On Thursday, I looked at how the Patriots retooled their roster by using the 2015 Draft class. Yesterday, I showed that the Saints had a remarkable 2017 offseason, finding 7 starters in just one year.

If we do the same sort of analysis for the Chiefs, however, the results aren’t very interesting. There’s no one year that stands out for Kansas City; as you might suspect, the Chiefs have added a bunch of talent over the last three years, and were pretty good before then, too. Take a look at how much AV Kansas City added in each year to its 2018 roster, both via the draft (in black) and overall (in red):

What’s more interesting is how the Chiefs have built their roster, as opposed to when. Kansas City has just three homegrown first round picks that were starters this year: QB Patrick Mahomes, LT Eric Fisher, and edge rusher Dee Ford. Kansas City lost its 2018 first round pick in the trade up for Mahomes, traded down in the first round in 2016 (and landed star DT Chris Jones), while 2015 first round CB Marcus Peters) and 2012 first round DT Dontari Poe are no longer on the roster. So the last 7 years of first round picks have yielded just three players. In addition, Eric Berry (1st round, 2010) is still in Kansas City, but he played in just two games this season.

On the other hand, Kansas City’s offense is boosted by three high picks from other teams: two offensive linemen from the Browns (Cameron Erving and Mitchell Schwartz) and ex-Bills and Rams WR Sammy Watkins. The defense also added Reggie Ragland, the 41st overall pick by the Bills in 2016. And when it comes to second round picks, the only notable players are Jones and G Mitch Morse.

Meanwhile, the Chiefs have a ton of starters that came from outside of the first two rounds, whether homegrown or otherwise: Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelce, Andrew Wylie, Allen Bailey, Anthony Hitchens, Justin Houston, Steven Nelson, Derrick Nnadi, Chris Conley, and Kendall Fuller all started at least 10 games, and Eric Murray (a 2016 4th round pick) started 9 games.

In the backfield, the now-departed Kareem Hunt was a third round pick, while Spencer Ware, Damien Williams, and Anthony Sherman were all low cost additions found outside of the draft.

The graph below shows the amount of AV on the 2018 Chiefs that came from each round, with the black column showing players drafted by the Chiefs and the red column showing all other players.  ^[1]For both graphs, Hunt’s 11 points of AV have been removed.

Only 5 players on the Chiefs had at least 4 points of AV and were drafted in the first two rounds by Kansas City (Fisher, Mahomes, Ford, Jones, and Morse). Meanwhile, 18 players had at least 4 points of AV and were drafted by other teams, were undrafted, or were drafted by Kansas City outside of the top two rounds (with Kelce and Hill being the prime examples).

So when the game unfolds tomorrow, one man who should smile is Browns GM John Dorsey, who was the Chiefs GM from 2013 to 2016.