As tough as it was to part with the NFL’s reigning sack champion, Kansas City isn’t doing too badly after trading DE Jared Allen to the Vikings.  The Chiefs now own 6 of the top 82 picks in the draft, which is perfect for a bottom-tier team going through a youth movement.

At #5 overall, the Chiefs will have a lot of options.  Matt Ryan, Darren McFadden, Branden Albert, Ryan Clady and Sedrick Ellis are all possibilities.  It’s also likely that the Chiefs will attempt to trade down from #5, as there are plenty of suitors near pick #10 that fancy some of those names, and might be willing to trade up.

With Minnesota’s #17 pick, the Chiefs will also have the luxury of taking the best player available.  The biggest positive about having so many picks in the first three rounds is that is allows a team to not feel as tied down to making a need pick as they might be otherwise, allowing them to simply take what comes to them and eventually still fill all their positions of need.

Though a team never likes to part with a player like Allen, the Chiefs can’t feel bad about the position they’re in going into Saturday.