The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback isn’t sure he’s ever met the senator.

Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes clarifies his relationship with U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville: ‘He did not recruit me’

In response to comments made by former Texas Tech coach turned U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes told reporters he was not recruited to Texas Tech by Tuberville after he claimed to have done so earlier this week. Tuberville, Texas Tech’s coach from 2010 to 2012 and now a U.S. senator from Alabama, took credit for having recruited Mahomes to play college football during an appearance on “The Megyn Kelly Show.”

Tuberville had initially corrected Kelly for saying he had coached Mahomes, but went on to say that, “What happened is I recruited him and then I left and went to another school, but I got to be very good friends with him. He’s not just a good athlete, he’s a very good example for a lot of our young youth across this country.”

Kelly apparently isn’t the only one Tuberville has been talking up his relationship to Mahomes to, as President Donald Trump praised Tuberville on Wednesday for the job he did coaching the now-perennial Super Bowl quarterback and NFL MVP.

“You know, his quarterback was named Mahomes. He was a great college coach,” Trump said of Tuberville. “And I said, ‘How good was he?’ He said, ‘You don’t wanna know how good. He made me into a great coach.’ He’s a pretty good quarterback, right? Yeah, he was very good. And he’s a good guy, too.”