Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn’t the fastest guy.
PATRICK MAHOMES IIYou dream of your first NFL start when you’re a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.
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I just try to be the best Patrick Mahomes I can be.
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It’s a challenge for all quarterbacks, though: You want to make the big play; you want to throw a touchdown every single play. But at the same time, you have to know that it’s a process.
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You want to be in the first round. That’s the dream. That’s what you see on draft night.
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I was a good student and stuff like that.
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I didn’t start playing football a lot until I was in high school. I played it in seventh and eighth grade, but I didn’t play Pop Warner or anything.
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When I scramble and do those things, I try to look downfield, look for the playmakers, put it in their hands, and let them make all the big plays happen.
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I think, as quarterback and as a football player, you always want to get better.
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In the pocket, I usually keep two hands on the ball.
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East Texas isn’t known for producing quarterbacks. I was never really on the football circuit. I wasn’t the type of guy that put my name out there.
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You have to learn and develop from every experience you see on the field. I might see an unscouted blitz. I might see different coverages than I’m expecting. So I need to process and make those adjustments as I go.
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Playing the scout-team quarterback in practice really helped develop my game.
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It’s not like I mean to throw no-look passes. I think it kind of happens out of instinct. As I do it, I’m like, ‘Dang, I didn’t even mean to do that.
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Confidence Tell Coaches The quarterbacks that win. Those are the quarterbacks that are talked about for being great.
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Definitely, as a competitor, you want to get out there and play.
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You see Tom Brady, you see Alex Smith, and you see all those guys in the pocket and how quick they are with their footwork and how they get the ball out fast. I have to get like that.
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