Chiefs draft rumors: Quarterback expected in first two rounds for Kansas City

According to Matt Miller from Bleacher Report, the Kansas City Chiefs are expected to add a quarterback in the first two rounds.

Matt Miller says he has a source. Somewhere within the Kansas City Chiefs’ front office or scouting department is a person who told the Bleacher Report writer that the team was going to focus on quarterback in the first two rounds. Whether to believe that someone would leak that information or not is entirely up to you as a reader, but Miller has two separate sources saying two different positions for the Chiefs early in the draft.

In his latest column featuring draft buzz and his most updated big board before the 2017 NFL Draft, Miller writes:

"QB or bust? Not quite, but a source with the Chiefs scouting department does expect they’ll add a passer in the first two rounds. I’ve also been told by another source that inside linebacker is high on the team’s wish list."

The Chiefs have certainly done the requisite homework to do just that, having brought in every top rated quarterback in the class for a personal visit. The Chiefs are hamstrung, however, with a low pick in the first round, which means that any real top option, such as Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes or Mitchell Trubisky, will require the team to use some of their 10 picks to move up in the draft.

Will the Chiefs grab a perceived second-tier target? Will they move up? Is all of this a smokescreen to keep a team from moving up in front of them to take a position they really want? Perhaps the Chiefs are setting a scene so that the cornerback needy Packers don’t move in front of them to grab Kevin King? It’s an idea.

It’s hard to believe someone in K.C. is leaking real information, but if Miller has a good working friendship with someone then maybe there’s fire behind that smoke. But even if not, these are all scenarios that make sense on paper, even without a source informing Miller one way or another.