With the Chiefs winning back-to-back Super Bowls and reaching the Super Bowl in four of the last five years, you’d think that the last thing the other 31 other teams would want to do is anything that helps them get what they want. That’s what has so many people confused about what the Buffalo Bills did last night.
In the waning picks of the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft, the Buffalo Bills traded down from No. 26 overall with the Chiefs for the No. 32 overall pick, allowing the Chiefs to take their top target: Texas wide receiver and 40-yard dash record-setter Xavier Worthy. That move by the Bills immediately had fans calling foul.
For starters, the Chiefs have been by far the biggest obstacle to the Buffalo Bills in recent years. They’ve met four times in the regular season and three times in the postseason in the past four years, with the Chiefs coming out ahead in all three of their playoff meetings.
So with the Chiefs being the Bills’ biggest rivals in pursuit of Super Bowl glory, it makes little sense to most people that they would make a move that lets the Chiefs get better.
“They just made their biggest rivals better…so yeah,” Trey Wingo said succinctly.
“Clearly they were looking for a trade partner to gather assets, and had no one else. But still…come on guys,” a user replied to him.
“And this is why the Bills are stuck behind the Chiefs forever,” wrote another.
Even if the Bills were just trying to accumulate assets, it really feels like they handed the Chiefs a player on a silver platter.