Patrick Mahomes did not waste any time switching up his hairstyle after the Kansas City Chiefs got blown out in the Super Bowl. 

In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Mahomes’ barber, DeJuan Bonds, said the quarterback’s polarizing haircut happened on February 11, less than 48 hours after the Chiefs’ drubbing at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX on February 9.

Bonds conceded that Mahomes, 29, was eager to make a change after the defeat, which brought a shocking end to the Chiefs’ quest to become the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive Super Bowls. 

“There might be a little bit of truth to that,” Bonds told Us. “Most of it came from the fact that he’s always been wanting to do it. But the Super Bowl loss might have ramped it up by a couple of days or weeks, sure.”

Bonds, who has been working with Mahomes for years, revealed he and Mahomes actually talked about performing the haircut “before the season,” but didn’t want to hinder the Chiefs’ success. 

“We said we weren’t going to mess with past superstitions,” Bonds explained. “He wasn’t trying to mess with it and cut his hair before the football season. It was one of those things he had been wanting to do for a while. But he wanted to wait until after the Super Bowl. He was like, ‘Hey, it’s time to give me a new look.’”

Mahomes officially debuted the new haircut in public on a Monday, February 25, date night with his wife, Brittany Mahomes, as the couple attended a college basketball game between his alma mater, Texas Tech, and Houston in Lubbock, Texas.

The new ‘cut has been incredibly divisive on social media, but Bonds said he was “not surprised” about the feedback.

“A lot of people have mixed reviews about his hair and how they wanted him to cut it off or how they wanted him to keep it,” Bonds explained. 

In fact, Mahomes’ fresh look was supposed to be even more drastic before Bonds had to step in and convince the football star otherwise. 

“The whole time that I’ve been cutting his hair, he just lets me do what I do,” said Bonds, who owns Purple Label Barbershop in Overland Park, Kansas. “But when he asked for a change, he basically was like, ‘Just cut me all off.’”

Bonds continued, “I was like, ‘No, no, no. We’re not just going to cut it all off.’ We’re actually going to collab on this and go a little bit at a time, take it a little bit down. We kind of came to a common ground like, ‘OK, this is the cut, this is the cut, this is the length.’ It was a collaboration on this last one.”