The QB battle that unlocked Patrick Mahomes
THE SUMMER BEFORE SEVENTH GRADE, Patrick Mahomes got summoned to the Whitehouse High School football field for a special workout. It wasn't quite a secret. But let's just say the coaching staff in East Texas definitely didn't advertise it to the other 10 to 15 middle school kids who wanted to be Whitehouse's quarterback when they grew up.
The coaches did invite one other kid. The varsity's offensive coordinator, Reno Moore , was running the workout that day and asked fellow seventh-grader Ryan Cheatham to come out, too. Moore had heard hype about both kids, and he wanted to get a quick assessment of what the buzz was all about.
Mahomes was a star pitcher in the Tyler area, the son of an MLB player. Cheatham was just as good as a pitcher. Together, they were the one-two punch that led Tyler's junior baseball team (ages 13-14) to the U.S. title at the 2010 Junior League Baseball World Series.
Cheatham and Mahomes stood side by side that day, doing footwork drills and throwing for Moore. He'd scheduled this workout at a time and place where he hoped none of the other kids would see. "We didn't need anybody thinking we'd already decided," he says.
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Nice read about Mahome's history as an athlete.
