Sammy Watkins Details His Discontent In Kansas City, Bad Times In Buffalo, Literal Demons On Earth, And More In B/R Profile

Bleacher Report interviewed Chiefs WR and Super Bowl hero Sammy Watkins in a piece that went up today. It’s a lengthy read filled to the brim with Watkins’ candor about football life, his unique world views that include a scuffle with a demon and thoughts on life within the “astral realm”, and his brushes with retirement. You should go read the whole thing because each paragraph is more insane than the last but here are some of the highlights!

Sammy Watkins on his unhappiness with his role in Kansas City:

He will not play third or fourth fiddle on this team anymore. Not that he’s said a peep about it to the team. If anything, Watkins believes he’s been the one keeping other young receivers in check. He taught selflessness. He put others in position to score and was the first teammate on site, in the end zone, to celebrate.

So, briefly, Watkins daydreams of a career with Joe Burrow or Tua Tagovailoa—”I’ll follow one of them!”—and building a Super Bowl winner as The Guy somewhere else. He didn’t like how the Chiefs left him out of so much of their marketing, either—the fact that he wasn’t on the marquee next to Patrick Mahomes, Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce.

He vows to tell the Chiefs where he stands. He won’t take a pay cut, and he needs his 100 targets, 1,000-plus yards, 12 touchdowns this season.

“I’m praying and hope they do right by me if I go back,” he says. “If they don’t, it’s going to be World War III. Seriously. Because I feel like I’ve been doing everything in my power to stay positive, to continue to uplift everybody on the team. To put myself last, to literally always put myself last.”

Sammy Watkins on his time in Buffalo:

But here’s what you did not see: a 21-year-old drinking every night. That’s no exaggeration. Watkins partied “every night”—yes, “every night,” he repeats—turning downtown Buffalo’s Chippewa Street into his own personal frat party. Beer, liquor…Watkins didn’t discriminate in lighting his $12.8 million signing bonus on fire with friends who followed him north. “Living fast,” he calls it, holding up a pretend blunt. Yeah, he smoked plenty too.

“I would go out and get wasted,” he says. “Wasted wasted.”

Sammy Watkins on his near-retirement when the world thought of him as a bust after he injured his foot again:

Instead of getting scheduled treatment, he stayed away from the Bills’ facility. Nobody heard a peep from Watkins as he, admittedly idiotically, ripped the boot off his foot to jog around town. He returned to action too soon, in two-and-a-half months, and only damaged his foot further. Of course, he was doing all this damage to himself, but he couldn’t see that. Not at the time. His life was at a crossroads.

“Literally, just questioning everything in my life: ‘Am I supposed to be doing this? Is this my purpose? Is this a sign for me to quit football?'” he says. “This is what God’s telling me. I felt like he was telling me to stop. Just stop.”

Sammy Watkins on the world’s upcoming new Dark Ages, told to B/R’s Tyler Dunne before Watkins was even aware of the spread of COVID-19:

“It’s a new world coming. It’s definitely coming. I don’t know what direction it’s going, but there’s definitely a new order coming. I don’t know who’s going to be in control of it, but we’re in the Dark Ages right now. For sure.”

Dark Ages? What? He doesn’t break cadence.

“The darkest times ever. And there’s going to be more darkness, more craziness.”

“Just darkness. … Just the way the world is turning. The s–t you’re seeing. People are getting taken. Killings. The dying. The way the world is turning. I don’t think it’s any human that’s doing—there are other things.”

Sammy Watkins on the world around us and his magic powers:

Watkins believes we all move through an astral realm in which you can manifest outcomes into the physical world. Like this past AFC Championship Game. Yeah, he made that all happen. He hears voices that tell him when danger’s near. He knows, for certain, that “words cast spells.”

He knows spirits—”entities,” he calls them—move through us all via the etheric body, one of the seven bodies of multidimensional consciousness. They can be good. They can be evil. They all want to experience our physical world. Most humans are not conscious of them. He is. He can consciously ignore evil spirits trying to cling to him. But he also believes this: When he refuses to let that evil spirit get what it wants in him, it can cling to someone close to him.

Sammy Watkins also discusses:

• His belief in teleportation
• His love for Andy Reid, who calls Sammy “Starship 14”
• Our lack of free will thanks to the aforemention entities inside of us
• His plans to leave Earth for Mars after the Chiefs win another Super Bowl
• His psychic powers that fellow Chiefs WR Mecole Hardman experienced first hand last season
• His stepbrother Jari McMiller who went from a similarly talented football player to an FBI target for a RICO case
• His beliefs in reincarnation and how they instill his lack of fear of death

Needless to say, it’s a LOT. Read the entire profile from Tyler Dunne on Bleacher Report for the rest of it and prepare to be baffled as to where you should draft Sammy Watkins in your leagues next year. Third round if he can keep the dark entities at bay, 10th round if his spirit flies to Mars prematurely. That’s my professional prognostication.