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If there are guys that may not have as high of an athletic ceiling as others , but you just know deep down these guys are really good players, we’ll feel good just wanting to make sure we’re surrounding Pat with really good guys that are really good players,” Veach says. “And we want to make sure that at the end of the day, they’re gonna value the game, be great teammates, and these guys aren’t gonna come here and fail. “And look, yes, maybe some guys have a way higher ceiling, but we’re not in that place. We’re gonna get guys in here that want to play, that love the game and that we know are gonna be good players as well. So I think you probably see it almost mirror your free-agent approach and your approach with trading picks with a quarterback on a rookie deal. The benefits of the shift showed up quickly. Through training camp, by the recollection of a couple of Chiefs staffers, the 10 draft picks—of which only one could be considered a risk (fifth-rounder Darian Kinnard was a mild ...

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