There are just 12 days to go until the first round of the 2023 NFL draft.
This is our third full 7-round mock draft on Chiefs Wire for 2023 (find 1.0 here and 2.0 here). We’ll be sharing different mock drafts with varying themes into late April. The theme of this mock draft was to avoid the thing that Brett Veach loves most — trades. We traded up in 1.0 and traded down in 2.0. Now, we’re seeing what things could look like if Veach simply stands pat.
In order to gauge player availability for the mock draft, I ran multiple simulations on three different simulators. 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.
The Chiefs still have a few roster spots to fill. A friend of the site, KCSN’s Kristian Gumminger, believes that the team has seven open spots on the 53-man roster to fill through the draft, undrafted free agency and otherwise. They certainly have more spots to fill on the 90-man offseason roster, even after the recent additions of Richie James and Justin Watson.
Without further delay, here’s a look at our mock draft version 3.0: