Smith went 19-23 for 231 yards and two touchdowns in the first half as he led the Chiefs out to a 21-3 lead. The Chiefs’ 2017 season has been completed, which means it’s time for our positional reviews. More 2017 Chiefs Pages. Expectations were for him to learn behind Smith all season and be ready to take control of the team in 2018.Build your custom FanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis on Kansas City Chiefs and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more.As we end 2017 and look forward to 2018, it’s important to ask what did we learn from the year. He also showed he has nerves of steel as he came off the bench to lead the game-winning drive.The wins and losses however, did not live up to expectations. He showed he has the confidence in his abilities to fit the football into tight windows that Smith would never even attempt. He failed time and time again to lead the team to wins with the ball in his hand at the end of a game. Mahomes saw action in week 17 as most of the Chiefs starters rested ahead of their playoff game. The move comes with a heavy price, but it was time for the Chiefs to try to get their quarterback of the future. The Kansas City Chiefs are trading the quarterback to the Redskins for a 2018 third-round draft pick and cornerback Kendall Fuller. There is a chance that the Week 17 comeback win over the Broncos is the best game of his career and we are looking for a new quarterback in two years. The only other personnel change for the Chiefs that occurred was co-offensive coordinator Brad Childress was promoted to assistant head coach, leaving Matt Nagy as the only offensive coordinator. With zero expectations coming into the year, he did just enough to make all of Chiefs Kingdom excited for what could be.We don’t know how 2018 and beyond will go with Mahomes at the helm. General manager John Dorsey was fired on June 22, 2017. His kind of abilities don’t come along every day and if he’s as good as he can be, then the sky is the limit to what he can do.Unfortunately, the Chiefs’ playoff ghosts came back to haunt them for another postseason. The franchise's first starter was Cotton Davidson, who started 25 games for the Texans before being traded in 1962. Without Smith in a uniform, the 2018 season will be the begin of the Patrick Mahomes era. For Smith to maintain his starter spot all season, he would need to break most of these records.
However, it is important to know that if there isn’t a team to trade with the Chiefs have to release him.
While I believe he made it the whole season without dropping the clipboard, the same could not be said for the football. History Starting quarterbacks. His second series was a three-and-out before being pulled for Mahomes to lead the game-winning drive. Because he’s not that guy, the Chiefs know that he is not the future of the position in K.C.Unfortunately Bray did get playing time and he failed miserably. He shied away from throwing deep, got away from the running game and the Chiefs lost 6 of 7 games at one point. If they just look at his numbers and assume they are repeatable than hopefully we can get a good draft pick or two in a trade. Silly me almost forgot, we also learned in 2017 that we will need a backup QB because Bray has been exposed as a bad QB. During those game,s Smith had the ball in his hand with the chance to win the game 6 times and failed on every one of them. The Chiefs can hope that a team or two fall in love with Smith’s numbers and don’t dig much deeper.
Any ideas that the Chiefs can afford to hold on to him, in terms of financially or fan relations wise, are just wrong.Prior to 2017, Smith’s career best in yards, touchdowns, interceptions and quarterback rating had come over the course of multiple seasons. How the Chiefs went from $177 below the cap to deals with Patrick Mahomes and Chris Jones. In terms of Smith’s stats, he exceeded even the best of projections despite only playing in 15 of 16 games. After a huge first half against the Tennessee Titans in the AFC wild-card round, Smith went just 5-for-10 with 33 yards in the second half as the Titans rallied back from a 21-3 deficit, winning 22-21. Because he’s not that guy, the Chiefs know that he is not the future of the position in K.C.Unfortunately Bray did get playing time and he failed miserably. Win wise, it was a make it or break it year for Smith as he needed to reach the Super Bowl if he wanted much of a chance of staying in K.C. past 2017.3. It was believed that the Smith would have the best season of his career knowing Mahomes was hot on his heels and that it would likely be his last season in KC. For Mahomes, the expectations were low for 2017 as he was not expected to play unless there was an emergency or blowout situation. aren’t pretty: 0-1 for zero yards, one fumble and a QBR of 39.6.2. Smith blew past his career numbers by throwing for 4,042 yards and 26 touchdowns while only throwing five interceptions, matching a career low. While we only saw one games worth of action from him, his talent was on full display. First thing we learned is that Smith is who we all thought he was before the year.