Paranoia
“He won’t name names, but he could sense bad energy, from players and coaches alike. He could see it in one person’s eyes, in the hallway, when that person then did a 180 to walk the other direction. He felt it when someone told him during one game that he could injure himself if he entered, and, ‘Boom,’ Watkins says, ‘I get hurt.’ He thinks one coach, at times, was playing for the other team. He thinks there are some on the staff who’d rather lose than see him succeed.“
The ugly side of the story really comes off to me as paranoia. The idea that there are people within the Chiefs’ organization, namely teammates and coaches, actively rooting for Watkins to fail. I can only imagine that this comes from his past experiences in the NFL. That his level of trust has been diminished between his time with the Bills and Rams.
You could also point to Watkins being selfish, but name me an NFL receiver that doesn’t want 100 catches over 1,000 yards and over 10 touchdowns in a season? Watkins should want the ball more and you should want him to get the ball more. He’s become a playmaker who shows up for the Chiefs when it counts the most.