Chiefs rookie Jaylen Watson after 99-yard TD vs. Chargers: 'I woke up knowing I was going to get a pick'
This offseason, the Kansas City Bosses dedicated seven of their 10 draft picks to the cautious side of the ball. Among the remainder of those picks was cornerback Jaylen Watson, whom they chose out of Washington State with a seventh-round pick, No. 243 generally.
Watson wasn't the first or even second cornerback the Bosses acquired on draft day. They took Trent McDuffie in the principal round and Joshua Williams in the fourth. Yet, Watson figured out how to have a tremendous effect against the Los Angeles Chargers on Thursday night, after he got a chance to begin the game following a physical issue McDuffie experienced in Week 1.
With the game tied right off the bat in the final quarter, Watson stepped before a Justin Herbert pass expected for tight end Gerald Everett and took it out, then, at that point, took it 99 yards to the house to give Kansas City a lead it could never surrender.
In addition to the fact that Watson secured himself his most memorable vocation capture attempt and score, however he clearly realized it planned to work out.
"I awakened realizing I planned to get a pick," Watson said after the game, per the Los Angeles Times. "I recently knew being a seventh-rounder and getting my initial beginning, I planned to get tried a great deal. I just felt I planned to get one today."
Watson additionally realized he just had one thing to do subsequent to getting the ball: move beyond Herbert so he could advance toward the end zone. "We have a standard as DBs, you can never get handled by a quarterback," Watson said. "That is my most memorable work, take action on him and simply attempt to rush to the end zone."
Watson did precisely that, and it worked out very well. He likewise permitted just three gets for 25 yards on eight passes tossed toward him, as indicated by Tru Media. For a seventh-round pick in his most memorable game as a starter, there's no way you can beat that.
