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Originally Posted by BlackOp
Berry made out like a bandit...he only really played 3 1/2 years and banked $60 million. A safety should never be the 2nd highest payed player on your team.
If he returns in 2016...I seriously doubt it will be for KC.
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Yeah, speaking from a purely objective perspective, it would be tough to say that the Berry pick yielded positive returns for the Chiefs.
That high in the draft and for the kind of money spent during a down period in the Chiefs competitive cycle, it just hasn't been a great return. Now a fairly significant part of that isn't necessarily his fault (out of whack rookie contracts, the knee, the Chiefs being largely terrible....cancer), but fault isn't the issue here.
Sum total, paying $60 million for 3 1/2 seasons of SS play (in 5 years) on a .500 football team is probably not a great allocation of resources. I was so amped about the pick and thought the guy was going to be the lynchpin of a turnaround but I think ultimately the returns on the pick have to be considered pretty unimpressive.