Remember projecting Mahomes’ NFL greatness before draft? Us neither. But there was an idea
We remember what we and others said in week before the selection.
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Show Notes
With the NFL Draft on the clock, we turn back the clock to about this time in 2017. The draft approached and the Chiefs held the No. 27 selection. There was some talk of taking a quarterback in the first round for the first time since 1983, but which one. The top rated prospects that year were North Carolina’s Mitchell Trubisky, Clemson’s Deshaun Watson and Texas Tech’s Patrick Mahomes.
Three years later, we know what the scoreboard says. Mahomes has won a regular season MVP and a Super Bowl MVP, leading the Chiefs to the championship in February. Nobody outside the Chiefs facility saw this coming—and show of hands of those inside the facility who envisioned this success so quickly—but there was talk about Mahomes’ potential.
Then-Chiefs beat writer Terez Paylor, now with Yahoo Sports, joined Star columnists Sam Mellinger and Vahe Gregorian and Blair Kerkhoff to talk about what we remembered about the days leading up to the 2017 NFL Draft. What did we get right and wrong about the Mahomes’ speculation?
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