{"id":837865,"date":"2026-03-27T22:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/837865\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:59:23","slug":"in-this-weeks-reacts-poll-chiefs-fans-want-defensive-line-at-pick-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/837865\/","title":{"rendered":"In this week\u2019s \u2018Reacts\u2019 poll, Chiefs fans want defensive line at pick 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/EFIUQ7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SB Nation Reacts<\/a>, a survey of fans across the NFL. Each week, we send out questions to the most plugged-in <a href=\"\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> fans. You can see all of the recent survey results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/kansas-city-chiefs-fan-surveys\/archives\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And be sure to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/nfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">FanDuel Sportsbook<\/a>, the official sportsbook partner of SB Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Looking early in the defensive trenches<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nearly two-thirds of polled fans in Chiefs Kingdom are eyeing a defensive lineman \u2014 whether an edge rusher or an interior player \u2014 to be selected with the ninth-overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Should Brett Veach trade up?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After some discussion this week among the Arrowhead Pride users about a trade-up scenario from pick No. 9 to pick No. 6, only 18% of Chiefs fans who voted want general manager Brett Veach to be aggressive about trading up from the top pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Considering that Bain and Bailey are the prize defensive linemen of this class, some fans may need to understand that trading up could be the only way to draft one of the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Each week, we send out questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,13607,922,2438,2437,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-837865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-fan-surveys","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascitychiefs","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116303624000163593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}