Now that the dust has settled on the 2020 NFL season, and Super Bowl LV has been played, every franchise has figured out their official spot in the 2021 NFL Draft order.
For the Kansas City Chiefs, they were expected to wait a long time until the bottom of each round. Unfortunately, they’re not picking quite as late as anticipated after falling to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in their bid to repeat as Super Bowl champs.
The Chiefs are now slated to pick next-to-last in the bottom of every single round in the 2021 draft, and that includes being No. 31 overall in the first round.
Compensatory picks have not been awarded as of yet by the National Football League, but current projections have the team at extra picks at the ends of Round 4 and 5 for the losses of Kendall Fuller to the Washington Football Team and Emmanuel Ogbah to the Miami Dolphins. That would give the Chiefs eight overall picks, but seeing as those are unofficial projections, the Chiefs only have six picks as of now—the penultimate selection in each round except for Round 6 (thanks to the BoPete Keyes trade).
The Chiefs have the No. 31 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft
Here’s a complete look at the current first round draft order for 2021.
1 Jacksonville Jaguars
2 New York Jets
3 Miami Dolphins (via Houston Texans)
4 Atlanta Falcons
5 Cincinnati Bengals
6 Philadelphia Eagles
7 Detroit Lions
8 Carolina Panthers
9 Denver Broncos
10 Dallas Cowboys
11 New York Giants
12 San Francisco 49ers
13 Los Angeles Chargers
14 Minnesota Vikings
15 New England Patriots
16 Arizona Cardinals
17 Las Vegas Raiders
18 Miami Dolphins
19 Washington Football Team
20 Chicago Bears
21 Indianapolis Colts
22 Tennessee Titans
23 New York Jets (via Seattle Seahawks)
24 Pittsburgh Steelers
25 Jacksonville Jaguars (via Los Angeles Rams)
26 Cleveland Browns
27 Baltimore Ravens
28 New Orleans Saints
29. Green Bay Packers
30. Buffalo Bills
31. Kansas City Chiefs
32. Tampa Bay Buccaneers