At this time last year, just before the Chiefs were ready to kick off OTAs, Mahomes was playing golf.
Two years after leaving college, he’s a certified superstar. Three seasons later, in the wake of his junior year, he left and defied projections when the Chiefs traded up to select him with the 10th pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. He then became an overlooked college recruit who ultimately went to Texas Tech. Nonetheless, he won the competition to become the starting QB at his high school in Whitehouse, Texas, about two hours southeast of Dallas, as a junior.
That was the last choice that I ended up making.” I did not think it was going to be football.
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I knew that there was a chance I could go play professional sports. “I was always the pitcher, and in basketball I was always the scorer. “I just knew that every sport that I played in, we were always good and we always had success as a team, and I always knew I was the top guy,” says Mahomes. He says he could’ve been taken in the first two or three rounds of the amateur draft if he had a great senior season on the diamond. Instead, as a teen, Mahomes chose not to concentrate on baseball. It’s been an incredible come-up for someone whose best sport growing up was basketball and who was told he had a good chance of following the footsteps of his father-former major league reliever Pat Mahomes-into professional baseball. That’s when Mahomes will be anointed as a very big deal among a specific segment of football fans. It’s important they nail it because what they get on film here will be seen by millions tuning into the NFL Draft. More energy, more angles, more takes until the right shot is captured. The director, acting like a coach, asks Mahomes to give him more energy. Mahomes spends half a day at Line Studios doing take after take, because capturing his uncanny improvisational skills with cameras only a few feet away ain’t easy. The only thing the production squad seemingly fails to document is one of his absurd, improvised left-handed throws. After that, he tosses some of those preposterously accurate sidearm passes the NFL hasn’t seen on the regular since Brett Favre’s Green Bay heyday. Stylists and hangers-on move to the other side of the studio so they aren’t blown up by a pass the PA can’t handle from Mahomes’ rifle of a right arm. Next up, Mahomes darts across the studio like he’s on the run and throws across his body to a PA playing receiver. He’s asked to flex and fake scream for the camera after he pretends to throw a bomb for a touchdown.
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That’s because Patrick Mahomes-decked out in his full Kansas City Chiefs uniform as he stands in front of a gigantic screen flashing blindingly sharp red and yellow graphics-has a lot of signature moves. After at least an hour of capturing the signature movements and mannerisms of the best young quarterback in the NFL, a production crew of almost two dozen still has another hour to go before they’ve logged every shot on their list. Meanwhile, inside, it’s dark and a little stuffy as the director barks out orders over the booming beats of a playlist featuring Billboard Hot 100 hits from Gucci Mane and Offset, among others. It’s a picture-perfect day in the middle of April in Hollywood. You have to go back to 2016’s release of Madden NFL 17 to find a time when the curse supposedly hit with Rob Gronkowski had injury problems throughout the season and watched the New England Patriots win a Super Bowl without his services.The football version of a music video shoot is going down in a cavernous studio that’s starting to get warmer than the temperature outside. The last players to appear on the cover of the game were Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes for Madden NFL 22.
Is the Madden curse real? It is fun to dissect a bit and there are some valid examples that saw players coincidentally see their season cut short for one reason or another. Seeing some of the greatest players come on that cover, that would def be a dream come true.” “But man, a Madden cover would be a dream come true. “I heard about this Madden Curse,” Parsons said in an interview with CBS Sports while promoting Madden NFL 23. Parsons says it would be a dream come true to appear on the cover of the game. It will be the first year since 2000 that Madden appears on the cover of the game by himself.īut it is safe to assume a player or players will return to the cover for next year’s installment of the game. Madden will be featured on the cover of this year’s game following his passing. The franchise is returning to its roots to pay tribute to the man behind the game, John Madden. Parsons is spending time this summer helping to promote this year’s release of the franchise, Madden NFL 23.
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