Inside The Chiefs' Pursuit Of Patrick Mahomes
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In just his third season as the starting quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes will face off against Tom Brady and the Buccaneers on Sunday trying to win his second straight Super Bowl title. Today, we’re joined by The Athletic’s Nate Taylor to look at why the Chiefs first fell in love with Mahomes as a young college quarterback, and how they pulled off the stunning trade to get him in the 2017 NFL Draft.
Read Nate Taylor, Mike Sando, Jayson Jenks and Dan Pompei’s story about Patrick Mahomes: https://theathletic.com/2330642/2021/01/21/chiefs-draft-trade-patrick-mahomes/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:46.0 | In just his third season as the chief starting quarterback, Patrick Mahomes is a winaway |
| 0:50.5 | from his second Super Bowl title. |
| 1:04.2 | Today, the athletics Nate Taylor on why the chiefs first fell in love with Mahomes as a |
| 1:08.6 | young college quarterback and how they pulled off a bold trade to select him in the 2017 |
| 1:14.7 | draft. |
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| 1:31.1 | It's Thursday, February 4th, and this is the lead. |
| 1:35.2 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 2:00.3 | So Nate, along with our colleagues, Jason Jenks, Dan Pompey and Mike Sando, you did some |
| 2:04.9 | digging into how and why the chiefs decided to pursue Patrick Mahomes. |
| 2:10.3 | So let's go all the way back to 2017, six weeks before the NFL draft. |
| 2:15.7 | There was a conference call with the chiefs brain trust. |
| 2:19.1 | Can you tell us who was on that call and what was said? |
| 2:22.8 | There's Clark Hunt, the owner of the KSID chiefs. |
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