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Patrick Lavon Mahomes II (/ m ə ˈ h oʊ m z /; born September 17, 1995) is an American football quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). Mahomes has led the Chiefs to six consecutive AFC Championship Game appearances and four Super Bowl appearances since becoming the team's starting quarterback in 2018.
Fresh off lending his three Super Bowl rings to the cause on Monday Night Raw, Patrick Mahomes has a prediction for how he might win his fourth, telling Logan Paul the Chiefs will reach Super...
Patrick Lavon Mahomes II (Grim Reaper, Showtime, Magic Man, The Musician, Fatrick, The Gunslinger or Mahomeboy) Position: QB Throws: Right. 6-2 , 225lb (188cm, 102kg) Team: Kansas City Chiefs. More bio, uniform, draft info. 6x Pro Bowl. 2x All-Pro. 3x SB Champ. 2x AP MVP. 2x PFWA MVP. 3x SB MVP. 2018 AP Off. PoY. 2018 Bert Bell Award.
- Tyler, TX, USA
- September 17, 1995
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Patrick Mahomes is an American gridiron football quarterback. He became one of the premier players in the National Football League early in his career after being named the league’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) in his second season. In 2020 he led the Kansas City Chiefs to victory in the Super Bowl, where he was named MVP.
What is Patrick Mahomes’s contract?
In July 2020 Patrick Mahomes signed a 10-year contract extension with the Kansas City Chiefs worth $503 million. At the time, it was the largest contract in sports history, and it made Mahomes the highest-paid athlete in the sports world.
What did Patrick Mahomes study in college?
Patrick Mahomes studied marketing at Texas Tech University. He did not receive a bachelor’s degree, as he left after his junior year to enter the National Football League draft in 2017.
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Mahomes grew up mostly in Tyler, Texas, with his white mother after she and his Black father separated when their son was six years old. His father, Pat Mahomes, was a professional baseball pitcher—a middle-inning reliever—who played 11 seasons in the major leagues with the Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, and Pittsburgh Pirates. As a child, the younger Mahomes often accompanied his father to the ballpark, where he received playing tips from the likes of Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter. Former major league pitcher LaTroy Hawkins was his godfather.
Having shown himself to be a gifted athlete with a strong throwing arm even in boyhood, Mahomes starred in three sports at Whitehouse High School (near Tyler). He stood out as a basketball player and excelled at an even higher level in baseball and football. As a pitcher in his senior year, he employed a 93-mile-per-hour fastball to compile a 23–8 record and to throw a 16-strikeout no-hitter, and he batted .450 on the way to being rated the number 35 overall prospect in Texas. As a quarterback during his senior season, he threw for 4,619 yards and 50 touchdowns and rushed for nearly 1,000 yards. The college sports recruiting website MaxPreps named Mahomes 2013–14 Male Athlete of the Year. Although he was picked in the 37th round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft by the Detroit Tigers, Mahomes chose to play football at Texas Tech University, one of only three Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs to offer him a scholarship (likely because, as a multisport athlete, he had not gained attention by attending any of the elite football camps).
Foregoing his senior year, Mahomes entered the 2017 NFL draft, in which the Kansas City Chiefs selected him in the first round with the 10th overall pick, having traded up to acquire him. The Chiefs had sky-high expectations for him (General Manager Brett Veach called him “one of the best players I’ve ever seen”), but, as backup for starting quarterback Alex Smith, Mahomes played little during his rookie season. When Smith was traded to the Washington Redskins (now Commanders) at the end of the 2017 season, however, Mahomes became the starter. In 2018 he more than lived up to the hype, passing for 5,097 yards and 50 touchdowns and thus becoming the second player (after Peyton Manning) in NFL history to throw for 5,000 or more yards and at least 50 touchdowns in a single season. With Mahomes at the helm of their potent offense, the Chiefs took a 12–4 regular-season record into the playoffs and advanced to the American Football Conference (AFC) Championship Game but lost to the Tom Brady-led New England Patriots in overtime. Mahomes’s wildly prolific season earned him not only Pro Bowl and first-team All-Pro honors but also, at age 23, the league’s MVP title.
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In 2019 a dislocated kneecap kept Mahomes out of the Chiefs lineup for two games at mid-season. Still, he stewarded the team to another 12–4 record and a return appearance in the AFC Championship Game, in which he threw three touchdown passes to lead the Chiefs to a 35–24 victory over the Tennessee Titans and on to their first Super Bowl appearance in 50 years. Mahomes struggled initially in Super Bowl LIV, throwing two interceptions as the Chiefs trailed the San Francisco 49ers by 10 points in the second half. In the fourth quarter, however, he turned the game around, throwing for touchdowns on two successive drives to guide the Chiefs to an eventual 31–20 win. Having completed 26 of 42 passes for 286 yards and rushed for a touchdown (in addition to making those two scoring throws), Mahomes received the Super Bowl MVP award, becoming the youngest quarterback ever to be so honored. During the following off-season he was rewarded with a 10-year contract extension worth some $503 million, which was the most lucrative agreement to date in the history of American professional sports.
The next season, Mahomes passed for 4,740 yards (second in the NFL) in guiding the Chiefs to a league-best 14 regular-season victories. Once again, during the postseason they played their way to the Super Bowl, where Mahomes faced off again with Brady, this time quarterbacking for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. A stout Buccaneers defense kept Mahomes mostly in check, and Tampa Bay prevailed 31–9. In the 2021 season Mahomes racked up 37 touchdown passes and 4,839 passing yards (fourth in the NFL) as the Chiefs, with a 12–5 record, finished first in the AFC West Division. Their march through the playoffs culminated in the hotly contested AFC Championship Game, which resulted in a 27–24 overtime loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. Mahomes had completed 26 of 39 passes for 275 yards and three touchdowns but had also tossed a pair of costly interceptions.
Mahomes had another standout season in 2022, passing for a career-best 5,250 yards and winning the league’s MVP award. In the divisional round of the playoffs, Mahomes overcame an ankle injury to help Kansas City defeat the Jacksonville Jaguars. The AFC Championship Game was a rematch with the Bengals, and the Chiefs won on a last-second field goal. Kansas City advanced to the Super Bowl, where the team faced the Philadelphia Eagles. Despite reinjuring his ankle, Mahomes led the Chiefs to a comeback victory, 38–35, and won his second Super Bowl MVP award.
May 7, 2017 · Learn about Patrick Mahomes, the quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs, who won the MVP and the Super Bowl in 2022. See his career highlights, stats, biography and more on the team's website.
Feb 12, 2024 · LAS VEGAS (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers gave Patrick Mahomes two opportunities to drive for the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl. They should have known — who doesn’t at this point? — that it was one too many.
Feb 10, 2024 · Mahomes became the first player in the history of the four major US sports leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL) to win the championship MVP award three times in his first seven seasons, according to...
