BALTIMORE — Toward the end of the 2018 season -- when Patrick Mahomes was launching bomb after bomb and Lamar Jackson was just starting to make his meme-making runs -- a high-ranking Baltimore Ravens official stood on the practice field and made this keen observation.
The Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs landed the NFL’s most feared players because they showed no fear in drafting them.
Baltimore and Kansas City had the opportunity to play it safe a few years ago by sticking with winning, albeit not scintillating, quarterbacks.