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The Chicago Bears are likely already sick to their stomachs after trading up to No. 2 in the 2017 NFL Draft to take Mitch Trubisky. They don’t need Patrick Mahomes to rub it in.

But Mahomes clearly still has a chip on his shoulder after falling to the Kansas City Chiefs at No. 10, and he picked the perfect moment to troll the Bears as the Chiefs dominated them in Chicago on Sunday night.

After Mahomes threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Travis Kelce with 52 seconds left in the first half, giving the Chiefs a 17-0 lead, Mahomes counted to 10 on his fingers as he ran back to the sideline, making sure everybody knew he went eight picks after Trubisky, who has not looked like the franchise quarterback the Bears hoped they were getting.

“Honestly, I was just out there having fun,” Mahomes said, according to The Athletic, trying to downplay the celebration. “Me and my teammates had a big score before the half and I was just trying to enjoy it. You see me play. I play with emotion. I like to go out there and have fun with my teammates.”

“I don’t know if there was necessarily a meaning,” Mahomes added. “I was just in the moment. I know I can’t dance — or anything like that. I leave that to the receivers and I do what I can do.

“I just kind of go out there and enjoy the moment. That’s who I am.”

Mahomes, 24, won the NFL MVP award last year in his first season as a starter, throwing for 50 touchdowns and more than 5,000 yards, and this season he made the Pro Bowl for the second straight year. The Chiefs are 11-4 and headed back to the postseason as AFC West champions.

Trubisky, 25, appears to have taken a step back this season with 2,931 yards, 17 touchdowns and 10 interceptions in 14 starts. The Bears are 7-8 and bound to miss the playoffs after winning the NFC North and losing a heartbreaking Wild Card-round game in 2018.

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