Patrick Mahomes can throw a football at least 80 yards, but Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury’s favorite memories of the quarterback don’t stem from his superhuman arm strength.
Instead, they’re about his fortitude.
Mahomes suffered a second-degree sprain of the AC joint in his throwing shoulder Sept. 29 during a 55-19 win over Kansas. Tech’s medical staff told Kingsbury that Mahomes wouldn’t play for two or three weeks. However, Mahomes didn’t miss a game.
“There were four or five weeks that he didn’t practice much, and he’d get it shot up before the game, he’d get it shot up at halftime and go out there and tough it out,” Kingsbury said in a recent phone interview with the Beacon Journal.