There’s no other way to say it: Demarcus Robinson came out of nowhere on Sunday.
When I type the word “nowhere,” I mean it in the most literal sense. There was no reason why anyone—from Andy Reid to Jon Gruden to John Dorsey, the man who drafted him—would have expected the sort of dominant performance put up by the Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver. On Sunday afternoon against the Oakland Raiders, Robinson not only fulfilled the cliche’d “next man up” motto, but he put on a clinic that made at least some of us stand and applaud.
Two things need to be made clear (before we dive into both):
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