Good news, Chiefs fans. Things are only going to keep going up from here. For the rest of you? We’ve got some bad news.
Patrick Mahomes — who, by the way, is already an NFL MVP and a Super Bowl MVP at 24 years old — apparently did not learn how to play quarterback until six (!!!) years ago. Mahomes says he wasn’t even sure how to read defenses during his MVP season. This is incredible.
He detailed more about his journey in becoming a quarterback on The Shop with Maverick Carter. In High School, Mahomes played safety until his junior year of high school. He transitioned to quarterback… and the rest is history.
“I didn’t understand how to read defenses until, like, halfway through last year. I understood coverages, but how to be able to pick up little tendencies that defenses do — stuff that Brady and them have done and they know it and they just do it. I was just playing.”
Normally, you’d chalk something like this up as just myth making. You’d say maybe Mahomes is just trying to make his legend a bit bigger. But, yo, the way this man plays? You can kind of see it. He just goes.
So that begs the question, if what we’ve seen now is Mahomes just “playing” what comes next? Whew boy.
It’s scary hours for the rest of you NFL fans. Prayers up for y’all. Chiefs fans, y’all are good.
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