This week, the Washington Commanders hired Kliff Kingsbury as their new offensive coordinator, and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes seems to think it’s a great hire.
Kliff Kingsbury was the college head coach of Patrick Mahomes with the Texas Tech Red Raiders, recruiting Mahomes out of high school and helping develop him as a young quarterback. And Mahomes has high praise for Kingsbury.
“It’s someone who’s taught me a ton,” Mahomes said according to USA Today. “He got me, kind of out of high school, where I was a baseball player trying to play football. Basically, trying to be on my own. You’re leaving the household and kind of being on your own, and he helped me become who I am today.”
Mahomes believes that Kingsbury is exceptional at developing young quarterbacks because he does not restrict how quarterbacks play the game and allows them to be themselves.
“I think the biggest thing is, you see, with a lot of young quarterbacks is whenever they get to a coach, they kind of try to restrict them and kind of make them be this model of how the quarterback position is supposed to be played,” Mahomes said. “And I think he was early in the game of just saying, ‘Hey, let’s maximize your strengths.’ He would teach me here and there how to be more mechanical and get in the pocket and the fundamentals of the game, but he never restricted who I was.”
We’ll have to see how Kingsbury does at Texas Tech.
