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If you ask Chiefs coach Andy Reid for his favorite play from Sunday’s 44–23 romp over the 49ers, his answer might surprise you. I don’t know for sure that Joshua Williams’s pick at the end of the first half—the 6'3" fourth-round corner out of Fayetteville State skied over San Francisco’s Ray-Ray McCloud to pick off Jimmy Garoppolo at the goal line—would be the one. But after talking to him as the Chiefs made their way to the San Francisco airport early Sunday night, I get the feeling it was up there for the 64-year-old.
And it wasn’t just the play, or how consequential a play it was, though it just so happened to be spectacular and consequential. It’s what it signified for the 23-year-old as a player.