Chiefs first-year starter Patrick Mahomes submitted an early contender for touchdown pass of the year yesterday. Not only did he run 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage to avoid the rush, he fired a wrong-footed sidearm strike on the run right into Chris Conley’s bread basket.
It was a jaw-dropping play, but I have a feeling Mahomes’s high school teammates weren’t too surprised. Before Sunday’s game, Mahomes’s high school coach sent The MMQB’s Robert Klemko a highlight of a then-16-year-old Mahomes making a very similar play.
Mahomes, the son of a former MLB pitcher, credits his ability to make improvisational throws like that to his baseball background.