he’s physical when working through contact with the ball in his hands. The next problem is that he’s not the most willing blocker. I’ve seen good reps from him working as a stalk blocker but other times he seems oblivious to the play around him. That’ll have to change in Kansas City, but again, I think that’s where coaching will come into play.