Mahomes EPIC Contract 'Trust' For Chiefs Honcho Clark Hunt ALMOST Explained

Depending on the outcome of this season and a career-ending ACL tear . . . All of this happy talk might be nothing more than PR.

But for now we check the cover story . . .  

"The recently announced 8-year, $504 million contract is another outlier deal for Mahomes. He’s once again the highest-paid player in the league, doing so again through an unusually long-term contract that gives Kansas City flexibility in future years.

"It’s only possible if Mahomes has complete trust in the Chiefs’ organization.

"That flies in the face of recent professional sports trends, in which star players increasingly prefer to exert leverage over their organizations by signing shorter-term, higher-AAV contracts. Those deals allow players to maximize their earning potential while maintaining leverage over their organization. Implicit in any short-term deal is the possibility that a player could walk in free agency.

"His contract sends the opposite message, and that contract is only possible because of his confidence in the organization’s leadership. More specifically, his confidence in the team’s owner, Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt."

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Patrick Mahomes is placing trust in Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt

Mahomes' contract says as much about his faith in the Kansas City Chiefs as an organization as it does its faith in him.