Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes said on a preview of HBO's The Shop that he couldn't truly read defenses until "halfway through last year."
"I understood coverages but how to be able to pick up little tendencies defenses do, stuff that Brady and them have done, they know it, and they just do it," Mahomes said on the show. "I was just playing."
Mahomes won NFL MVP in 2018 and became just the first quarterback ever after Peyton Manning to throw for 5,000 yards and 50 touchdowns. And that was before he said he could wholeheartedly comprehend defensive schemes.