Kansas City Chiefs general manager Brett Veach is among the most aggressive in the NFL, which is easy to do when Patrick Mahomes is established as your franchise quarterback.
What might not be so easy to pull off is adding an elite weapon to a receiving corps that led the league in dropped passes in 2023, if the Chiefs are looking to prop their Super Bowl window around Mahomes even wider in 2024, ahead of this year’s NFL Draft.
NFL Media’s Ali Bhanpuri, Gennaro Filice, and Tom Blair, put together a list of “win-win” trades for each team involved in the deal, and, their proposed Kansas City Chiefs-Chicago Bears swap might be the best of the bunch.
Thanks to Kansas City picking last in the first round, after winning a second straight Super Bowl, and the Bears potentially preferring to add a second-round pick and future draft capital rather than stay at No. 9 overall when the best prospects available might play positions where Chicago doesn’t necessarily have a pressing need, these two might be perfect trade partners.
Kansas City Chiefs-Chicago Bears Perfect NFL Draft Trade
As a result of the Bears-Chiefs swap, Chicago gets future picks and the Chiefs bolster what is already one of the most explosive offenses in the sport built around the greatest quarterback of his generation — and maybe of all-time.
CHIEFS RECEIVE:
- 2024 first-round pick (No. 9 overall) | 1,350 points
BEARS RECEIVE:
- 2024 first-round pick (No. 32 overall) | 590 points
- 2024 second-round pick (No. 64) | 270 points
- 2024 fourth-round pick (No. 131) | 41 points
- 2025 first-round pick | 740 points (valued at the 24th pick in the round)
The Chiefs would clearly be trading a lot to move up 22 spots, in all likelihood to select Brock Bowers or Rome Odunze.
While Kansas City has a glaring need at cornerback, this is a team that won last season by getting key contributions from its young defenders, and of course, Patrick Mahomes’ heroics. The reality is that the Chiefs will go as far as Mahomes can take them, for as long as he’s behind center.
Through that lens, continuing to surround Mahomes with elite playmakers should be the only priority for the Chiefs as they chase a third consecutive Super Bowl.
Why Chicago Bears Would Make this Trade
Even though the temptation to surround Caleb Williams with Odunze or Bowers, or to take the best edge rusher on the board would be tempting, the Bears still need to accumulate resources.
Chicago doesn’t have a second-round pick, in this year’s draft, and the possibility to have two first-round selections for two consecutive years would be too tempting for GM Ryan Poles to turn down.
Based on where these two teams are in their building process, there’s a lot to like about the deal for both the Chiefs and the Bears.
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