Chiefs drafted Tyreek Hill with pick #165 in a 2016 draft that had 253 selections and Chiefs had pick 178 (DJ White, CB, Georgia Tech) and pick 203 (Dadi Nicolas, DE, Virginia Tech)
Tyreek Hill was fortunate to be drafted to the Chiefs, but this idea that Chiefs did some benevolent thing to give him a chance when no other team would is nonsense. Chiefs drafted him with pick #165 when they had pick #178.
The Chiefs war room OBVIOUSLY somewhat figured that he was on other teams draft boards and not worth the risk to wait around.
He scored 67 TDs in six regular seasons as a Chief and 35 of those were 30 yards or longer. plays. And he had 6 postseason TDs for Chiefs.
https://www.pro-football-reference.c...00/touchdowns/
The only games he missed were 4 games when Jalen Ramsey made that dirty play and caused that collarbone dislocation in 2019. and he was a healthy inactive in last game of 2020 season against Chargers when Chiefs had #1 seed already clinched.
https://www.pro-football-reference.c...lTy00/gamelog/