Chiefs’ brass found perfect shelter spot as tornado sirens sounded during NFL Draft
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- Chiefs general manager Brett Veach left team’s war room after Mansoor Delane’s selection.
- Chiefs senior director of team security Brian Shafar found Veach and told him to return.
- Tornado sirens sounded during the NFL Draft, as noted in the article's headline.
After the Chiefs had traded up Thursday night and selected LSU cornerback Mansoor Delane in the first round of the NFL Draft, general manager Brett Veach left the team’s war room.
During the draft, Veach likes to get away to a quiet place.
But Brian Shafar, the Chiefs’ senior director of team security, soon found Veach and told him he had to get back to the draft room.
Veach certainly would know if the Chiefs were making a trade or a pick, right? Sure, he’s the one who’d be making the deal. But he didn’t know the tornado sirens were wailing.
“I move a lot. I don’t really like staying in the draft room,” Veach told reporters. “I actually like going to my office and letting the picks come off and just kind of think, and then when you go in there, there’s a ton of people. And I just like being by myself, but he had come in and said that there’s a tornado warning, we actually all have to go into the draft room.
“And I said, ‘Look, there ain’t nothing blowing this building down.” I mean, this thing is like complete concrete here.”
But Veach acquiesced and went to the draft room, which is one of the designated spots for people to shelter in place.
There’s never a good time for a tornado threat, but there are certainly worse moments than during the NFL Draft. The Chiefs’ brass — minus Veach — was already in the draft room when the sirens started.
Asked about the tornado warning, Andy Reid quipped to reporters: “Well, we were hoping you guys wouldn’t show up.”
Reid then acknowledged he and others were already where they needed to be.
“Well, the draft room is right in the middle of the building,” Reid said. “It’s actually one of the tornado spots, shelter spots. So it worked out well, we all just went in there and did our thing.”
This story was originally published April 24, 2026 at 10:49 AM.
