The following is excerpted from the book: QUARTERBACK: Inside the Most Important Position in the National Football League by John Feinstein Copyright © by John Feinstein Published by Doubleday, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
On the night the Kansas City Chief drafted Patrick Mahomes in April of 2017, Alex Smith knew his days in Kansas City were numbered. "You don't trade up that high [the 10th pick] to take a quarterback with the idea that he's going to sit for two years," he said.