With Flag Football set to be a sport at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, many are starting to imagine NFL stars like Patrick Mahomes, Justin Jefferson and Tyreek Hill competing for gold.
But the team USA’s current flag football star quarterback Darrell Doucette is telling everyone to slow down.
Speaking to TMZ Sports (starts at 5:25 mark), Doucette explained Mahomes or any other NFL quarterback wouldn’t be better than him right now because “they have never played” flag football before.
“I’m not hiding from the competition, none of my teammates nor anybody else in the flag football world are hiding from the competition,” Doucette said. “But at the end of the day, I feel like I’m better than Patrick Mahomes because of my IQ of the game. I know he’s right now the best in the league, I know he’s more accurate, I know he has all these intangibles, but when it comes to flag football, I feel like I know more than him.”
Doucette added that if Mahomes put in the time to learn and train for flag football, then he “should be better than me.”
Doucette has played a key role on Team USA’s flag football team since 2020, helping the U.S. clinch a gold medal at the 2022 World Games as well as win the 2023 IFAF Americas Continental Flag Football Championship.
