Editor’s note: This is the 14th installment of The McGinn Files, a series looking back at NFL drafts of the past 35 years. The foundation of the series is Bob McGinn’s transcripts of his annual interviews with general managers, personnel directors and scouts since 1985.



For now, in the endless run-up, Jimmy Garoppolo seems perfectly content to accept second billing in his Super Bowl pairing with Patrick Mahomes. But don’t confuse modesty with insecurity.



Due largely to circumstance and injury, Garoppolo has stood in the shadows most of his career. The latest indignity was the insinuation that he somehow isn’t worthy after the 49ers basically needed him only to hand off in their playoff beat-downs of the Vikings and Packers.



Many NFL evaluators got Garoppolo wrong coming out of Eastern Illinois University. The Chiefs would be wise not to repeat that mistake now.



“The last few weeks they’ve been running all over...