As Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes kicked off a week in the media spotlight before Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday, he put the focus where it belongs — on God.
“My Christian faith plays a role in everything that I do,” Mahomes told reporters on Monday during the Super Bowl’s Opening Night event at Footprint Center in Phoenix.
“I mean, I always ask God to lead me in the right direction and let me be who I am for His name,” he said.
“So it has a role in everything that I do, and obviously it will be on a huge stage at the Super Bowl that He’s given me and I want to make sure I’m glorifying Him while I do it,” Mahomes said.
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The 27-year-old quarterback had pointed to God after the Chiefs ground out a 23-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship Game on Jan. 29.
“First of all, I wanna thank God, man,” he said immediately after the game, where he played through a high ankle sprain. “He healed my body this week to battle through that. He gave me the strength to be out here.”
Mahomes, who won his first regular season MVP in the 2018-2019 season, used the speech he gave at the time to mention his faith.
“First, I just want to thank God because without Him none of this would even be here,” he said.
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Before heading to the Super Bowl in 2020, Mahomes told reporters, “Faith has always been big with me,” according to KMBC-TV.
“As long as I’m doing everything the right way and the way that He would want me to do it, then I can walk off the field with my head held high and be able to be the man that I am,” he said then.
“I understand that He’s given me a lot of blessings in my life, and I’m trying to maximize them and glorify…
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