KANSAS CITY, Mo. – For 34 years, the Kansas City Chiefs’ strategy for solving their long-term quarterback situation through the draft was to hope the right guy fell to them in the first round.
Hope, as they say, is no strategy at all, and so the Chiefs failed to draft a quarterback in the opening round since pulling Todd Blackledge out of Penn State in 1983.
That’s why the Chiefs deserve credit for Thursday night’s bold move to jump 17 spots in the first round to grab Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes, whether the trade eventually works out or not.