Kansas City Chiefs' DRAFT Secrecy FOOLS Media—How Did Brett Veach Outsmart Everyone?

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Kansas City Chiefs perform a draft magic act, outsmarting the NFL with Brett Veach’s masterful deception and bold strategy. Which moves truly define the Chiefs’ future? Ryan Tracy, Chris, and Matt Derrick unpack Veach’s A+ draft process, including the bait-and-switch tactics that kept rivals guessing. Despite hosting top-30 visits with a flurry of edge rushers, Kansas City stunned observers by selecting players like Mansoor Delane, Peter Woods, and R. Mason Thomas—none of whom attended a top-30 visit and all of whom break Steve Spagnuolo’s typical size mold. The crew debates whether these outlier picks fast-track the Chiefs’ defensive evolution and address persistent third-down woes. Questions loom over the wide receiver room with Rashee Rice and Xavier Worthy, the impact of not drafting a tight end, and the future at right tackle after passing on OL prospects. Will the Chiefs’ new-look defense and retooled offense solidify another Super Bowl run, or pose fresh challenges for Andy Reid’s roster?

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0:00.0	started. It's fun. Here we go. There's only one A in Kansas City's draft. We're going to tell you who it is next.
0:07.0	From the land of the free and the home of the Chiefs, this is the Locked-on Chiefs podcast.
0:13.0	You are Locked-on Chiefs, your daily Kansas City Chiefs podcast. Part of the Locked-on Podcasts
0:20.1	network, your team every day.
0:24.6	Welcome in Chiefs Kingdom. Thanks for joining us again. We're having a good time today.
0:29.1	Hope you are as well. Matt, Derek from Chief Digest.com is visiting us. I'm Ryan Tracy from Rogue
0:34.7	Analytics. Just finished up another draft cycle for us over there.
0:37.9	NFL 33 and RGR football and Chris over at Casey Chief Corner.
0:41.1	We're going to have some fun and take a look at what this team is from a 30,000 foot view.
0:45.8	That's coming up later in the show before that.
0:48.5	I think Casey is now an outlier itself.
0:51.5	We're going to talk about what that means and how it helps them. But we're going to
0:55.2	start right now with there's only one A grade that I'm going to give for this draft. And nobody
1:02.6	grades these kind of things. It's all about the player picks. I want to talk, man, in particular,
1:07.8	about how the chiefs went about this process.
1:13.0	We got a little bit more insight after the fact.
1:16.2	We got a little bit more games being played.
1:19.1	I mean, it was very much the, hey, look at the right hand.
1:21.1	Well, you don't know what the left hand is doing.
1:25.9	And I think Brett Veach gets an A for this draft, maybe an A plus for this draft, for how he went about being the magician
1:28.3	on stage accomplishing all of these things, because I thought it was a master class. How do you feel
1:34.6	about it? Yeah, you know, we've seen how Brett Veach is able to kind of hide what he's doing
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