The QB Battle that Unlocked Patrick Mahomes

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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Patrick Mahomes is undoubtedly one of the most talented quarterbacks we have ever seen in the NFL…but there was a chance that his meteoric rise almost didn’t happen at all. Back in middle school, Mahomes was locked in a QB battle with a kid named Ryan Cheatham that lasted for years until his junior season. Mahomes and Cheatham grew up playing baseball and football together, and despite how fiercely competitive they were…they actually became best friends. So Ryan Hockensmith tells you everything about the position battle that made Patrick Mahomes. To help ensure you didn't miss any of our best stories from the past year, we've collected our favorite episodes of 2022 into one playlist. We think you’ll love every episode on there, so check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So right, Hocketsmith, where are we?
0:03.0	Where are we starting this particular story?
0:05.4	Well, this story starts on a very hot day in the summer of 2008
0:10.2	on a football field in the Tyler Texas area.
0:13.2	Two seventh grade boys had been invited out to the field to work out for the high school
0:24.1	football offensive coordinators named Reno Moore.
0:27.5	Now, the first kid was a kid you might recognize his name's Patrick Mahomes.
0:31.8	Yeah.
0:32.8	Rings a bell.
0:33.8	He was 12-year-old superstar baseball player.
0:38.4	His dad was obviously a major league baseball player.
0:41.4	So he brought a lot of fanfare with him.
0:44.7	Everybody knew who Patrick Mahomes was.
0:47.0	The other kid was not so well known.
0:49.2	His name was Ryan Cheedham, but he was a tremendous athlete.
0:52.8	He was just as good at baseball as Patrick Mahomes.
0:56.4	He was just big right-hander.
0:58.4	These two were especially designated as potential starters someday.
1:02.6	All right, so I'm imagining these two barely pubescent seventh graders, Patrick Mahomes,
1:09.8	and his other kid who I have never heard of, getting this tryout.
1:13.4	Their first football tryout, their first taste of being a real-life quarterback, and how
1:18.5	different were the football scouting reports on the two of them at the time?
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