Mahomes spent his rookie season in 2017 as a backup to Alex Smith, but his teammates and coaches knew they were witnessing a budding star.
"I never got fussed at from the coaches in practice like we were that year," Johnson said."Usually we know what the offense is going to do. We practice it. We know the plays. We just have to respond the right way. We'll make plays, get an interception here and there, knock some passes down. Very rarely does the offense make plays against us.
"When he would run a [run-pass option], I would try to bait him," Johnson said."He would read me and I would move for the run, but just enough to make sure he threw the ball and I'll still be there to pick it off. I never got there. He threw it right by me. My coach was looking at me, yelling at me. But there was no way I could have gotten to that ball. There was nothing I could have done.
Veach's routine at training camp after practice is to retreat to the dorm room that doubles as his office and watch the morning's session again on video. That year, he watched the passes made by their rookie quarterback first before viewing the rest of practice. He usually doesn't spend much time watching defensive drills during practice, instead working off to the side with the starting quarterback. But he would stop to watch Mahomes practice against the Chiefs' starting defense in 2017.Most often, the defensive coordinator will instruct the quarterback where to throw the ball on any given play in order to help the defense prepare.
"He just had this calmness about him and that seems to be natural for him," Schwartz said."He didn't get intimidated by the moment, and that's something you want to see on the road in Denver. In practice, when he's on the scout team, he can run around and chuck it and not really have to worry about things. The game is really when you get to know how someone can handle pressure situations. It was good to see. It was a fun game and it turned out well.
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