{"id":426750,"date":"2023-06-12T18:12:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=426750"},"modified":"2023-06-12T18:12:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:12:03","slug":"qb-patrick-mahomes-discloses-other-nfl-teams-that-were-interested-in-drafting-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/qb-patrick-mahomes-discloses-other-nfl-teams-that-were-interested-in-drafting-him\/","title":{"rendered":"QB Patrick Mahomes Discloses Other\u00a0NFL Teams That Were Interested\u00a0In Drafting Him\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Mahomes was chosen by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/\"> Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> as the tenth overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. After the former Texas Tech great guided the AFC West team to two Super Bowl victories in four seasons, no one questions that choice any longer.<\/p>\n<p>Two Super Bowl titles have already been won by Patrick Mahomes. The Kansas City Chiefs will be thrilled to hear that, but the NFL&#8217;s other 31 teams can only watch in envious silence.<\/p>\n<h2>QB Patrick Mahomes Discloses Other\u00a0NFL Teams That Were Interested\u00a0In Drafting Him<\/h2>\n<p>However, as Mahomes confessed to Dan &#8220;Big Cat&#8221; Katz of Pardon My Take, the two-time NFL Most Valuable Player, donning the Chiefs&#8217; colors almost didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Year 7. \ud83d\udd1c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickMahomes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PatrickMahomes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hytY3X0dJW\">pic.twitter.com\/hytY3X0dJW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chiefs\/status\/1665403540116832260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Actually, a couple other teams\u00a0were quite interested.<\/p>\n<p>Katz inquired: \u201cWas there one team that you thought for sure you were gonna go to?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Patrick Mahomes Superman throw in slow motion! \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/clQmuny2KU\">pic.twitter.com\/clQmuny2KU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brad Henson Productions (@BradHensonPro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradHensonPro\/status\/1666780459987091457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mahomes answered: \u201cThere\u2019s a couple of teams. The Chiefs, I thought for sure I would go here. The Cardinals, they liked me a lot. And the Saints, those are the teams that really liked me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Then the Saints, though. I&#8217;d be still backing up Drew [Brees], man&#8230;When the guys throwing for the stuff he&#8217;s throwing for, you&#8217;re fine with just backing him up and learning as much as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch *6* home runs crushed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChiefsKingdom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChiefsKingdom<\/a> QB <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickMahomes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PatrickMahomes<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MVS__11?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MVS__11<\/a> charity softball game. Mahomes won the Home Run Derby, then went 3-3 in the game, including a Grand Slam. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KCTV5?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KCTV5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KYztJOPjcE\">pic.twitter.com\/KYztJOPjcE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Koller (@JaredKCTV5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaredKCTV5\/status\/1667354560480854021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jackson served as the Cleveland Browns team&#8217;s head coach in 2017. Instead, they used the first overall pick to choose defensive end Myles Garrett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow close was Hue Jackson in drafting you?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Travis Kelce wanted to get on the mic at the White House&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Mahomes got him outta there \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gsCi1ygsnd\">pic.twitter.com\/gsCi1ygsnd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1665829067063541763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The five-time Pro Bowler answered: \u201cI think pretty close. I think I would never know for sure. But they did like me a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid the Bears reach out to you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three-time All-Pro quarterback responded: \u201cI talked to Ryan Pace a lot, honestly. Definitely, Mitch [Trubisky] was their guy. They went and got them. But I met with them. I had the visit with them and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"RB Saquon Barkley On Uncertainty Regarding Contract With Giants: \u201cWe still have time\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/rb-saquon-barkley-on-uncertainty-regarding-contract-with-giants-we-still-have-time\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">RB Saquon Barkley On Uncertainty Regarding Contract With Giants: \u201cWe still have time\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Mahomes was chosen by the Kansas City Chiefs as the tenth overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. After the former Texas Tech great guided the AFC West team to two Super Bowl victories in four seasons, no one questions that choice any longer. Two Super Bowl titles have already been won by Patrick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":398126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,48],"tags":[6284,2211,206,4084,9357],"class_list":["post-426750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kansas-city-chiefs","category-nfl","tag-chiefs-news","tag-nfl-news","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-patrick-mahomes-news","tag-patrick-mahomes-nfl-teams"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}