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  Of course, that also meant Mahomes was losing his best receiver. But Mahomes was looped in and understood why. “That’s where you kinda hit the crossroads—if you want to do that, you can, but it’s not gonna be easy,” Veach says. “It’s gonna have to involve a talent like Tyreek Hill, and so that’s what becomes tough, because it sounds good until you get to the moment where, All right, this is Tyreek Hill. This is what you  said, but do you really want to trade arguably the league’s best receiver? That’s where when you have a plan, you gotta stick to it. You can’t let the emotional side kick in because you can have a plan in place.” The plan extended out to draft day, when Veach traded down for the first time in his five years as GM, dropping from 50 to 54 in the second round. “Getting Brett to trade back was a big deal,” Tillis says. “And it was like a nothing trade, it was picking up a fifth-round pick, but it felt like a watershed moment—at least for me.”

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