Patrick Mahomes – Was stunned to lose Tyreek Hill despite knowing a potential trade by Kansas City Chiefs was possible

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs saved Patrick Mahomes within the loop final month as they tried to commerce vast receiver Tyreek Hill, letting their star quarterback know the workforce could quickly be with out one of the prolific vast receivers of his period.

However Mahomes stated he was nonetheless shocked within the moments after Hill was traded to the Miami Dolphins.

“My preliminary response was a bit of little bit of shock,” Mahomes stated Monday because the Chiefs started their offseason program. “Though you knew this was a chance, [losing] a man you had performed with and constructed a friendship with during the last six years, it was positively one thing you did not need him to depart extra for with the ability to hand around in the locker room and try this stuff greater than the precise on-the-field stuff.

“However you are glad for him. Clearly, he received a fantastic contract (four-year, $120 million extension with $72.2 million assured). He is again the place he has a home within the offseason round a whole lot of his household and stuff like that. I want one of the best for him.”

The Chiefs nonetheless have tight finish Travis Kelce, who was second on the workforce final season behind Hill in receptions and yards. In addition they have signed free-agent vast receivers JuJu Smith-Schuster and Marquez Valdes-Scantling.

Kansas Metropolis additionally might add a large receiver or two within the upcoming draft. It has two picks in every of the primary 4 rounds.

“We have simply received to maintain rolling,” Mahomes stated. “That is simply how it’s on this league. It is a enterprise as a lot as it’s about friendships and stuff like that. We all know so as to have success on this league we’ve to maintain evolving and hold getting higher. So I received with these new receivers as rapidly as doable and tried to construct that so we might have success after we get going this yr.”

Nonetheless, the void Hill leaves is important. He caught 343 passes for 4,854 yards and 43 touchdowns in his 4 seasons with Mahomes.

“We’ll have to seek out manufacturing in numerous methods than we did final yr as a result of Tyreek was such an enormous a part of our offense,” Mahomes stated. “I feel you have seen in video games after we have not had Tyreek or we have not had sure individuals different guys have stepped up and made performs occur, and I count on that to occur this yr, as properly.”