Washington CB Kendall Fuller Was Last to Know He Was Part of Alex Smith Trade

In a huge shock, Washington, D.C. went from digesting the words of the Charlatan of the United States, to parsing out one of the more bizarre NFL trades in recent memory. About 30 minutes into Donald Trump's first State of the Union address, Terez Paylor of the Kansas City Star broke news that the Kansas City Chiefs had traded Alex Smith to Washington. It soon followed that the Chiefs would be receiving a third-round pick and an as-yet-unnamed player in return. Washington also would be extending Smith to the tune of 4 years and an average $23.5 million fake dollars per year.

It's all very surreal, mostly on Washington's side. The Chiefs are fairly high on young quarterback Patrick Mahomes, taken with the tenth pick of last year's draft, and they cleared a bunch of cap space in dealing Smith. So KC's good. Washington, however, has been yo-yoing it's own young quarterback, Kirk Cousins, for the last two seasons and now they dumped him for a quarterback that essentially fits the same profile he does, but who will be five years older than Cousins when the season starts.

Anyway, that's all pretty weird, but what about that player to be named? Turns out Kansas City will also be receiving Washington's skilled cornerback Kendall Fuller. And it was news to everyone, including Fuller. He went through a range of emotions including, first, uncertainty:

To temporary relief:

And then, ESPN's Field Yates had the bad news:

Fuller took it all in stride and later tweeted about his excitement about becoming a Chief, and why not? He is leaving one franchise stuck in a morass of dysfunction thanks to owner Dan Snyder's Dan Gilbert levels of incompetence, and heading to a perennial playoff team.

For a taste of just how dysfunctional Washington is, here's Scot Mccloughan—a highly respected talent evaluator with some personal demons the Redskins hired in 2015 as GM, and then smeared publicly as an alcoholic when they fired him last March—criticizing the move.

And, if a former GM sniping at his old team doesn't quite do it for you, can I interest you in a former quarterback somehow injecting himself into the equation…while saying others will find a way to inject him into the equation?

Point is, Kendall, congratulations. Let's just hope for your sake no one gets cold feet—nothing can be officially agreed to until March 14, when the new league year technically begins.