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Originally Posted by jjchieffan
You do realize that the Chiefs didn't "sit at 10", right? They had the 27th pick in the draft and made a huge trade up to get him. It takes a lot of draft capital to move up that far, and someone willing to trade from the top ten to the back of the round. That was likely as high as they could get. Yeah, they were hoping that he would fall to 10. But that was where the draft partner was that was will to trade all the way down to 27.
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I do realize that. But any rational team that knew how good Mahomes was would give up what they had to to get him.
And remember that no other team knew how good he was or it wouldn't have even been a choice. The Browns would have picked him first and would not have traded.