This move will help the Chiefs balance out their battery of picks on Day 3 of the 2025 NFL draft. Before making this deal with the Eagles, Kansas City only had four picks to make on the final day of the Annual Player Selection Meeting, three of which were set to be made in the seventh round.

Just because the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles squared off in Super Bowl 59 at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, it did not mean that they couldn’t agree on a transaction on the first night of the 2025 NFL draft.

The Athletic’s Nate Taylor wrote this in his mock draft: “The Chiefs trade their first-round pick (No. 31), their original third-round pick (No. 95) and their original 2026 fourth-round pick to the Minnesota Vikings for No. 24, a fourth-round pick (No. 139) and a 2026 fourth-round pick.”