A year ago at the trade deadline Rob Gronkowski Jerseys Stitched , the Patriots sent quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo to the 49ers for a second-round draft pick. At the time, it looked like a monumental trade for both franchises.Which makes it surprising, a year later, that the team that benefited most from that trade may be the Lions.New England traded the 49ers’ second-round pick to Detroit on draft day, and the Lions used that pick on running back Kerryon Johnson. On Sunday, Johnson ran for 158 yards, the Lions’ best rushing game in seven years, and he’s on pace to lead all rookie running backs this season with 1 Color Rush Damien Harris Jersey ,184 yards.Last year it looked like the 49ers had easily won the Garoppolo trade, as he joined the team mid-season and promptly led them to six consecutive victories. But this season, after signing a massive contract, Garoppolo did not play well before suffering a season-ending injury in Week Three. If Garoppolo doesn’t return to his 2017 form, the acquisition (and subsequent contract extension) of Garoppolo could turn out to be a mistake for the 49ers.The Patriots’ grade on the Garoppolo trade is an incomplete. They moved down in the second round in the trade with the Lions, then made more trades that netted them some late-round players as well as the Bears’ 2019 second-round pick and the Lions’ 2019 third-round pick. Until the Patriots use those pick, we really don’t know how well they made out in the Garoppolo trade.But what we do know is that the Lions got a player who is helping them win games right now. So far, they’re the team that has benefitted the most from the ripple effects of the Jimmy G trade. Derrick Johnson played 13 seasons in Kansas City. He never made the Super Bowl.Three times Youth Damien Harris Jersey , the Chiefs lost in the divisional round of the postseason, including 2003 when they were 13-3 but lost to Indianapolis 38-31 at home in the playoffs.Johnson, though, never had Patrick Mahomes as his full-time starting quarterback. Johnson saw Alex Smith, Nick Foles, Chase Daniel, Matt Cassel, Brady Quinn Womens Damien Harris Jersey , Tyler Palko, Kyle Orton, Brodie Croyle, Tyler Thigpen, Damon Huard and Trent Green start games while he was in Kansas City.Mahomes started only one game his rookie season of 2017, and the Chiefs beat the Broncos.“You take the kid Pat Mahomes, second year and he’s doing all this stuff. I’m like, I’ve been at the Chiefs for 13 years Authentic Damien Harris Jersey , and I’ve never sniffed out a quarterback even close to what Pat Mahomes is doing this early in his career. It just tells you timing is everything,” Johnson said on the 3-Point Stance podcast hosted by former Chiefs defensive end Mike DeVito, Aaron Jackson and Sterling Pingree, via the .The Chiefs finished second in points allowed in 2014, fifth in 2013 and third in 2015. Kansas City had one of the worst defenses last season when they lost to the Patriots in overtime in the AFC Championship Game.Johnson would have liked the Chiefs’ chances with one of the best defenses he played on, Mahomes as the quarterback and the AFC title game in Arrowhead Stadium.“Oh my goodness, we would be licking our chops,” Johnson said. “That would have been a game to see. Now Damien Harris Jersey Boys , Tom [Brady] would have had his fair share, but at the same time, I don’t think he would have [won] in there in Arrowhead with Pat Mahomes as the quarterback and the defense that we had? No sir, that would definitely, we’d be going to the Super Bowl with that.”Brady did win in Arrowhead last postseason, though not with Chiefs defense. Still. . . .Johnson also somehow forgot Peyton Manning.The Broncos went to two Super Bowls in those three years, losing one and winning one. Brady and the Patriots won in 2014. So it wouldn’t have been as easy for the Chiefs as it sounds.