{"id":175985,"date":"2024-06-02T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=175985"},"modified":"2024-06-02T16:20:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T20:20:03","slug":"lombardi-chiefs-draft-trade-bills-worthy-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/06\/02\/lombardi-chiefs-draft-trade-bills-worthy-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL Exec: AFC Rival Wanted Prized Chiefs Rookie &#8216;Badly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs have had an <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/04\/29\/mahomes-reaction-kelce-extension-chiefs-reid-worthy\/\" target=\"_self\">interesting offseason<\/a>, flying relatively under the radar, save for a few key instances.<\/p>\n<p>Among them are the loss of star cornerback L\u2019Jarius Sneed, kicker Harrison Butker\u2019s comments during a commencement ceremony and the fallout that followed, and new kickoff rules that could see safety Justin Reid handle duties to fill the need for an additional tackler. Then there is Rashee Rice who, like Butker, hasn\u2019t made headlines for football reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Rice\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/05\/17\/wanya-morris-arrested-chukwuebuka-godrick\/\" target=\"_self\">pending legal matters<\/a> have put an additional emphasis on the Chiefs\u2019 trade with the Buffalo Bills. KC selected Texas wide receiver Xavier Worthy with the No. 28 overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<h2>Chiefs Beat Out Patriots for Xavier Worthy: Lombardi<\/h2>\n<h3>Patriots Wanted Chiefs Xavier Worthy \u2018Badly\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThey [Buffalo] had an opportunity to take a deal from New England,&#8221; former Cleveland Browns general manager Michael Lombardi said on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/lg1gj5zd_us?si=KrVe693qE_hpFQ-z\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pat McAfee Show<\/a>\u201d on May 31. &#8220;New England was in high-speed pursuit of Worthy. They wanted Worthy badly. They were making calls to get that pick. And Buffalo had them on the phone, and so was Kansas City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs sent the Bills the No. 32 pick in the deal that landed Worthy. They also exchanged fourth and seventh-round selections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew England made a substantial offer to them, and they took the Chiefs\u2019 offer. Now, I don\u2019t know if the Chiefs\u2019 offer was substantially more than the Patriots,\u201d Lombardi said. \u201cAt some point, you have to get away from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drafttek.com\/NFL-Trade-Value-Chart-Rich-Hill.asp\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the [trade value] chart<\/a> and just do what\u2019s in the best interest of your team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Patriots wanted worthy, that\u2019s a fact. And they tried to get him.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Speedy speedy speedy \ud83d\udca8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zcMYHeZkEM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/zcMYHeZkEM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chiefs\/status\/1786880037309800470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lombardi pointed out that his former boss \u2013 late Las Vegas Raiders owner Al Davis \u2013 gave two ground rules when doing trades.<\/p>\n<p>The first was not to trade within the division. That would rule out accepting the Patriots\u2019 supposed offer. The second rule was to not do any trades with any team on the upcoming schedule, which would also rule out the Patriots, whom the Bills face twice.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Bills also face the Chiefs in Week 11 this season.<\/p>\n<h3>Bills May Have Let Chiefs Draft \u2018Next Tyreek Hill\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>More importantly, the two teams could meet up in the postseason, which was a significant factor in Lombardi\u2019s reaction to the trade. The deal may have yielded the \u201cnext Tyreek Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you&#8217;re Brandon Beane, you have to sit there and say, &#8216;Yeah, maybe Kansas City offered me a lot more. But why would I give Worthy to them, who&#8217;s a weapon, who could become the next Tyreek Hill for them?\u2019&#8221; Lombardi told McAfee. \u201c\u2018Why am I doing anything to help the Chiefs?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lombardi specifically pointed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/blog\/buffalo-bills\/post\/_\/id\/36910\/bills-watch-victory-slip-away-in-13-seconds-as-chiefs-end-their-postseason-again\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13-second come-from-ahead loss<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Axmxy4fzTGg\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">missed potential game-winning kick<\/a> from this past season. That and the Patriots not being a threat made them a better potential trade partner, saying, \u201cHelping the Chiefs out would be the last thing that I would wanna do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s gonna come back and bite them in the a** if Worthy is as good as we think he could be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Sara Diggins \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former NFL executive revealed one AFC rival&#8217;s efforts to add one of the Kansas City Chiefs&#8217; rookies this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2879,"featured_media":175989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[177,7811,38,9716,32377],"class_list":["post-175985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiefs","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-chiefs-featured","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-rashee-rice","tag-xavier-worthy"],"modified_by":"Josh Buckhalter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}