Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes played for Kliff Kingsbury at Texas Tech, so as you can imagine, he holds the new Washington Commanders offensive coordinator in high regard.
Mahomes was asked about Kingsbury this week, and he raved about his former collegiate head coach.
“It’s someone who’s taught me a ton,” Mahomes said, via Bryan Manning of Commanders Wire. “He got me, kind of out of high school, where I was a baseball player trying to play football. Basically, trying to be on my own. You’re leaving the household and kind of being on your own, and he helped me become who I am today.”
Mahomes spent three seasons at Texas Tech, with his best year coming during his junior campaign when he threw for 5,052 yards, 41 touchdowns and 10 interceptions while completing 65.7 percent of his passes.
He was selected by the Chiefs with the 10th overall pick of the NFL Draft that ensuing spring.
Kingsbury is known for his brilliant work with quarterbacks, and Mahomes is well aware of the effect that the former Arizona Cardinals head coach has.
“I think the biggest thing is, you see, with a lot of young quarterbacks is whenever they get to a coach, they kind of try to restrict them and kind of make them be this model of how the quarterback position is supposed to be played,” Mahomes said. “And I think he was early in the game of just saying, ‘Hey, let’s maximize your strengths.’ He would teach me here and there how to be more mechanical and get in the pocket and the fundamentals of the game, but he never restricted who I was.”
The Commanders only the second overall pick in the draft this April, and they are widely expected to take a signal-caller. More than likely, it will be North Carolina’s Drake Maye, who is considered the second-best quarterback prospect in the class behind USC’s Caleb Williams.
It seems fairly safe to say that Mahomes knows a thing or two about Kingsbury, so Washington’s organization should sleep soundly knowing that its offense is in good hands.
Meanwhile, Patrick Mahomes is aiming to win his third Super Bowl as he and the Chiefs prepare to battle the San Francisco 49ers for all the marbles this Sunday.
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