An AFC general manager was going down a list of NFL teams during a phone call Monday, speculating buyers and sellers at the trade deadline, when the Kansas City Chiefs’ acquisition of New England Patriots edge rusher Josh Uche popped up in his text messages.
“Uche just went,” he said. “To the Chiefs. Wow.”
Uche’s availability was about as close to being broadcast publicly by the Patriots as you could get. And not just his availability, but also a fifth-round draft pick price tag that many suspected had an even lower threshold for compensation. Which it ultimately did, in the form of a sixth-round pick from Kansas City.