Originally posted by Sickaa:
Originally posted by Dr_Bill_Walsh:
Originally posted by nomejodaspaco:
Mahomes.
could've had that in 2017....but Lynch just had to draft his college classmate Solomon Thomas
Wasn't it lynch who wanted him but Shanny wasn't interested in him?
Lynch really wanted Solly based on them attending a class at Stanford together (and prob his family heartstring off-field story)....Kyle IIRC let him do that (they were both rookies at their job...it was their first draft ever a firstime GM and HC) in exchange for that one RB (Joe Thomas?) that Kyle really wanted...or maybe so long as Lynch also traded up to grab Reuben Foster in the first.
TLDR; they whiffed on all three *and* missed out on trading down from pick #3 to acquire as much picks as possible since they were in re-build mode (while still having a chance at Mahomes.in like the 9th-13th pick range)
hindsight of course, and who knows if they properly develop Mahomes, but that was a big fail looking back now
[ Edited by Dr_Bill_Walsh on Jan 30, 2022 at 9:40 PM ]