FORT WORTH, Texas _ By now you know Patrick Mahomes received but three offers to play college quarterback, and what you may not know is that it was a TCU assistant coach who predicted the exact moment the attention was going to come for the kid from Whitehouse.
By the second week of September 2012, the junior three-sport athlete from Whitehouse, just outside Tyler, was still regarded as more of a baseball prospect.
On Sept. 14, 2012, that changed when Mahomes led Whitehouse to its first win of the season over Sulphur Springs.
Current TCU offensive coordinator coach Sonny Cumbie, who at the time was on Texas Tech's staff, attended the game to recruit someone else. He told the Whitehouse coaching staff, "People are going to know who Patrick Mahomes is now. This game is going to start generating attention for him."
Nope, TCU never offered Mahomes a scholarship. He only received three offers to play football.
Every Super Bowl there are multiple examples of guys who were overlooked, of recruiting rankings that flopped. Mahomes is the case study of the kid who excelled because he didn't play just one sport, even if it hurt him in the "rankings."
Mahomes has the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl for the first time in 50 years, and he is on the verge of owning the NFL.
