whitehouse — Long before throwing passes as the starting quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes II was throwing them down the road, when he took the field as number five for the Whitehouse Wildcats.
"Patrick’s a lot different quarterback now than he was then,” says Adam Cook, Whitehouse HS Athletic Director. “You still see some of those things that were kind of raw when he was here in high school, but from the last two weeks, for him to be able to break the records that he's done, he's developed a lot as a quarterback."
Cook served as the head coach of the Whitehouse High School football team during Mahome’s memorable senior year.
"You knew his leadership ability was something that was very unique, something that was very special at a young age."
The same leadership abilities partnered with the talent that got the former Texas Tech gunslinger drafted in the first place are what led to his record-breaking game on Sunday. Playing against the Pittsburg Steelers, Mahomes successfully threw six-touchdown passes. That combined with his four touchdown throws in last week’s game, lands Mahomes in the NFL records with the most touchdown passes in two regular season games.
"I tell people this all the time, God didn't give a whole lot of them arms out. How far he can throw it, the different angles of which he can throw out, and just really how quick he gets the ball out, I think separates him from a lot of people."
Cook smiles with passion as he thinks of what's to come for Mahomes, a player he uses to inspire his current athletes.
"He had a lot of teammates that are doing the same thing. They're just not doing it on the football field on Sunday nights. They're doing it in hospitals as doctors, as nurses, in the business world. But he's the one that we get to turn on the tube and watch him play on Sundays."
With two of his team's toughest games out of the way, Cook said there's one thing he hopes drives Mahomes to even more victories.
"Main thing is to just let him know how proud of him this community is, and the way that he represents Whitehouse, East Texas, and Texas tech, and everything that he's apart of now, Kansas City. We’re proud of him."