The young cornerback scanned the receiver's body, looking for a tell. And the moment Demaryius Thomas planted off his inside foot and drove to the sideline, Marcus Peters broke.
Fifty-five yards later, Peters — who correctly anticipated a Peyton Manning hot route with a blitz in his face — was frantically high-stepping into the end zone with the football and posing as his new teammates swarmed him.
It was, to be sure, what Peters hoped the NFL would be like after the Chiefs invested the 18th overall pick in him during year’s NFL Draft.
“Like Eric Berry says, you have to live your dreams out, and my dream was to come to the NFL and to make my presence be felt and to be welcomed by my teammates by my play,” Peters said.