The most expected move in Kansas City sports this year also could be the biggest, a cataclysmic franchise shift with the Chiefs ending 40 years of dependence on someone else’s backup in long overdue favor of their own wildly talented, freakishly armed and curly haired new star.
You guys, it’s happening. It’s really happening.
On Tuesday night, the Chiefs traded veteran quarterback Alex Smith.
The Chiefs will receive a third-round pick and Kendall Fuller, one of the NFL’s best slot corners, plus clear nearly $16 million in cap space, so the implications stretch from immediately improving the roster with flexibility to do more plus the unleashing of the franchise’s most anticipated player since, um, jeez .