Viral Clip of Patrick Mahomes Doubters Played As He Becomes The Corner Stone.
After selecting him with the 10th pick of the 2017 Draft, former Chiefs General Manager John Dorsey had no doubts that Patrick Mahomes would go on to do great things in Kansas City.
Over the weekend Mahomes, now considered the No 1 quarterback in the NFL, claimed his third Super Bowl ring with the Chiefs after inspiring their dramatic overtime win against the San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas.
That victory also saw him become the first quarterback since Tom Brady in 2005 to lead his team to back-to-back championships, meaning he now has a seat at the table in the all-time-greats conversation.
Nevertheless, not everyone was as convinced as Dorsey that Kansas City had made the right choice in drafting Mahomes seven years ago.
Incredible footage has resurfaced on social media of a host of NFL analysts – including Shannon Sharpe, Stephen A. Smith and Cris Carter – questioning the Chiefs’ decision to select him as their first-round pick back in 2017.
In a viral clip, their damning assessments of the Mahomes draft pick are played alongside snippets from Dorsey’s press conference at the time, in which he predicted their new signing would go on to prove his doubters wrong.
Sharpe, working for FOX Sports’ Undisputed back in 2017, said about the Chiefs’ decision: ‘Patrick Mahomes, I don’t like it. I do not like this pick.’
Smith also claimed Mahomes was not a more worthy draft pick than Deshaun Watson, who is yet to win a Super Bowl after stints with the Houston Texans and the Cleveland Browns.
‘Just like I said to you [Mitchell] Trubisky doesn’t have the resume that tells me that he’s better than Deshaun Watson,’ the ESPN First Take regular said. ‘I dare sure ain’t gonna say that Patrick Mahomes does.
Dorsey, meanwhile, was fully convinced that Kansas City’s new quarterback would justify their faith.
‘This is a really good football player,’ the now-Detroit Lions executive insisted. ‘And I think these types of guys don’t come around that often.
‘I can see this guy developing into a really-good football player.’
Former Eagles wide receiver Carter was another skeptical analyst at the time, telling Sharpe on Undisputed: ‘If [Mahomes] is that good, you went over Deshaun Watson, you traded up, but you’ve still got to wait on the cookies – because the cookies ain’t ready yet.