Chiefs Draft: Conor Orr mock has trade-up for Texas WR Adonai Mitchell

On Tuesday, Sports activities Illustrated author Conor Orr revealed a 2024 mock draft that included 5 trades (and 6 quarterbacks) within the first spherical.

The final of those trades entails the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs — and paves the way in which for the sixth quarterback.

27. (TRADE) Kansas Metropolis Chiefs (by way of Cardinals): WR Adonai Mitchell, Texas

Sensing that the rival Buffalo Payments need their decide of the top-tier two huge receivers, the Chiefs transfer up with the Cardinals and provide Arizona with further constructing blocks for the longer term. The Chiefs, in the meantime, get themselves insurance coverage for Rashee Rice and one other swing at rebuilding Patrick Mahomes’s as soon as fabled receiving corps. Kansas Metropolis is approaching legendary territory with a potential three-peat on faucet, and it wants weapons.

4 extra picks are made — after which…

32. Arizona Cardinals: QB Michael Penix Jr., Washington

Six quarterbacks within the first spherical! And the Cardinals seize the final one. Stunning? Maybe. Kyler Murray goes to be onerous to take away contractually, however the Cardinals are constructing for the long run and provides themselves an choice to buttress the room and create a Jordan Love-type state of affairs for the longer term if Murray doesn’t work out. Permitting Penix to study beneath Cardinals OC Drew Petzing will assist Penix spherical out his recreation and probably be the longer term distributor of many Marvin Harrison Jr. touchdowns.

That is hardly the primary mock draft the place Mitchell has been projected to the Chiefs. (In reality, with this mock, he turns into the participant most-frequently projected to Kansas Metropolis this offseason). However in nearly all instances, he has been chosen at 32. In our consensus draft prospect rankings, he’s the fifth-ranked wideout at twenty seventh — so it’s not clear he’ll make it to the top of the primary spherical.

So if the Chiefs have him with a first-round grade, it is a possible solution to get him — proper the place he’s more likely to go. Why? As a result of one other staff might be calling Kansas Metropolis to ask for it. For a GM, that’s all the time higher than looking for a commerce companion for one thing in your staff’s want checklist.

The Cardinals have two first-round picks — and if Penix has fallen this far, he’ll very probably make it to the top of the spherical. (In Orr’s mock, the Denver Broncos take quarterback Bo Nix So Arizona nonetheless will get their quarterback (with a fifth-year possibility accessible) and picks up one other decide. They could even be prepared to surrender a little bit of draft worth in a commerce. If the Chiefs give their fourth-round (decide 131st general) to swap 32 and 27, the Jimmy Johnson draft chart provides Kansas Metropolis the equal of a late fourth-rounder — however by my John Dixon AV-based chart, the Chiefs lose the equal of a range within the early sixth to maneuver up for Mitchell.

This all relies upon, in fact, on whether or not the Texas huge receiver continues to be accessible — and Kansas Metropolis needs him badly sufficient to make a transfer for him. The best way Orr’s first spherical performs out, the Chiefs can be much less more likely to be buying and selling up for an offensive deal with (seven of them are passed by the twenty seventh decide) until they’ve their sights set on Duke’s Graham Barton, who’s the one one of many top-tier tackles left.