{"id":702966,"date":"2019-01-17T12:14:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T17:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=702966"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:19:05","slug":"alex-smith-heaven-sent-mentor-for-patrick-mahomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=702966","title":{"rendered":"Alex Smith &#8216;heaven-sent&#8217; mentor for Patrick Mahomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Mahomes is having quite the moment. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback is playing this weekend in the AFC Championship and will likely win this season&#8217;s MVP award. <\/p>\n<p>But his success didn&#8217;t come overnight. Mahomes spent the 2017 season learning from quarterback Alex Smith, who is now with the Redskins. <\/p>\n<p> &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/jan\/17\/alex-smith-heaven-sent-mentor-patrick-mahomes\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/jan\/17\/alex-smith-heaven-sent-mentor-patrick-mahomes\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Alex Smith &#039;heaven-sent&#039; mentor for Patrick Mahomes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Mahomes is having quite the moment. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback is playing this weekend in the AFC Championship and will likely win this season&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908163,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702966\/revisions\/1908163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}