Details About Patrick Mahomes That Many People Overlooked Entirely
We all know Patrick Mahomes is the star quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs. We all know he’s won two Super Bowls. And we all know he’s got a multi-million-dollar contract to go alongside his multiple MVP titles. Yet even though Mahomes has been under the scrutiny of the NFL spotlight for over five years now, there are still lots of details about this mega-talented athlete that most people don’t know. These revealing facts somehow slipped under the radar… until now.
He’s not the first Patrick Mahomes
Mahomes' real name is Patrick Lavon Mahomes II. And if you’re a baseball fan as well as a football fan, you might know that Mahomes I has a sporting legacy of his own. He was a pitcher in Major League Baseball and Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball from 1992 to 2003. During that time, Mahomes I notched up 452 MLB strikeouts and played for seven different major teams. Yet while Mahomes I didn’t ever play for the Kansas City Royals, he did pass his skills and passion for baseball onto his oldest son. After all, Mahomes II proved to be a multi-talented athlete from a young age.
Mahomes is good at other sports
When Patrick Mahomes was still in high school, he showed an aptitude for three sports: football, baseball, and basketball. “Patrick is the poster child for the multi-sport athlete,” Mahomes’ high school football coach Adam Cook told Yahoo Sports in 2020. “In high-school football, you are guaranteed just ten games,” Cook said. “Instead [of only playing football], Patrick was always playing something and learning how to win along the way.” “Because he played multiple sports, the overlay of all of those experiences and skills are there in the NFL,” Cook continued. And it seems that Mahomes agrees that it all paid off in the end.
He has basketball to thank for one of his trademarks
While we don’t know as much about Mahomes’ basketball career as we would like — it happened mostly at the high-school level — we do know how it has impacted his football abilities. Mahomes has even credited his trademark no-look passes to the sport. “It definitely helps whenever you have played basketball in your career,” he told Sports Illustrated magazine in 2018. “When you do those no-look passes in basketball, it translates.” How good was Mahomes at basketball? He played for Whitehouse High School in Texas in his senior year, with a per-game average of 19 points and eight rebounds. He was also, apparently, a good team player.
Mahomes had a bright baseball future
Considering that baseball runs in Mahomes’ blood, it’s perhaps not surprising to learn that he was a pretty darn good baseball player. He was something of an all-rounder, showing an ability to hit, run, pitch, and field. He played for his high school team, with the standout moment coming in his senior year, when he pitched a no-hitter with 16 strikeouts. After that game, Mahomes told the East Texas Sports Network, “It’s definitely the best I’ve felt all season.” He also boasted that he was “hard to hit” when he was playing so well. He continued to play in college, too. And Mahomes was so good at baseball that it almost derailed his football career.
