If Chiefs make first-round trade, they’ll consult this NFL Draft Value Chart

Pete Grathoff
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Thirty-two NFL teams means there are 32 different draft profiles on the prospects who will be chosen at the 2023 NFL Draft in Kansas City.

While the teams may not agree on which players are best (remember the Bears traded up to draft Mitch Trubisky instead of Patrick Mahomes), they do consult one chart before making a deal.

It’s called the Rich Hill model and each draft pick is assigned a point total. The first overall pick is worth 1,000 points. Picks in the final half of the seventh round are worth a point.

At last year’s NFL Draft, the Chiefs traded three picks to the Patriots and moved up from 29th overall to 21st, and that was used on cornerback Trent McDuffie.

The 21st overall pick is assigned 261 points. The Chiefs sent the 29th (202 points), 94th (41 points) and 121st (23 points) picks, which equaled 266 points, to New England.

Here is a look at the chart from KSHB-TV’s Nick Jacobs, who highlighted the Chiefs’ draft picks this year.

The Chiefs have 10 picks in this year’s draft, and their cumulative point total is 372.

31st pick: 190 points

63rd pick: 82 points

95th pick: 40 points

122nd pick: 23 points

134th pick: 17 points

166th pick: 9 points

178th pick: 6 points

217th pick: 3 points

249th pick: 1 point

250th pick: 1 point

Keep those point totals in mind if the Chiefs should trade up in the first round or down and out of the first round.

Chiefs general manager Brett Veach said last week at a news conference that it wouldn’t be “hard at all” to trade out of the first round.

“I know it was a lot of joking about (Chairman & CEO) Clark (Hunt) saying, ‘You can’t trade a pick’ and listen, maybe there was some truth to it,” Veach said. “But I think that applied more in the offseason or last summer — you know, we’re here now. So I think a trade down is a part of the Draft and it gives people more of a reason to come back on Friday and see us do even more work. I think we’re at the party now, so it’s all up in the air and I think anything’s a possibility.”