KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- This is what quarterback Alex Smith told me in his first public comments after the Kansas City Chiefs drafted his eventual replacement, Patrick Mahomes II, last year:
"I get it, right. If any of us were the [general manager], this in my opinion might be the most important position in all of sports. You'd be crazy not to be stockpiling talent. So I get it, going into Year 13. You understand it."
This is what quarterback Ben Roethlisberger told a Pittsburgh radio station after the Steelers recently drafted his possible replacement, Mason Rudolph.