Patrick Mahomes stood in the doorway of a room in the University of Kansas Health System oncology unit, sheepishly grinning and peering through the TV cameras huddled around the hospital bed.
The Chiefs quarterback, who was so amped up before his first start at Arrowhead he had to be held back from making his entrance too soon, was a world away from that moment Tuesday afternoon.
He paused a few seconds, reached his hand in his pocket to grab a sharpie, then made his move.
Mahomes, followed by fellow quarterbacks Chad Henne and Chase Litton, entered the room grinning, walking around the cameras and boom mics to come to the foot of Craig Malsbury’s bed.