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This guy named notnert427 wrote this on the Texas Tech forum. I thought it was insightful...

1:53 PM Last edited Friday at 2:54 PM by notnert427
I'm really, really excited for Pat. He deserves every bit of this. Selfishly, I wish he had stayed for one more year, but we all knew he was good enough to be drafted highly, and now he has been. Top ten first round is the kind of thing where I'll always understand the decision, happily thank a guy for playing for us, and wish him nothing but the best. To quote The Shawshank Redemption, "some birds aren't meant to be caged; their feathers are just too bright." That's undeniably true of Pat. He was a tremendous representative of Tech on and off the field. He played his heart out for us, and never complained once about the obvious weakness on the other side of the ball that kept him from receiving much of the national recognition he deserved in a situation where a ton of players would have. Pat should have been a Heisman candidate. He should have gotten Crabtree/Harrell levels of attention and more, but his surrounding cast simply wasn't good enough to make outsiders take notice.
I count myself lucky to have seen him play and give me so many memories I won't ever forget. That effort against Oklahoma is quite possibly the best game a college QB has ever played. I know Big 12 defense takes its lumps (and somewhat deservedly so), but that was still Oklahoma he was carving up in ridiculously impressive fashion. The same can be said for the effort against LSU in the Texas Bowl, where Pat was getting virtually zero blocking with two or three pass rushers just in his face immediately on seemingly every play to where he'd have to scramble about 15 yards backwards, throw off-balance, and try to fit passes in against some of the game's fastest/best DBs, and he still managed to somehow produce. It was clear he had something special that we'd see lots more of over the years in the 2014 game against Baylor, but enough of the painful losses. Mahomes would go on to beat UT in Austin in 2015, a rarity which tasted impossibly sweet, and he closed his Tech career on an extremely satisfying note by demolishing the much-hated Bears, which was a fitting end considering that his breakout game early on in his career came up just shy against Baylor.
Mahomes leaves as my #2 all-time favorite Red Raider behind only Welker. Pat is the most exciting football player I've ever watched. Every snap, you knew something special could happen, and it often did. The great tragedy is that it had to. Pat had to be consistently miraculous to keep us in games, and there were so many in which he did everything you can ask from a QB and then some, only to not be rewarded with the ultimate result of a team victory. His record as a starter is not remotely representative of his ability. I can only think of one or two games where I felt like the L was largely on him, and about a dozen in which he played well enough to win and probably would have with even a semblance of a pulse on the other side of the ball. It pains me to admit how much the program failed to capitalize on his abilities, but it is what it is. I'm still infinitely grateful to have had Pat here, and it will be an extreme disservice if his legacy here is marginalized or forgotten down the line based on the teams he was on. Pat was (and is) a special player, and should be remembered as such. Wearing the #5 jersey was some big shoes to fill, but Pat did a pretty damn great job of it.
Now, Pat will don a Chiefs jersey. That he was selected in the top 10 finally kills the dumb "stigma" about our QBs and the NFL, even though in reality, Symons, Kliff, and Harrell were the only three that ever actually had a shot. B.J. basically lost his career to injury, and Kliff and Graham both had decent tenure in the league, but couldn't overcome their lacking arm strength. Mahomes obviously has the arm strength in spades (even over B.J.'s cannon), has similar accuracy to Graham, and is every bit the gamer Kliff was. Mahomes' NFL career remains to be seen, but he broke through a bit of a glass ceiling here and has already massively helped our overall reputation and recruiting when it comes to QBs. Pat's the first who's been generally accepted from the outside as more than just stats or the system, and that's huge. No disrespect to our QBs who came before him and helped whittle that lame, dismissive argument down, but Mahomes just did what they couldn't and made a national splash as a legitimate talent beyond our walls. The really exciting part is that Pat hasn't come close to his ceiling yet and could very well be a superstar in the NFL and will get a real chance at being a "franchise QB" that no TTU QB in the past few decades has had.
Obviously KC loved him, but reports are that New Orleans, Cleveland (shudders), and Arizona were all ready to take him in the successive picks behind that slot even if they didn't. Also, Houston made their affinity for Pat well-known, and given that they traded up almost immediately to nab Watson sure sounds like a "s***, they got our guy, we better make a move on plan B" strategy to me. The point is, Pat was pretty widely regarded around the league, and he should have been. Mahomes made the rounds on all the sports talk shows, did all kinds of private workouts, and put on plenty of fun talent displays like tossing a 78-yard throw, beaning a Dan Patrick in the nose, throwing into ESPN buckets, etc. The consistent refrain was that the more time people spent around Pat, the more impressed they were. I love that the draftnik assclowns like Kiper, McShay, et al. whiffed big-time on the level of excitement around him across the league, as well as that Stephen A. Smith in his typical racist douchery is all irate that Mahomes was drafted before Watson. I love even more that there is so much positivity about KC trading up to get him from their franchise, fanbase, and from most after-the-fact analysis, save a few morons butthurt they got it wrong who are grasping at "he makes bad decisions sometimes" straws despite the fact that the supposedly more "polished" and "ready" Watson threw 7 more INTs than Mahomes in 2016 despite 12 fewer pass attempts. Moving on.
The excitement in KC is palpable. A perusal of their boards finds mostly off-the-charts enthusiasm, and it's not just the post-pick-rationalization type. Their fans were largely clamoring for him pre-draft and are thrilled they made the move to get him. I truly enjoy that many of them seem to have the same disdain for Alex Smith's "game manager" playing-scared crap that I do, and that many realize that they're winning arguably in spite of him. (No, I haven't forgiven Alex Smith for wasting much of Crabs' career.) Tyreek Hill fired the first shot across the bow from the KC roster with a simple smugface tweet, which is interesting given that KC got bounced from the playoffs last year in a game where Hill broke WIDE open twice for potential game-deciding scores, only to have Smith not find him due to his inability/unwillingness to throw deep. If you play fantasy football, whenever Pat takes the reins, Hill and Travis Kelce immediately become truly elite options. That may come sooner than later. I'll be shocked if Pat isn't starting in 2018, and I'm not ruling out that the staff will tire of Smith's timid/ineffectual crap sometime this season when they know they've got a true playmaker in Mahomes. Ideally, I'd like to see Pat not take the job quite yet. He's not half the project some make him out to be, but having a year to adjust to the NFL game speed and learn KC's offense could be huge. I'm reading through some lines here, but it sure seems like the entire KC organization is eager to send Smith out on the ice block the second Pat is ready, as they should.
I initially figured Pat would go to AZ at 13, which also would have been a pretty good fit, but I'm pretty thrilled with where Pat went. KC has invested pretty big in him, and they'll probably be more willing than anyone to let him sling it after becoming so used to Smith's vanilla garbage. They're going to fall even more in love with Pat the first time he launches a TD throw that Smith 1) won't even try and 2) could never make even if he did, at which point Pat will have the latitude to fire away, which is where he's at his best. KC really hit more of a homerun than they even know yet, but it was still all kinds of fun to see their draft parties go crazy as if a huge weight was just lifted off of their collective shoulders when the pick was announced. Contrast that with the extremely questionable choice by Chicago to trade a boatload to draft Trubisky (see: Ryan Tannehill, Mark Sanchez), which was deservedly reacted to with a bunch of facepalms and WTFs, and this comes from a group that has put up with Jay Cutler. To their credit, the Texans deserve some kudos for grabbing Watson (who is a very good player, just not with nearly the ceiling Pat has), but they could have made the move KC did and may well massively regret not doing so. Time will tell there, but KC hit the jackpot here, and perhaps Pat did as well. For all the Favre comparisons that were made of Pat leading up to the draft, ending up with Andy Reid seems fitting. Also, chalk up another reason there for KC to let Pat turn it loose when he gets his shot.
Pat sure seems to have the tools for success in the league. He's some amalgamation of Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, and Ben Roethlisberger. That's pretty high praise, but I think it's apt. Mahomes has the ability of Rodgers and Wilson to buy time/create plays/effectively scramble when needed. The bonus is that he's got the ability and stones to just f***ing heave it and make that wow throw for six like Big Ben does. There is no ceiling if things fall into place. Provided Mahomes makes the adjustment to the pro game, he'll have a deep threat in Hill and a great possession guy in Kelce, and we know he can still produce even if the OL struggles (though KC has a decent line). Pat's a pretty bright kid who's already been the field general for an offense with tremendous success, so there's probably less concern about him grasping the KC offense than there is him simply getting used to the athleticism of the NFL. If that happens, watch out. Mahomes could legitimately become one of the best QBs in the league in a hurry. That's a bit cart before horse, but it is by no means out of the question. We probably won't find out until 2018 and beyond, but I couldn't be more excited to see him step on the field in the NFL. Hell, I can't wait to watch him in the preseason. I think that's true of a ton of people around the country, because Mahomes is must-see TV. The wait begins....