{"id":139203,"date":"2023-03-12T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=139203"},"modified":"2023-03-10T21:46:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T02:46:38","slug":"patrick-mahomes-making-case-for-himself-in-the-goat-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/03\/12\/patrick-mahomes-making-case-for-himself-in-the-goat-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes Making Case for Himself In The GOAT Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may only be six years into his NFL career (five as the starter), but Patrick Mahomes is doing things no one else has ever done, including the current GOAT, Tom Brady.\u00a0 In his first five years as starter, he has already been to the Super Bowl three times and won twice, most recently against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/eagles\/\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>.\u00a0 While there are many teams that drafted ahead of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2017, none have found anywhere near the success the Chiefs have.<\/p>\n<h2>Patrick Mahomes Already in the GOAT Conversation<\/h2>\n<p>In his first five years as the starting quarterback for the Chiefs, he has never missed an <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2021\/01\/24\/kansas-city-chiefs-afc-championship-game\/\" target=\"_self\">AFC Championship Game<\/a> appearance.\u00a0 Three of those years have ended in the Super Bowl with two of them being victories.\u00a0 He has already won two <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/02\/26\/top-6-favorites-2023-nfl-mvp\/\" target=\"_self\">regular season MVP awards<\/a> and two Super Bowl MVP awards.\u00a0 It is hard to imagine that he is only 27 years old and has a lot of games left in him.\u00a0 His first season as the starter did not end in a Super Bowl championship, but did end in an MVP award.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Patrick Mahomes during the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Chiefs<\/a> Super Bowl leading touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;F**k it, I don&#39;t know.&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SasN0yG2Tb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/SasN0yG2Tb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL_DovKleiman\/status\/1626247968813621250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mahomes became only the third quarterback in NFL history to throw for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statmuse.com\/nfl\/ask\/who-has-the-most-passing-touchdowns-in-a-season\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50 touchdowns in a single season<\/a>.\u00a0 In fact, there have only been 19 times in a single-season that a quarterback threw for 40+ touchdowns.\u00a0 Patrick Mahomes, at 27 years old, already has two of those and only fellow GOAT&#8217;s Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers have more such seasons with three each.\u00a0 This past offseason, the Chiefs even <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2022\/12\/01\/unstoppable-tyreek-2022\/\" target=\"_self\">traded Tyreek Hill away<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/dolphins\/\" target=\"_self\">Miami Dolphins<\/a>.\u00a0 Many thought the Mahomes magic wouldn&#8217;t be there without The Cheetah to catch his passes.\u00a0 As we all saw, this was not the case as Mahomes still led his team to a Super Bowl victory.<\/p>\n<p>If the multiple 40 touchdown seasons were not enough, Mahomes threw for over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statmuse.com\/nfl\/ask\/who-has-the-most-passing-yards-in-a-season\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5,000 yards<\/a> this past season, marking the second time in his career he has accomplished this.\u00a0 There have only been 15 times a quarterback has reached 5,000+ yards passing in a single season.\u00a0 He now has two of those and only Drew Brees, with five such seasons, has more. He is presently tied with Tom Brady for the second most 5,000+ yard passing seasons in a career.\u00a0 Needless to say, this has been the strongest start to a quarterback&#8217;s career in history.<\/p>\n<h3>Moving Forward<\/h3>\n<p>Patrick Mahomes is already in the GOAT conversation, and his career trajectory seems to firmly put him in the conversation to break the aforementioned records and many other passing records over the course of his career.\u00a0 Will he reach <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/01\/31\/a-definitive-ranking-of-tom-bradys-eight-super-bowls\/\" target=\"_self\">Tom Brady&#8217;s seven Super Bowl victories<\/a>?\u00a0 It is entirely too early to tell on that one as no matter how great the quarterback, this is a very tough task to win seven Super Bowls.<\/p>\n<p>Add to that, the Chiefs will likely be looking for some wide receivers to add this offseason as they may lose their top two.\u00a0 JuJu Smith-Schuster and Mecole Hardman are both free agents this offseason.\u00a0 Would they consider trying to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/03\/02\/deandre-hopkins-kansas-city-chiefs-frontrunners\/\" target=\"_self\">trade for DeAndre Hopkins<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/02\/14\/brandin-cooks-trade-destinations\/\" target=\"_self\">Brandin Cooks<\/a> to bolster their arsenal?\u00a0 Only time will tell if they re-sign either receiver or decide to look at trading\/free agency or the draft to replace them.\u00a0 The future continues to be bright for Chiefs fans as long as Patrick Mahomes is under center.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Patrick Breen &#8211; USA Today Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>patrick mahomes: It may only be six years into his NFL career (five as the starter), but Patrick Mahomes is doing things no one else has ever done.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4464,"featured_media":139295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7811,1576,331],"class_list":["post-139203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiefs","tag-chiefs-featured","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-tom-brady"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}