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The Kansas City Chiefs went into the 2020 NFL Draft with only five picks and they ended up making six selections. In 2021, Chiefs fans can expect them to start off with more picks, at least for now anyway.
Starting at 4 p.m. ET on Monday, all free agent signings and departures will no longer count toward the NFL’s compensatory pick formula. That means if the Chiefs go out and sign a big-name free agent, like Jadeveon Clowney for instance, he will no longer have any impact on the compensatory picks that the Chiefs are set to receive. Conversely, It also means that if someone goes out and signs Darron Lee or one of the other remaining Chiefs free agents, they won’t add to the bounty of compensatory picks for 2021.
So how many compensatory picks art the Chiefs projected to receive in 2021? According to Nick Korte at OverTheCap, there will be a fourth-round pick for Kendall Fuller’s contract and a fifth-round pick for Emmanuel Ogbah’s contract. That brings the pick total in the 2021 NFL Draft for Kansas City up to eight. Check it out:
- 1st round, pick ??
- 2nd round, pick ??
- 3rd round, pick ??
- 4th round, pick ??
- 4th round (comp)
- 5th round, pick ??
- 5th round (comp)
- 7th round, pick ??
The Chiefs don’t have a sixth-round pick in 2021 anymore because they used that pick on Saturday, to trade back into the seventh-round with the Titans, and select Tulane CB BoPete Keyes.
Now, I prefaced this article by saying these are the picks Kansas City has for now. It’s important to remember that the reason the Chiefs had five picks in 2020, to begin with, is that Brett Veach traded their sixth and seventh-round picks for Jordan Lucas and Darron Lee respectively. It wouldn’t surprise me if Veach attempted to acquire another veteran player ahead of the start of the 2021 season.
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