There are just 33 days to go until the first round of the 2023 NFL draft.
This is our second full 7-round mock draft on Chiefs Wire for 2023 (find 1.0 here), coming after the first few waves of free agency. We’ll be sharing different mock drafts with varying themes into late April, but this time around, we’re attacking things after the first wave of free agency.
The Chiefs have retained several pieces and made four key additions in Jawaan Taylor, Charles Omenihu, Drue Tranquill and Mike Edwards. They still have quite a few vacancies to fill on the 90-man offseason roster and a lot of those will come through the draft.
In order to gauge player availability for the mock draft, I ran multiple simulations. If players weren’t available with regularity, they were eliminated from contention at a specific pick. Typically, that gives us 8-10 players on the big board to choose from at a given pick.
This time around, we’re trading out of the first round. Everyone expects Brett Veach to be bold and move up with the draft in Kansas City. I think that he could seek to move out of the first round under the right circumstances in order to target specific pockets of players. We’re going with the trade terms from our NFL Wire Network mock draft, moving down with Green Bay. You can find the terms of that trade here.
Without further delay, here’s a look at our mock draft version 2.0: