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• Wide receiver Sammy Watkins to Kansas City for three years and $16 million a year. The Rams, as it turned out, got one season and 39 catches out of this former first-round receiver for the Bills. Watkins, at 24, is on his third team. That’s never good. Kansas City's Brett Veach is a smart young GM, smarter than I am, obviously. Because I would never have paid a guy with 67 catches and 10 touchdown over the past two years the money Kansas City paid him.
The bolded part is where he went wrong. He's only looking at the past 2 years. Why? Especially since in '16 he missed half the season.
KC's GM and all of the other teams in hot pursuit were looking at the skill set PLUS his production over 4 years. It's not all about potential.
Guys who produce get their options exercised. Period.
Buffalo was concerned about that foot ever recovering fully and rightfully so.
That's the only reason it wasn't exercised.