Kansas City Chiefs were interested in trading for Mitchell Trubisky, per rumors
By Matt Conner
MMQB’s Emily Kaplan says the Kansas City Chiefs were reportedly interested in moving up for Mitchell Trubisky in the 2017 NFL Draft.
The one thing we know by now is that the Kansas City Chiefs were ready to trade up in the 2017 NFL Draft to get their man. After the team traded up with the Buffalo Bills to take Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the draft room celebrated as if they had landed the guy who had been in their crosshairs all along. But a report from Monday Morning Quarterback’s Emily Kaplan references “league sources” who had the Chiefs interested in also trading up for the first signal caller taken in the draft: North Carolina’s Mitchell Trubisky.
From a story posted Tuesday by Kaplan who was inside the draft process with the Chicago Bears, the team who traded up to land Trubisky at No. 2 overall, she writes:
"“League sources say the Browns and Chiefs also coveted Trubisky and could have been a threat to up to No. 2.”"
Was Mitchell Trubisky really first overall on the Chiefs draft board? Were they interested in two quarterbacks, willing to move up for either one? Is this a silly rumor being circulated to make the Bears look a bit less ridiculous in the price they paid to move up?
If you follow the emotions and quotes coming out of Arrowhead Stadium about Patrick Mahomes, it’s a bit odd to think they also felt the same way about Trubisky, but maybe this draft had more starting potential than most people realized. Maybe the Chiefs liked two guys and were willing to take whichever one fell closest to them in trade scenarios. Remember the Chiefs were also reportedly trying to trade up to No. 5 overall with the Tennessee Titans to land a quarterback.
It would be interesting to see the final draft board and how the Chiefs rated each of the quarterbacks available, especially because the team evaluated them each so closely in the process leading up to the draft. For now, all we have is speculation around Trubisky and adulation around the man they actually landed.