Anonymous GM DEMANDS Throw "Positional Value" OUT—NFL World REACTS! Should the Chiefs Listen?

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Kansas City Chiefs face a pivotal NFL Draft as debate rages over positional value and long-term roster strategy. Could ignoring traditional draft norms set the stage for a Super Bowl run, or is it a costly gamble? With defensive ends projected to command astronomical salaries, Chris Clark and Ryan Tracy break down the urgency for the Chiefs to secure elite talent on rookie deals—especially at edge rusher and wide receiver. The conversation spotlights prospects like Arvell Reese, Jeremiah Love, and Jordan Tyson, questioning if the Chiefs should target premium positions or simply the best players available. Is drafting a tight end like Kenyan Sadiq in the top 15 worth the investment, given current contract structures? Dive into the Chiefs’ calculus for maintaining cap flexibility, how rising player salaries shift draft priorities, and why this year’s class could shape Kansas City’s championship window.

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0:00.0	With the NFL draft, a week away, there's a lot of talk going on.
0:03.6	From the land of the free and the home of the Chiefs, this is the Locked-on Chiefs podcast.
0:09.7	You are Locked-on Chiefs, your daily Kansas City Chiefs podcast, part of the Locked-on
0:15.7	podcast network, your team every day.
0:20.8	And welcome back. We are going to be talking a little bit about what is
0:24.7	being talked about in the media right now one of our guys is out there peter shrigger he's been
0:30.7	on our show we have talked to him about the chiefs and what is going on and one of the comments that
0:35.8	he had coming from a gm is that positional value needs to be
0:41.0	thrown out the window in this draft.
0:44.4	To me, that's crazy talk when you're talking about first round picks, which is exactly
0:49.9	what they were discussing with that comment.
0:52.6	And I just cannot see it for the chiefs anyway.
0:57.6	Do other teams do it? Yeah, I think so because it sure seems like Dallas wants to trade up and
1:02.5	it doesn't seem like they want to go positional value. It sounds like they kind of want to go
1:05.9	maybe Caleb Downs, which would not include positional value.
1:12.9	To me, it's crazy.
1:17.3	Like, you look at the contracts, and I said this on the Daily Show yesterday,
1:23.6	or on Thursday's Daily Show, you look at the contracts for what a defensive end is going to cost in four years when you resign them.
1:26.7	Guarantee you, you're going to have
1:28.4	defensive ends of making probably $55 million a year plus, and maybe even $60 million a year by then.
1:35.1	Yeah, which means unless George Perlopis is now a 15 sack per year guy from here on out,
1:40.3	he's not signing again. He will not be here. So you have to have two low cost edges in order to
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