'It's going to be different': Drew Lock prepares for homecoming trip to KC as Broncos look to snap skid vs. Chiefs

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Drew Lock once led the Missouri Tigers to a 20-16 win over BYU at Arrowhead Stadium.


It wasn’t the Lee’s Summit, Missouri native’s first trip to the Chiefs’ home stadium.


He’s been there for Chiefs playoff games, too. A Peyton Manning-led Colts team beat Kansas City there in 2004, and Joe Flacco’s Ravens won in Arrowhead during the 2010 postseason.


Lock will return again this weekend — and for the first time, he won’t be rooting for a Chiefs victory.


As the Broncos’ starting quarterback, Lock will aim to snap his childhood team’s eight-game winning streak against Denver.


“I think we’ll all make a little too much of it,” said Lock, aiming to lower the hype around his first trip to Arrowhead with the Broncos. “It’s just another football game. I’ve got to prep like I did the first two weeks and just be ready to go.”


But Lock admitted that playing for the Broncos in front of his friends and family — many of whom are/were Chiefs fans — is “going to be different.”


“I hope that if they walk in there with a Broncos jersey that’s got a ‘3’ on it that they only cheer for the Broncos, because I would appreciate that a lot,” Lock joked when asked if his friends and family may secretly cheer for the Chiefs. “It’s already going to be loud enough as is, so maybe if we can turn over 50 of the Chiefs fans that would have been in there, it’ll help us out in the long run.”


Lock is up for Rookie of the Week honors after his 300-yard, three-touchdown performance against the Texans, and he may need a similar performance to outduel 2018 MVP Patrick Mahomes.


“Last year when he was the MVP, I was at home and got to hear all about Patrick and how well he did, rightfully so,” Lock said. “He had one heck of a year, and they were playing some really good football. My friends definitely think he is a very good quarterback.”


Lock, though, isn't heading back home to prove he’s better than Mahomes — or to show the Chiefs that they should’ve waited to draft him this season.


“It’s probably going to be hard for me to change their mind when you have an MVP quarterback on your team, unless one day that ends up happening with me,” Lock said. “No, Patrick is their guy and I’m just here to prove myself to the guys in this locker room and keep proving it to everyone around here that I should be the guy for this job.”