Loser: Chiefs gave up the farm for project QB, Patrick Mahomes
Let’s get this out of the way first: Patrick Mahomes has elite athletic traits. He can throw the ball over the top of them mountains and can run like the wind. He’s essentially Colin Kaepernick, version 1.2.
But he isn’t ready to start. He’s got a lot of learning to do before he’s going to be able to step into a pro system and make pro reads.
We predicted he’d be the second quarterback picked in this draft. But when we did it we were predicting a nightmare scenario in which teams panicked and reached for quarterbacks. And make no mistake about it, the Chiefs not only reached for Mahomes here but also gave up way too much to do it (details here).
Now, you have to feel for Alex Smith a bit, too. As we mentioned before, Mahomes has Kaepernick-type qualities, and Smith has seen this movie before. The Chiefs, at some point in the (hopefully) near future are going to ditch Smith for Mahomes, because that’s what you have to do when you give up so much for a quarterback.