Chiefs Try To Move To No. 20

Several teams in the top ten are willing to trade down. To date, no offers to trade up have resulted in a deal being consummated. But the team that just spent $41 million in guaranteed money on quarterback Matthew Stafford has turned down a chance to spend another big chunk of cash. According to Adam Teicher of the Kansas City Star, the Lions turned down an opportunity to send their second first-round pick (No. 20 overall) and the first pick in round two (No. 33) to the Chiefs for the third overall pick. The Chiefs made the offer, and it could be proof that the draft trade chart has changed. Under the current trade chart, there’s a sizable gap. The third pick is worth 2,200 points; No. 20 is worth 850 and No. 33 is worth 580. That’s a gap of 770 points, which equates to the midpoint of the No. 22 and No. 23 overall picks in the draft. And the Chiefs were willing to swallow that gap to get out of the three spot. [Editor’s note: We initially misread this one. We wrote that the Lions made the offer to come up. Instead, the Chiefs made the offer to move down. We apologize for the error. Things are moving too damn fast.]