Next step in Mahomes’ development: Break glass only in case of emergency
BY VAHE GREGORIAN
vgregorian@kcstar.com
Anticlimactic as it might seem, his exhilarating Thursday night performance against Tennessee will about do it for The Patrick Mahomes Experience this season.
At least if everything goes the way the Chiefs want it to, the much-heralded inevitable successor to quarterback Alex Smith now might as well be put in suspended animation protected by bubble wrap and surrounded in mothballs as his due date awaits.
Actually, a big part of his next tier of development lies just ahead in the routine of the No. 2 quarterback, preparing as if he’s going to start and always knowing he’s a play away from being in.
But the master plan calls for him to stay away from the fray for the foreseeable future.