For all the boxes ticked, the Chiefs skipped the loudest one: wide receiver is exactly as bare as it was.

The Howell pick is the one the value grade keeps tripping over. They left with edge rusher solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.

Building through the lines is a philosophy, and they stuck to it.

If Cashius Howell and a couple of the gambles land, hindsight will be kinder than this grade.