Chiefs draft rumors: Trading up for Tyreek Hill replacement very much in play

For their shot at Jameson Williams, the Kansas City Chiefs will need to step up to the bar and package picks No. 29 and No. 30 together to be in position to land Tyreek Hill’s replacement at wide receiver.

Though the Kansas City Chiefs could still draft a wide receiver in the latter part of round one, they could also package No. 29 and No. 30 to move up and draft Jameson Williams to replace Tyreek Hill.

In Albert Breer’s MMQB column ahead of the 2022 NFL Draft, he writes that if the Chiefs were to replace Hill in the draft then “Jameson Williams would be the obvious guy who’d even have a chance to be a one-for-one exchange in that regard.” While he wonders if the Chiefs will swing for the fences like this, Kansas City once moved up the draft board to take one Patrick Mahomes.

So what makes Williams the guy the Chiefs need to target if they want to trade up on Thursday?

Kansas City draft rumors: Is Jameson Williams the guy worth moving up for?

No matter how it shakes out for Williams in the draft and professionally afterward, he has the chance to be the poster child for all that is awesome about the college transfer portal. Williams could have stayed at Ohio State and played third wheel to Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson, but by transferring to Alabama, he assured himself of the life-changing money as a first-round lock.

Even if he tore his ACL during the College Football Playoff for the Crimson Tide, Williams put enough on tape to ensure any team who takes him will be getting an absolute stud. However, it will take more than the No. 29 pick from the Miami Dolphins by way of the San Francisco 49ers and the No. 30 pick for the Chiefs to be in position to draft a wide receiver of Williams’ elite caliber.

The Chiefs will probably need to get into the late teens, potentially into the top half of the first round to be in position to land Williams. While the pressure will be sky high on him to perform in his first year with Kansas City, he could be the 2022 version of what Ja’Marr Chase was for the 2021 Cincinnati Bengals. Keep in mind Chase did not play a snap of football in the 2020 season.

So if the Chiefs want to trade up to replace Hill with Williams, they better pony up big time.