Media Mocks 2025
 

Figured we’d start a thread to share and debate mock drafts we find around the web, even though we all know the mocks we produce ourselves here in the Draft Forum are far superior!

Here’s one that got my attention: https://www.profootballnetwork.com/7...-january-2025/

PFN

1. OT Josh Connerly Jr
2. DT Deone Walker
3. DE JT Tuimoloau
3. TE Alijah Arroyo
5. WR Elijah Badger
7. DT Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins

Started off hot with those 1st 3 picks, but I woulda gone with CB David Igbinosun, CB Cobee Bryant, or TE Oronde Gadsden with our second 3rd in this scenario. Not sure why they have us in the 5th, instead of the 4th, but assuming we should’ve had pick #138 I would’ve taken RB Dylan Sampson! Wow! Noting DE Jordan Burch in the 6th!? His measurables alone seem to elevate him to higher rounds.

Couch’s revised version:

1. OT Josh Connerly Jr
2. DT Deone Walker
3. DE JT Tuimoloau
3. TE Oronde Gadsden
4. RB Dylan Sampson
7. S Shilo Sanders

I’d be really excited about this outcome.

David Igbinosun is going back to Ohio State for his Sr year.

Good luck to him!

JTT in the 3rd?? I figured he would be a late R1 pick

Conorly feels like a coin toss that could go really well but just as easily be a disappointment. I don't like Walker at all if I'm honest, plays too high, doesn't show the strength you'd expect, imo.

I'd love to prioritise speed on the DL, but JTT is a great fit and very good value in the 3rd, I'd be very happy with that, though not sure he lasts that long.

Gadsden, yeah, maybe, not convinced he'll be BPA but fine with it. Think id keep Arroyo there. Sampson would be outstanding.

Overall, would be pretty happy Couch.

Here’s another from Chiefswire that also felt Chiefy…

1. OL Jonah Savaiinaea
2. WR Jayden Higgins
3. TE Gunnar Helm
3. LB Deontae Lawson
5. DL Joshua Farmer
7. EDGE Anto Saka
7. DL Jamaree Caldwell

What do you guys think?

Also, did our 4th get downgraded to a 5th? and do we have two 7th’s now?

A like the way this one starts out and wonder if we’d take one of the top 2 TEs if they fall to #32 or Fannin if he falls to us in RD 2, what do you guys think?

Chiefswire

Round 1, Pick 32: Colston Loveland, TE, Michigan
Round 2, Pick 64: Shemar Turner, DT, Texas A&M
Round 3, Pick No. 66: Ajani Cornelius, OT, Oregon
Round 3, Pick No. 96: Zy Alexander, CB, LSU
Round 7, Pick 255: Collin Oliver, EDGE, Oklahoma State

NFLSE has us taking ersery and trevyon Henderson.

That would be a home run

Feel bad for any te we draft because no matter how good they are they will never be Travis kelce good

This is a great point, we might never be happy with any of the TE’s that follow Kelce…. buuuut I’m pretty sure we woulda said the same about Tony G also.

I'm excited for Wylie honestly. He's got size and decent speed. I think he can be your normal Andy Reid "Good" TE. And with Rashee and Xavier both looking like plus wide outs I don't know that you need to invest heavily in TE pasty Wylie and Gray.

I think this is a draft where you have to draft guys that will have opportunities to play right away. Meaning that while I'd love to grab a mid round TE or DE, I just don't think they are going to see the field like DL, RB, and DBs would.

Now there are always exceptions to the rules, but even if Kelce would retire, which I think he's here for another year, that rookie TE isn't going to get a ton of balls thrown his way. Same situation with DE.

Wylie with Gray and Hendershot, I think we are fine. You're never going to replace Travis. So don't blow a top 70 pick just to make yourself feel better about the situation. If you want a TE, go for a reclamation project and just wait for Atlanta to cut Pitts.

Dude has done nothing. I'm not sure he's worth the 10M 5th year option.

I think Baylor Cupp showed potential as a good depth piece too

ESPN has us taking Kenneth Grant and Trevyon Henderson.

Henderson has to be the most mocked player to us, sure hope it comes true!

Kind of feels like the CEH thing. Except this guy has some actual traits not just on field success.

If we took a guy this early, would it be out of the question to trade Pachecco?

Hunt, Henderson, Perine, Steele

Kelce said at his presser that in three years he sees himself still playing for the chiefs. I don’t see him retiring after this season the way he acted but who knows.

I mean I could see it but kind of why? One year left just let him get healthy and squeeze whats left. I kind of wonder if Steele makes the roster next year. As a FB and an RB he's been really meh.

Steele is a scrub. Hed be the odd man out.

Athlon Sports?

1. OT Conerly Jr
2. TE Fannin Jr
3. CB Amos
3. WR Restrepo

Not bad!

Sport Illustrated

1. DE Mike Green
2. DL Norman-Lott
3. CB Hairston
3. TE Arroyo
4. OT Pierce
5. RB D. Edwards

I'd be ecstatic with Green. Tbh I kinda like borhe drafts, though I don't know much on Norman-Lott

Arroyo with our second third round pick is sweet

The draft scout…

1. DT Harmon
2. RB Sampson
3. S Watts
3. DE J. Stewart

I love Sampson, but not sure about him that high.

Would be exciting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETIoeTS5kvc

I think he’s pretty much got it but I’d have CB Barron and TE Loveland instead of WR Golden and DT Alexander with final potential 1st rounders being:

WR Egbuka
OT Simmons
DT Nolen
OG Jackson
OT Mbow
DT Harmon
OT Membou
DE Pearce
CB Barron
TE Loveland

Thoughts? Additions? Subtractions?

If Simmons is there it’s a no brainer, just have a hard time believing he will be. Now if we sign a fa tackle that’s a different story. I’m going where the big time paid players are and drafting a wr or cb. So I’d say egbuka or Barron.

ClutchPoints - PFN automated draft

1. OT Cameron Williams
2. WR Savion Wiliams
3. RB TreVeyon Henderson
3. TE Elijah Aroyyo

Not the biggest fan of that first pick, the logic is he’ll work on his game for a year and then take Taylor’s spot at RT.

I don't know shit about Williams but pretty solid draft to load up this offense for the next version of this team.

A project tackle over Luther Burden?

https://www.pff.com/news/draft-post-...shemar-stewart

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I’d be a little sad but would understand.

Bleacher Report 3 rd mock. Don’t like taking a 25 year old rookie at 66.

1. Josh Simmons OT OSU
2. Mason Taylor TE LSU
3. Demetrius Knight Jr SC
3. Kitan Crawford S Nevada

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ne-predictions

Clutch Points

1. WR Luther Burden
2. DL Shemar Turner
3. OL Wyatt Milum
4. OT Ajani Cornelius

…No pick at #66?

KC Kingdom

1. OT Aireontae Ersery
2. WR Jayden Higgins
3. DL Jordan Burch
3. LB Jeffery Bassa
4. CB O'Donnell Fortune
7. RB Tahj Brooks

UDFA: WR Traeshon Holdon
UDFA: QB Taylor Elgersma (Canadian)
UDFA: S Hunter Wohler
UDFA: CB Fentrell Cypress

Last Word on Sports

1. OT Conerly Jr
2. DL Alfred Collins
3. OL Wyat Milum
3. TE Terrance Ferguson

For what? A ham sandwich?

I’ll counter with a Turkey Sandwich.

Mock Draft Analyzer: https://public.tableau.com/app/profi...tConsensusMain

This, this is what I want. But add a rb with the second third round pick.

Yahoo Sports Mock with Charles Robinson and Nate Tice.

Predictable pick for us but what I noticed was no Walter Nolen or Luther Burden

https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article...190532143.html

I feel either Nolen or Burden would have a much larger and much more immediate impact on this team than Ersery.

This is an interesting nugget

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...Mw&oe=67DE765C

Daniel Jeremiah’s latest mock.

31. Josh Simmons OT, Ohio State.

https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-mo...l-jeremiah-3-0

And Mel Kiper’s latest

https://archive.ph/30YZo

Nice! I’d take him.

Every mock has Burden and Nolen available to us. New Daniel Jeremiah mock

https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-mo...l-jeremiah-3-0

Interesting to see Luther Burden III was left out of the first round of both Daniel Jeremiah and Mel Kiper Jr.'s mock

I think Burden is definitely in play for us, Moore is our current LT so there’s really not reason to suspect we wouldn’t take a OT in the 2nd - 4th and hope he develops over the next year. A WR would at least see immediate play time, and having another cost controlled weapon at an expensive position plays right into our cap strategy IMO. I’d be happy with a pick in the trenches at either side of the ball, but a weapon would be more exciting for sure.

At this point I don't see how it's not DL or Edge.

Get an impact DL in the first and trade up in the second for Burden?

Shemar Stewart too.

That would be really tough, but if the medicals check out with Simmons, it would probably be foolish to pass on him.

You cannot rule LT out. I championed signing Moore but that doesn't mean I am warm and fuzzy about him as the long-term answer. I don't think his contract speaks to this team being warm and fuzzy all over either. They can't go into this season with Moore and a nothing burger. It's more like a move to get us through until a youngster develops and if Moore turns out to be more than you'd guessed he'd be, then you can move that rookie down the line somewhere, probably to RT.

If we stand pat at 31 and Conerly, Burden, and (name your top defensive guy at this point) are all still there, wouldn't it come down to what they feel left tackle is going to look like in the '26 draft? By all accounts, this is a "meh" draft for left tackles outside the top three or so guys, right? Take the immediate impact/value guy in Burden at 31, perhaps grab a Logan Brown type later in the draft for depth, and reassess next year?

This draft is not very weak at OT. It's actually relatively normal. I think if Simmons hadn't hurt his knee, it'd be very, very normal in that you have two top-15 guys at LT, one at RT, and a couple of other guys that fit somewhere in the 20-25 range. I don't understand the thought that's it's overly weak. It has some nice-looking developmental prospects as well.

Next year's draft is the one that, right now, actually looks weak. You probably have Mauigoa from Miami as a top LT. I don't think teams will see Proctor from Alabama as a LT but maybe if he has a combine like Becton did AND he doesn't give up as much pressure this year. Lomu from Utah probably is in the mix. The new OT for Ohio State, Onianwa, looks legit but has to prove he can go from playing at Rice to playing in the Big 10. Freeling from Georgia is probably a RT that could sneak into Round 1 but he has to have a good year. He'll probably get talked up by the pundits as a LT conversion but I doubt it will have serious legs with the NFL.

That's it. Maaaaaaaaaybe it is a class that matches this one. I don't think it will.

Fair, appreciate the insight. The "meh" comes from a lack of plug-and-play options at the position, but I suppose you could make that argument for all the positions, really.

It's funny to see where guys get ranked as the process narrows down versus where guys had them. Everything will concentrate on the mean, but I think about a guy like McShay. A month ago he had Conerly as his top offensive lineman in this draft and his 13th ranked player overall.

At that time McShay said:
All that has happened since is the Combine where Conerly did nothing to hurt himself. Now he's not in McShay's top 15. I don't subscribe, so I haven't seen where he put him. If The Ringer's Draft Guide is any near representation, he's 37th. Now, I don't see a guy just dropping that opinion and then doing a complete reversal on him later.

So the real question is which player is he and where is he going to go? So many like this this year.

Letting the computer run the entire mock yields some weird results for the Chiefs. I'm sure it does for the other teams too, so it makes it hard to take them too seriously when I'm making the picks for the Chiefs.

Matt Miller ESPN 7 rd Mock:

1. Mykel Williams DE Georgia
2. Charles Grant OT William & Mary
3. Josh Farmer DT FSU
3. Nohl Williams CB Cal
4. Bayshul Tuten RB VT
7. Kitan Crawford S Nevada
7. Daniel Jackson WR Minnesota
7. Nazir Stackhouse DT Georgia

If Nolen's there and we pass on him to take an OT I'd be pretty frustrated.

Nolen doesn't just help the lineup, he helps take pressure of Jones.

Then again, it appears Kiper just doesn't value Nolen as much as I do -- he has him behind Grant. I just think that's a bad evaluation.

Every time I see the chiefs passing on Nolen it irritates me. Hope he goes before us if we aren't going to take him lol.

If Simmons falls to 31, you have to take him (assumng medicals are ok). LT is as responsible for 3/5 as any position. DT is deep and you can take DL w/ 3 of the next 4 picks and still get very good players. RB with 63 or 66 would be the only exception.

If the medicals are fine, he won't fall to 31.

You're either spinning the wheel and taking your chances on a guy with a spotty health record or you're trading up to around 20, IMO.

I don't love either approach.

Simmons isn't exactly 'off' my draft board in the 1st...but he kinda is. I just can't see talking myself into taking him there. I'll either be unwilling to pay to move up or unwilling to spend that kind of pick on a guy who's medicals have scared enough teams for him to slide that far.

I agree, I have no interest in trading up...it seems like every mock has us doing that. The BPA at 31 will be a very good player, whether WR, DL, S, maybe even OT

I think I'd be wanting to trade back if I were Veach. I'd prefer to have two picks in the middle to middle-late second round. It would require more than just the #31 pick, but we could really use both a good DT and a good developmental OT with those picks.

The best mocks are the ones where KC trades up... to take a G!

anyone have ESPN+ and access to Matt Miller’s 7 round mock draft?

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Colston Loveland, TE. Michigan

https://nflmocks.com/chiefs-2025-nfl...1-01jqe0hhfe6n

There is no way he makes it past Denver, if not before.

I'm with you, I just don't know if there are any takers.

Yeah, **** that draft.

Eagles get to sit at 32 and let Nolen fall into their lap.

If Veach took a tackle over Nolen, it’s a clear overreaction to the Super Bowl.

Field Yates Mock

Trade back with the Raiders.

37. Josh Simmons
64. Landon Jackson

https://www.on3.com/pro/news/2025-nf...d-predictions/

This would not be ideal to me

Trash. Both picks.

Hard, hard, hard, hard pass on that abortion of an idea.

I mean, holy shit, what kind of premium would they have to give up for me to trade with an in-division rival like that? It would be a LOT. A LOT a LOT. A stupidly one-sided draft compensation deal. So bad they wouldn't do it for anything but a QB (and Burden is probably not a great fit for them, with Bowers already there).

The players are fine. It's the unnecessary trade back that sucks. Love Simmons (if healthy of course) and Jackson.

But if you're going to take the giant swing with Simmons, there's absolutely no chance you aren't doing it with the 5the year option.

I’ve found the worst one this year. My God I would crash out so hard if we did this

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That's a pretty easy sprint to the podium for Walter Nolen board right there.

Interesting board!

Nolan, Pearce, Green, and Burden all fall to us due to character concerns. Also, I think Ersery could be in the mix there over Williams.