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Originally Posted by tredadda
That’s exactly it. There were a lot of people who thought he was going to be good in the NFL and was a steal for KC. Clearly a lot of people were fooled and his skill set is just not translating to the NFL.
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I still think NFL Draft Twitter is a MASSIVE echo chamber.
Anytime you see someone jump a couple rounds among the 'consensus' when no actual football has been played, I think you can presume that it's just a lot of people repeating someone else's work.
Now as for why the Chiefs missed it - I still point to the fact that they traded down as evidence that they were never as high on him as they portrayed. This isn't a team that's going to trade back if they see someone they truly like.
It's a Speaks situation. They badly wanted a WR in the 2nd round, thought they had some wiggle, made just a very small trade down and suddenly 3 more popped off the board. They just tried to game the board and it didn't work out for them.
So they took the best WR left on their board (which should've been Doubs, really - I'd have taken Austin III if I were hell bent on WR at that spot) and proceeded to rationalize it publicly.
I don't think for a minute the Chiefs were as elated with that pick as the fanbois were. And I don't think the fanbois were independent in their analysis of him either. I think they got caught up in a wave of momentum that never truly made sense and was little more than a bunch of guys copying someone else's (bad) homework.