Matt Nagy gave Patrick Mahomes the answers to the test.
Mahomes joined “New Heights,” the podcast hosted by one of his favourite targets, Travis Kelce, and Kelce’s brother Jason, a star offensive lineman on the Eagles, and revealed that Nagy gave him a big boost toward ultimately getting drafted by the Chiefs.
“I was at the facility,” Mahomes said. “We had the meetings, like the top 30 visits, so I was in there for like five hours … Matt Nagy, who was the offensive coordinator then, he really liked me, so he gave me the plays they were going to go over the night before.”
“I had a couple of teams that said they were going to draft me, and that’s true, it’s not like these coaches were making that up. I talked to them in the draft process and they were like, ‘If you’re there, we’re gonna take you.’
“I kind of gave a little inside info to the Chiefs, and I was like, ‘If y’all let me go 12 or below, I’m gonna get drafted by someone else.’”
Mahomes went on to emerge as the franchise’s long-term quarterback, signing a record-breaking 10-year contract extension worth $477 million ($A702m) in the summer of 2020.
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