The lessons Patrick Mahomes learned as a high school safety that helped him become an elite QB
New York Times— Sitting down at a table, Patrick Mahomes looked at the screen and smiled. “Well, we had a good quarterback in front of him,” said McFarlin, Whitehouse’s head coach for Mahomes’ first three seasons. But is our biggest hole at safety, and can he do the job?’ “Not only was the answer obviously yes, but it was an upgrade anyone we had.” Together, the Whitehouse coaches — McFarlin, Cook and Shuck — persuaded Mahomes with an old-school approach, one they believed would help him develop into a better athlete, even if he didn’t pursue football in college. “I know you’re going to compete for the quarterback job next year,” Shuck told Mahomes, “but there’s no better way to prepare for that than looking at it from the opposite side.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ryan Cheatham Mahomes had another reason for agreeing to play free safety: Instead of watching from the bleachers, he wanted to be with the rest of his close friends who would be on the field every Friday night. “He was probably the best secondary player I’ve seen at the high school level in person.” GO DEEPER Patrick Mahomes' first five years were special.
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