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On Tuesday, CBS Sports<\/em> writer Pete Prisco re-graded the 2022 NFL Draft. Back then, he thought the Kansas City Chiefs had made excellent choices in the draft. But now, he thinks they were even better.<\/p>\n Kansas City Chiefs<\/strong> The Skinny:<\/strong> They had 10 picks in this draft and all but one are still with the team heading into 2025, with five definite starters. They had two first-round picks, thanks to the Tyreek Hill trade with Miami, and landed corner Trent McDuffie with one of them and took edge George Karlaftis with the other. McDuffie is a top corner in the league, while Karlaftis is a good edge player. The other starters they got in the draft were safety Bryan Cook (second), linebacker Leo Chenal (third) and running back Isiah Pacheco (seventh). They also got backups in second-round receiver Skyy Moore and corners Joshua Williams (fourth), Jaylen Watson (seventh) and Nazeeh Johnson (seventh). All three corners have started games for the Chiefs and will compete for a job this year. They killed this draft.<\/p>\n How I did: <\/strong>I loved the picks of Karlaftis and McDuffie, but didn\u2019t like the Chenal pick. I was wrong about Chenal. I also liked the Moore and Cook picks, although Moore hasn\u2019t worked out.<\/p>\n New Grade: <\/strong>A+<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I agree with many fans: re-running a draft \u2014 the dreaded \u201cre-draft\u201d \u2014 is pretty stupid.<\/p>\n But there\u2019s nothing wrong with taking another look at a draft after a few years have passed; I often say this is the only way to really evaluate them.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the problem: fans immediately <\/em>want to know how well their favorite team did \u2014 so everybody does draft grades right away.<\/p>\n And Prisco does it, too. But unlike many writers, he isn\u2019t afraid to revisit what he said about each team\u2019s draft. So every spring, he looks at his grades from the NFL Draft from three seasons before. I really respect this approach, and it\u2019s always fascinating to see where he was right and wrong.<\/p>\n In the case of the Chiefs, Prisco was hardly alone in 2022. Many other pundits thought Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 general manager Brett Veach had done a terrific job \u2014 and if you asked them today, they\u2019d probably agree that Veach\u2019s choices panned out even better than they expected.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve encountered more than a few people who are lukewarm about Veach. Sometimes I think they\u2019ve never gotten over the Breeland Speaks pick in 2018 \u2014 and yes… that one didn\u2019t turn out well.<\/p>\n I make no claim that Veach is perfect. But anyone who goes into a third season with nine of 10 drafted players on his roster must<\/em> be doing something right. Most GMs would be lucky to have nine of 10 on the team just a year later.<\/p>\n So maybe \u2014 just maybe \u2014 it\u2019s time to let the Speaks pick go.<\/p>\n By the way… can you name the player the Chiefs took in 2022 who is no longer on the team?<\/p>\n It\u2019s Kentucky tackle Darian Kinnard, a fourth-round pick inactive for all but three games of his rookie season (getting on the field in just one game) before spending 2023 on the Kansas City practice squad. The following February, the Philadelphia Eagles signed him to a reserve\/future deal. He made their roster, appearing in two 2024 games.<\/p>\n So while Kinnard hasn\u2019t yet made much of an impact, he\u2019s now just the second player who has won a Super Bowl ring in three consecutive seasons. The first was linebacker Ken Norton Jr., who won Super Bowls with the Cowboys in 1992 and 1993 before winning another with the San Francisco 49ers in 1994. Unlike Kinnard, Norton was a starter in all three seasons. But like Kinnard, Norton\u2019s new team beat his old one in the following year\u2019s postseason \u2014 in his case, for the NFC Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The CBS Sports columnist now gives Kansas City an A+ for 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":63233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
\n2022 Grade:<\/strong> A<\/p>\n
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