Again, disclaimer that Veach could be purposefully obscuring the plan, but he seemed to be pretty candid about both LT being the priority this off season along with DL AND Suamataias potential inside.

Which, yeah, I really don't get it either. At least give him another year of development at OT and see if you can at least salvage him at RT when Taylor leaves. Putting him inside now when there won't be a starting job available for at least a year just doesn't make sense to me.
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No, man. He's a 5th round pick. Anything you get from anyone that low is gravy.
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Veach probably has 20 contingency plans and pivots he's already mapped out with all of the possible moves.

Reading too much into anything this time of year is foolhardy.

But IF they want to do this, they can. And the reality is that anyone other than Smith that's available will be a downgrade .
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Not sure a about that. I think he’s good, but not great. We can find a guard who’s just as serviceable overall.
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Yup and if you get serviceable play out of Kingsley or DJ you're already much better off. Plus you get maybe a healthy Pacheco Back, A top 10-15 WR back, and maybe things click with Wiley. A decent free agent or 2, hit on some draft picks you have a great shot at winning it again. They aren't going to play that bad again everyone needs to relax we ain't far off at all
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Nobody is going to be as good as Smith just on talent. But being able to plug in a marginally worse player still on his rookie contract to spend what may end up being over 20 million elsewhere is preferable to me at least. Doesn't seem like it's the path the Chiefs are going though, so oh well.
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Every single NFL writer with a free agent list disagrees with you, and about half of Chiefsplanet.

Now, maybe they feel they HAVE to move on from him to pay a LT, and if that's how it goes, so be it.

But whoever is at RG is almost certain to be not as good as Smith. Maybe that all works out in the wash, maybe not.

But folks acting like this is absurdly stupid to even discuss paying the man his money are being dumb.
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Maybe that's the plan. We don't know.

All I'm saying is let's not freak out in February.
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Nope. You need to stop underreacting.

We need to freak the fuck out.

You can’t stop us.
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:-)
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I have no idea what he's going to do, and I'm sure he's got a line in the sand with Smith as well as everyone else, but it looks like a fairly crap FA class other than maybe two LT's.

It's a crap draft for LT's.

It's a GREAT draft for DL.

It's a GREAT draft for RB.

So I wouldn't be surprised if Veach says FUCK THIS and just signs Smith AND Jackson and takes his chances in the draft for defense and RB. It's a great draft to do exactly that.

But he never does what I thought he was going to do, so who knows?
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Paying a RG who got dominated in the Super Bowl $20+ million AAV, next to one of the most underachieving RT’s in the league… who is also making $20+ million AAV.

:-)
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Ho-lee sheeetttt. Imagine if this happened. The burst on CP would be absolutely incredible :-)

Chiefs GM Brett Veach believes the team can retain both Trey Smith and Nick Bolton in free agency. How realistic is that? @NFLonCBS pic.twitter.com/BCsfzq2qb6

— Jonathan Jones (@jjones9) February 25, 2025

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he's not going to say he isn't interested in bringing anyone back when he's asked. That wouldn't be a good look and could potentially lower morale.
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You've hated every move the man has made for years.

And yet, we just keep going to Super Bowls and winning our fair share of them.

so face palm away, Florida Man.
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