Patrick Mahomes likes to note that growing up in Whitehouse, Texas, “football was my No. 3 sport.”
He ranks baseball and basketball as more important youthful concerns. His friends believe he was best at basketball — although at about 6-foot-2 a professional future was limited — and of course he played football and baseball at Texas Tech but was also drafted by the Detroit Tigers. He also golfed, competed in the high jump and took on just about any game that came along.
All of it makes his pursuit of being football’s No.