Just be happy Veach convinced Dorsey and Reid to draft Mahomes. Picking QBs is a tough racket.
It worked out in spectacular fashion for your team. I’m willing to bet a number of your fans were freaking out about trading up for Mahomes.
This is true.....I think MOST Chiefs fans thought when they moved up, it was for Watson. The Watson people were pissed off it wasn't him. Half the fan base as a whole still loved Alex Smith and were pissed we traded up for any QB. There were some...maybe 15% of the fan base that really liked Mahomes and were stoked about the pick at the time.
If trading up didn't work for them, and mahomes turned out like mitch, that fan base would be flipping out like crazy.
Mahomes was basically like taking a better version of Jordan Love with a top 10 pick, and trading up to do so by giving up next years 1st and this years 2nd(I believe). No one was talking about Mahomes being a top 10 pick, shit, most had him as a borderline first rounder.
It was a risky, ballsy move, and it worked.
There is always risk involved in the draft.
People seem to forget the year prior that the chiefs tried to trade up to draft paxton lynch, and failed. Boy, what a change that story would have been.
LOL....totally 100% true. KC DID try and move up for Lynch in 2016. Goodell actually saved us (KC) from ourselves....right before that draft, KC was convicted by Judge Goodell of tampering with Jeremy Maclin. KC was fined 250K and stripped of our 3rd and 6th round draft choices in the 2016 Draft.
KC was picking 28th that year. Devner was at 31. Denver, Dallas and KC were trying to move up for Lynch. KC only would have needed to go up 2 spots from 28 to 26, but couldn't out bid Denver. Denver gave up 31 and 94 to move up to 26. KC didn't have a third round choice due to the tampering..that pick would have been pick 91. KC WOULD HAVE been able to win that bidding if they had the third rounder.
Instead, KC ended up trading out of 28, back to 37 and picked Chris Jones....and with another of those picks got Parker Ehigner, G...who started for a bit before injury....he was later traded to the Cowboys for CB Charvarious Ward...who is a starter at CB for us........and then in 2017, still hunting for a QB....KC traded up and got Mahomes.
Amazing how that all worked......one of those butterfly sneezes in china kind of things.