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2021 NFL Draft: KC Chiefs have six picks after Orlando Brown trade

By Matt Conner

BALTIMORE, MD - OCTOBER 24: Orlando Brown #78 of the Baltimore Ravens looks on during a NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills on October 24, 2004 at M & T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
BALTIMORE, MD - OCTOBER 24: Orlando Brown #78 of the Baltimore Ravens looks on during a NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills on October 24, 2004 at M & T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) /
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The K.C. Chiefs have already made their biggest draft investment one week before the actual 2021 NFL Draft takes place with the announced trade that sent the team’s first round pick and other draft assets to the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for Pro Bowl tackle Orlando Brown and a couple other picks. Specifically, the Chiefs will have six total selections available to them when the first-year player draft begins next Thursday.

On Friday, the Chiefs sent the No. 31 overall pick to Baltimore along with their third and fourth round selections in 2021 to the Ravens, who now have a bounty of picks with which to bolster their team. The Chiefs also sent a fifth round choice in 2022 in exchange for Brown and the Ravens’ second round pick in ’21 to go with a future sixth rounder in ’22.

The deal means that the Chiefs have six official picks with only two in the draft’s top 100 slots. Here’s an official rundown of the picks that Veach will have available to him:

  • Second round – No. 58 overall
  • Second round – No. 63
  • Fourth round – No. 145
  • Fifth round – No. 176
  • Fifth round – No. 182
  • Sixth round – No. 208

The Chiefs still have a fourth round pick available to them due to gaining compensatory picks from last year’s free agency losses of Kendall Fuller to the Washington Football Team and Emmanuel Ogbah to the Miami Dolphins (which explains the second fifth round pick as well).

The KC Chiefs now have six official picks remaining in the 2021 NFL Draft.

With the addition of Brown, the Chiefs lose a chance to select in the draft’s first round, but they gain a still young player who is only 24 years old yet already made two Pro Bowls with the Ravens as both a right and left tackle. Last year, Brown moved to the left side in the wake of Ronnie Stanley’s injury and demanded that he continue to play that side, which was not possible in Baltimore given Stanley’s All-Pro status and contract nearing $100 million overall.

The NFL Draft begins on Thursday, April 29.

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