Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians will face Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes on Sunday, but he easily could have been coaching him.
Back in 2017, Arians was head coach of the Arizona Cardinals and the team was planning to pick Mahomes with the draft's No. 13 overall pick, league sources said. Prior to that draft, the Cardinals sent a large contingent of officials, including Arians and team president Michael Bidwell, to Texas Tech to work out Mahomes. What they saw that day stayed with them.
"He probably had the best workout of any kid I went and worked out personally -- he and Andrew Luck were the two by far on the board," Arians recalled this week, in between preparations for Sunday's game against Mahomes.