Market for Alex Smith will be strong, Ian Rapoport says
Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network thinks the Chiefs could get a solid trade haul in return for Alex Smith.
Kirk Larrabee - 3 hours ago 0
The Kansas City Chiefs should have no problem finding a trade partner for Alex Smith this offseason and could come away with a strong haul in return, according to insider Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network.
Rapoport, who reported over the weekend the Chiefs would be listening to offers for Smith this offseason, was a guest on The Day Shift on 610 Sports Radio Kansas City Monday, where he was asked about the level of interest in Alex Smith and whether or not the Chiefs will be able to trade him.
"A lot," Rapoport said. "A lot, and yes."
Smith is coming off his best statistical season of his career as he threw for 4,042 yards in 2017 with 26 touchdowns, five interceptions, and a 104.7 passer rating. Rapoport says it's that performance along with what Smith can bring to a team's quarterback room that makes him such a hot commodity.
"He was number one in the NFL in passer rating," Rapoport said. "He is a great person, so if you trade for him and then draft a quarterback high, you will get someone who's going to help him. All you need to do is ask Patrick Mahomes. It's actually an amazing thing what a great person Alex Smith is because he's dealt with a lot of crap in his career despite mostly awesome and has come out the other side of it."
There have been several teams speculated to be good fits for Smith, with different situations among each of them. There's the Jacksonville Jaguars and Buffalo Bills, playoff teams that are still fighting quarterback woes; there's the Arizona Cardinals, a team whose starting quarterback, Carson Palmer, just retired, but still has enough talent to be competitive next season; and there's a team like the Cleveland Browns, who might be interested in acquiring Smith to not just help the team start winning again but to be a mentor to a quarterback they might select in the draft.
The latter situation might not seem like an ideal one to many quarterbacks, but Smith has done it before, and Rapoport thinks he might not have a problem doing it again.
"If I was a franchise quarterback, would I really want to help the guy who is brought in to replace me? I don't know," Rapoport said. "For some ridiculous reason, Alex Smith has done it several times, and he's continued to be a great guy. He's going to end up benefiting from all this because first of all, he's probably going to wind up being traded somewhere great. Second of all, I think his legacy will sort of live on and people will know what a good person he is."
Trading Smith would free up $17 million in cap space for the Chiefs, a much-needed amount for a team currently projected to be over the cap next year, and would also allow them to replenish some of the draft picks they traded away in multiple trades in recent months. It cost a 2013 second round pick and a 2014 conditional pick (which turned out to be another second round pick) for the Chiefs to acquire Smith from the San Francisco 49ers in 2013, and Rapoport thinks the Chiefs could get even more in return for Smith than that.
"I think they might do better this time," Rapoport said. "He is a hot commodity, and they are in unbelievable position."
Originally Posted by temper11:
he was 5 for 10 in which 3 of those incompletions were drops that would have extended drives - with no picks. He wasn't killing it in the second half like the first, but he made the throws to extend drives... no one could catch the damn ball.
but, I'm not really interested in having this conversation again. I'm not trying to hold him up as some HOF QB, but to lay the blame for that loss on Smith's feet AGAIN is just patently ridiculous. I've read at least 5 times on these message boards that "Mahomes" would have won the game - of course this assumes that the receivers caught the passes that Mahomes threw right?
Whatever. I like all of you, can't wait for him to be traded.
Originally Posted by Bewbies:
My bad. He was awesome. I don't know what I was watching.
Not what I said - as usual. He was f-ing totally awesome in the first half (Young said the best half of football in the playoffs he'd seen from a QB - ever). Second half he was mearly good enough to win with very limited opportunity (5 for 10 with 3 drops). [Reply]
Drafting Mahomes drove Smiff to have the best season of his career. We can chalk the upcoming draft picks we'll get for Smiff to Mahomes himself. [Reply]
Originally Posted by temper11:
Not what I said - as usual. He was f-ing totally awesome in the first half (Young said the best half of football in the playoffs he'd seen from a QB - ever). Second half he was mearly good enough to win with very limited opportunity (5 for 10 with 3 drops).
Smith threw for 30 something yards in the second half and he was "merely good enough"?
Originally Posted by temper11:
Not what I said - as usual. He was f-ing totally awesome in the first half (Young said the best half of football in the playoffs he'd seen from a QB - ever). Second half he was mearly good enough to win with very limited opportunity (5 for 10 with 3 drops).
Mahomes had a bunch of drops in Denver. It's not a good excuse. [Reply]
Originally Posted by temper11:
Not what I said - as usual. He was f-ing totally awesome in the first half (Young said the best half of football in the playoffs he'd seen from a QB - ever). Second half he was mearly good enough to win with very limited opportunity (5 for 10 with 3 drops).
Sooo, still a huge pussy when we needed him to come up with something..anything? [Reply]
Originally Posted by jd1020:
Smith threw for 30 something yards in the second half and he was "merely good enough"?
Kill yourself.
Do you guys even notice the dropped passes? does it even register? I'm sure if Mahomes threw those passes and they were dropped you'd go apeshit. [Reply]
Originally Posted by temper11:
Do you guys even notice the dropped passes? does it even register? I'm sure if Mahomes threw those passes and they were dropped you'd go apeshit.
Did you notice the drops of the Titans receivers? Doubt it. I would forget them too if my QB came back and overcame them.
You've got your head so far up Alex's ass you cant even see the light of day. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pablo:
Sooo, still a huge pussy when we needed him to come up with something..anything?
you mean like the throw to Wilson which should have been caught to put the team well within FG range and possibly in postion for a TD, or the one that Harris dropped, or the other freakin' TE who I never even heard of? all of which would have extended the drives. you mean if he'd have completed those throws? [Reply]
Originally Posted by temper11:
you mean like the throw to Wilson which should have been caught to put the team well within FG range and possibly in postion for a TD, or the one that Harris dropped, or the other freakin' TE who I never even heard of? all of which would have extended the drives. you mean if he'd have completed those throws?
You guys have gotta stop counting that Wilson play as a drop. Holy hell. [Reply]
