Colts: Sam Ehlinger working out with Patrick Mahomes can’t be bad thing

If the Indianapolis Colts really want to be the AFC’s best threat to beat the Chiefs, as Louis Riddick famously said, they first have to be the Chiefs.

Rookie QB Sam Ehlinger took the first step towards getting inside their minds this week, working out with a familiar face from plenty of ketchup advertisements.

Ehlinger was spotted in the lab with Patrick Mahomes, and we can only assume they put down their equipment, hugged it out, and immediately started swapping Eric Fisher stories.

Patrick, if you wanted to reunite with your left tackle and help him rebuild his value in Indianapolis, we’re sure Carson Wentz would understand.

Colts QB Sam Ehlinger is working out with Patrick Mahomes. OK!

Have to imagine the conversation went something like this:

SAM: Patrick, can you teach me your natural, God-given arm strength?

PATRICK: “Teach”? I straight-up give it to all my workout partners. Here, drink this!

[SAM glugs down a grape-colored juice, then tosses the jar 75 yards mid-leap]

Lots of upside here!

All in all, we’re most surprised that a Texas Tech Red Raider like Mahomes would be so willing to share his trade secrets with a sixth-round Longhorn like Ehlinger. Isn’t there bad blood between those two parties? Like … significant burnt-orange bad blood?

Ehlinger’s mobility is his greatest asset in the third-string QB race at Colts camp, and that’s one area he can certainly pick Mahomes’ brain about. The two aren’t very similar otherwise, though, but agility exercises and proper lower-half management could go a long way.

Hopefully, this is the first of many fruitful sessions deep in the heart of Texas, all culminating in an AFC Championship Game this year in the blinding, frostbitten cold of Kansas City, where Ehlinger plays the Taysom Hill role to perfection in the most important offensive play of the game.

After a Colts win secures their Super Bowl berth, Mahomes will emerge from the huddle, lock eyes with Ehlinger, shake his hand, and say, “I’ve made a huge mistake.”

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