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Originally Posted by Megatron96
This might be the wildest trajectory I can remember for a 1st/2nd rd Chiefs draft pick. right after the SB, Rice was being hailed as the future of the Chiefs offense, the guy that was going to carry the team forward for the next ten years while amassing a HOF career. A few months later, he probably won't get extended.
just crazy.
Just out of curiosity, did we have any idea that Rice was this much of a problem child before drafting him? Were there actual signs while he was in college that he had these . . . tendencies? Or was this all just completely out of left field?
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I don't think fans got much wind of it, but a few different beat writers have said things like this, which implies that the concerns were definitely there if not particularly loud.
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I asked three NFL evaluators about Rice immediately after the '23 draft; all three mentioned concerns that traditionally have fallen under the 'character' umbrella. I didn't publish those comments because it gets complicated throwing out stuff like that in passing while analyzing a team's draft in a few paragraphs. But it's also true that teams aren't surprised by what is unfolding with Rice right now.
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