Key to team building.
Step 1: Draft a guy like Mahomes.
Step 2: Draft super elite guys like Hill and Kelce.
Step 3: Pay to keep/get top end defensive players while your QB's cap hit is still low.
I hate these kinds of stories. Not that these guys are not good at their job. But in the end it is the about having the players. They invested heavily to get Frank Clark, Tyrann Mathieu and Watkins to be there. Which they could only afford cause they never had to pay a QB during all that time. They rightly never over paid for a guy like Smith.
All they did was not over pay for a crap QB and got lucky enough to hit big on some draft picks, particularly one of those QBs that come along once every 20 years or so, like Montana and Brady. If you want to give anyone credit it goes entirely to their scouting department. Add in that they happened to land one of the better HCs in the NFL for good measure.
But while all of that is nice, no one right now would be talking about them like this is they didn't draft Mahomes. Not that they had a bad program before him, but they were one of those easy out teams in the AFC playoffs. 2015 - They beat the hapless Texans then lose to the Pats in a game that in no way was as close as the 30-27 score says. 2016 - Lose in the Divisional round to he Steelers with home field after a bye. One of the least scary 2nd seed teams in recent memory. 2017 - Lost to the Titans in the WC. Good enough to make the playoffs, but never a team in serious contention. This is what they were before getting Mahomes. If they had ended up with Trubisky instead of Mahomes or Watsons that draft, there would be no articles talking about their team building ability or how smart they are.
Yes, you are having a good run drafting guys overall but you had a better run 4-8 years ago then you have the last 1-3. And maybe, just maybe, luck played a role in that. If not, they why haven't they drafted any guys the level of Hill, Kelce, Jones or Mahomes since 2017?