One more game to go …
• With the Patrick Mahomes hype set to shift into overdrive, allow me to kick things off with a story on how deep the Chiefs’ work on him ahead of the 2017 draft went. It was, in fact, right after the 2016 draft—12 months before Kansas City pulled its dramatic move up the board to land the Texas Tech star—that the groundwork was initially laid.
Then-co-director of player personnel Brett Veach was among a group of scouts who were doing early film work that May, and it started with the quarterbacks.