BREAKING News: The NFL world was set abuzz as Patrick Mahomes unveiled a jaw-dropping maneuver that had been whispered about for years

He finally did it. After years of hearsay, myth and speculation, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw a behind-the-back

forward pass in a competitive football game Saturday. He broke out the move in the first quarter of a preseason contest against the Detroit Lions at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, and tight end Travis Kelce turned the low throw into a first down.

As you can imagine, the NFL world reacted rationally to this development-which comes on the heels of the Chiefs winning back-to-back Super Bowls, and Mahomes a pair of MVP awards, without the aid of any behind-the-back passes

ESPN’s Bill Barnwell suggested that there may have been a method to Mahomes’s madness.

Former ESPN analyst and NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III compared Mahomes’s stylings to those of basketball players