178 Chain Reaction

"Rookie! Rookie! Rookie!"

On the TV screen, the live broadcast was abuzz with excitement.

However, the reactions of the other teams varied and they descended into chaos. A running back? The Kansas City Chiefs had unbelievably chosen a running back? Not a quarterback, but a running back? What kind of senseless, lavish move was this? Had the whole team at the Chiefs collectively taken mushrooms and not yet sobered up?

In the Chicago Bears' war room, there was dead silence.

A second ago, they had been preparing to pop champagne and celebrate securing their cornerstone quarterback.

The next second, the atmosphere of midsummer was plunged into the harsh winter cold, as if falling into an ice cellar, everyone frozen in place.

Ryan Pace stared blankly at the broadcast screen, his mind stopped working, he malfunctioned, even forgetting to curse, devoid of any thoughts:

Running back.

Had the Kansas City Chiefs been aiming to choose a running back from the start?