They say football is a game of inches and, in the Chiefs’ divisional playoff win over the Jaguars, there’s real proof of that going back more than 16 months before the ball was snapped at Arrowhead.
It was late August 2021. The Chiefs, with a reworked offensive line room, had a surplus at tackle. Tackles are always valuable on the end-of-camp trade market, and the Patriots had a need at the position and were in talks to acquire Yasir Durant, who Kansas City had developed as an undrafted free agent over the year prior. The Giants came in late, offering a conditional seventh-round pick. The Chiefs went back to the Patriots, saying a hard seventh would get it done.
New England forked over the pick and, based on the conditions set, there’s no guarantee the Chiefs would’ve gotten that pick from the Giants had Durant gone there.
