The veteran running back’s pass-protection work has never been more important than it is right now. In light of that, we asked a real-life bodyguard to size up McKinnon’s body of work.
A hobbled Patrick Mahomes took the snap in shotgun. He stepped up in the pocket, shuffled to his left and spotted Foyesade Oluokun, a 230-pound free-running blitzer who had a clean shot at him.
Mahomes bent down into a semisquat, coiling himself in preparation for contact that never came. Jerick McKinnon had uncorked his 5'9", 200-pound frame directly into Oluokun’s chest with a force that rendered NBC color commentator Cris Collinsworth unable to gasp a word in the English vernacular.