What's wrong with Mecole Hardman - Part 2

[FloridaMan88]

The Chiefs were trying too hard to draft a Tyreek Hill-type player with Hardman when they thought at the time Tyreek's NFL future was in doubt.

Thank God the Chiefs never had to ultimately deal with the scenario of having to replace Tyreek with Hardman.

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

Thank God the Chiefs never had to ultimately deal with the scenario of having to replace Tyreek with Hardman.

That would have been a major disaster...that's why you don't draft like that. Veach blew that pick because he was doing it out of desperation.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

That would have been a major disaster...that's why you don't draft like that. Veach blew that pick because he was doing it out of desperation.

The team knew he wasn't going to be charged and they knew that the secretly recorded audio was a big pile of nothing when it came to criminal charges. They suspended Hill due to the video, because it was April and absolutely no harm would come from suspending him for a short period of time in the off-season and they knew the SJW dbags would be up in arms. They had to settle that uproar.

The team knew that Hill was in the clear and would be available for almost every game at the very least. They were also able to save a bunch of money with this happening. Mecole was drafted to keep Mahomes supplied with talent. Hell they had to figure we were losing all of our WRs that that contributed, besides Hill. If all would have went like they thought it would, then

Conley, who started 13 games in 2018 was gone

Demarcus Robinson was a FA after 2019 and was likely gone

Sammy Watkins was going to either be released in 2019 or take a pay cut and play for us 1 more year after that, but he'd be gone after 2020.

So Veach and the boys were looking at the future of our receiving corps and saw Tyreek Hill as the only legitimate WR on the roster after the 2020 season. Veach has made it incredibly clear that he wants Pat to have weapons around him. Veach also knows that money is going to be incredibly tight with a ton of big contracts/extensions coming up within the next 2 years.

That off-season

Frank Clark just signed for $100 mil
Tyreek Hill was gonna get a decent contract extension

The next off-season we were gonna see some huge extensions

Patrick Mahomes
Travis Kelce
Chris Jones

So no damn money to sign any WRs, so how else could we possibly fill those needs with basically no extra cap room? Through the draft. He drafts Hardman as a project that will develop and learn behind Hill, Watkins, and Kelce for a full year or 2 under the right circumstance.

How does this scenario sound less realistic than Veach panicked and picked Hardmans out of fear and convinced himself that he was going to replace 1500 yds 12 tds with a guy that had only been playing WR for 2 years?

Veach is clearly very good at having a plan and sticking to it, but what Veach didn't plan for was COVID taking away Hardman's 2nd off-season of camps. I'd say that 2nd year is when the players learn the most, because I bet the first year is pretty hectic and stressful for a lot of guys, but a lot of guys were screwed out of that. I'd bet that slowed the development of a project guy like Hardman, a guy that was a QB throughout HS, then a FB his freshmen season in college. He was only a WR for 2 years of his life and was then drafted to play against the best players in the world.