Patrick Mahomes’ dad reveals Bears’ colossal draft mistake with Chiefs QB

Bears fans caught a stray on Monday when Patrick Mahomes’ father revealed the team planned to draft the Chiefs QB before trading up for Mitchell Trubisky.

It was already hard enough to be a Bears fan spending the last decade mired in mediocrity.

Then Patrick Mahomes’ father, fresh off a celebration at the expense of Joe Burrow, had to come in and ruin moods in Chicago by revealing that the Bears were on the verge of drafting Mahomes in 2017.

According to the elder Mahomes, Bears officials informed the quarterback that they were prepared to draft him No. 3 overall. He expected to be a Bear.

“Once they traded up and got Mitch (Trubisky), you know it kind of hurt him. It really did,” Mahomes Sr. said on Parkins & Spiegel on 670 The Score.

Instead of taking Mahomes at No. 3, the Bears swapped picks with the 49ers to move up and take Mitchell Trubisky.

“He definitely wanted to be a Bear,” Mahomes Sr. said, confirming to the hosts that his son was specifically dogging the Bears for not picking him when he counted out the teams that passed on him after a touchdown at Soldier Field in 2019.

The Bears drafting Patrick Mahomes is now one of the great what-ifs in Chicago

How’d skipping on Mahomes work out for them? Trubisky went 29-21 with no playoff wins in four seasons with the Bears, who had to use another first-round draft pick on a quarterback, Justin Fields, in 2021. And there’s already talk of the possibility of trading in Fields for Bryce Young.

Meanwhile, Mahomes has taken Kansas City to five consecutive AFC Championship Games and is about to make his third Super Bowl appearance, looking for his second win.

Would Mahomes have found the same successes he’s had with Andy Reid in Chicago with John Fox or Matt Nagy as his head coach? We’ll never know.