{"id":842717,"date":"2026-03-30T11:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/842717\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:30:37","slug":"three-underrated-prospects-for-chiefs-at-no-29-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/842717\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Underrated Prospects for Chiefs at No. 29 overall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Chiefs general manager Brett Veach is no slouch in this league. As one of the NFL&#8217;s premier general managers, Veach has helped orchestrate the franchise to a dynasty in the 2020s, built contender after contender with unique strategies, and has been a key piece to the Chiefs&#8217; rise as the standard organization in football.<\/p>\n<p>This year, after missing the postseason for the first time in 10 years, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/chiefs\/onsi\/kansas-city-time-is-gift-andy-reid-antsy-to-get-back-to-work\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chiefs<\/a> hold two first-round picks in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/chiefs\/onsi\/kansas-city-3-late-round-offensive-tackles-could-target-in-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL Draft<\/a>, one of which came from Veach&#8217;s trade of All-Pro cornerback Trent McDuffie to the Los Angeles Rams. Kansas City&#8217;s ninth overall selection is a sweet spot for top talent to land, though the No. 29 choice in the first round remains fluid. <\/p>\n<p>Plenty of prospects are in play at that spot, which means there are underrated players to choose from. Let&#8217;s look at three of those players who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/chiefs\/onsi\/kansas-city-linked-multiple-under-the-radar-players-no-9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Veach<\/a> and Kansas City could target at No. 29 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Malachi Lawrence, edge rusher, UCF Knights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs general manager Brett Veach is no slouch in this league. As one of the NFL&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,2438,2437,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-842717","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-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascitychiefs","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116317901625669301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842717","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=842717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}