Here’s the first fact about assessing how well an NFL general manager did their job during an NFL Draft: their performance can’t really be evaluated until years have passed, allowing us to see the actual value each draft pick brought to the team.
Here’s the second fact about making those assessments: we don’t care. We make an immediate judgment anyway.
So any evaluation of the job Kansas City Chiefs general manager Brett Veach did during last weekend’s 2022 selection meeting must be taken with a big grain of salt — and the only way to do it is by comparing the perceived value of the players he acquired to where they were taken.