{"id":183832,"date":"2024-08-03T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=183832"},"modified":"2024-08-02T23:35:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T03:35:36","slug":"chiefs-mahomes-top-100-list-jones-kelce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/08\/03\/chiefs-mahomes-top-100-list-jones-kelce\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Goes Crazy Over Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes&#8217; Top 100 Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL players voted Kansas City Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes the fourth-best player in the league.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 player in 2023, Mahomes is coming off winning the first back-to-back Super Bowls in 20 years. However, he fell three spots in this year\u2019s player-based vote, which stirred up several prominent media members.<\/p>\n<h2>Chiefs: Media Rips Patrick Mahomes&#8217; Ranking in Top 100 Players List<\/h2>\n<h3>Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes Voted 4th-Best Player<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care who\u2019s making the list. If Patrick Mahomes isn\u2019t No. 1, the list is [poop emoji],\u201d Pro Football Talk posted on X on August 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c4 or fore as in get out the F\u2019in way?\u201d The Athletic\u2019s Dianna Russini posted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C3HBxmfHMR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/C3HBxmfHMR<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DHOtrJxjgD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/DHOtrJxjgD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mina Kimes (@minakimes) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/minakimes\/status\/1819534838074167717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cComplete nonsense,\u201d ESPN\u2019s Field Yates posted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 3 players ahead of Mahomes on this list (Tyreek [Hill], Lamar [Jackson], CMC [Christian McCaffrey]) were all beaten by him in this past postseason alone,\u201d The 33rd Team\u2019s social media team posted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis almost feels like something an aggregation account would do to farm engagement,\u201d Sports Illustrated\u2019s Albert Breer posted. \u201c(Was @NFL hacked?).\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UkDgqM7Ne5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/UkDgqM7Ne5<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SwzCyYnS7i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/SwzCyYnS7i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BucciOT.Com (@Buccigross) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Buccigross\/status\/1819550653313650753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mahomes completed a career-high 67.2% of his passes in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He also posted a career-low 13.3% bad throw rate, per Pro Football Reference. However, his 4,183 yards and 27 touchdowns to 14 interceptions were all steps back from his 2022 line (5,250\/41\/12). The Chiefs also won four fewer games in 2024 than they did in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Mahomes and the Chiefs beat Hill\u2019s Miami Dolphins in the Wildcard round. They toppled Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship game.<\/p>\n<p>McCaffrey and the San Francisco 49ers fell in the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI keep trying to tell y\u2019all. Stop motivating him,\u201d ESPN\u2019s Matt Miller posted.<\/p>\n<h3>Tyreek Hill Reacts to No. 1 Ranking<\/h3>\n<p>Hill is the first receiver in NFL history to land the No. 1 spot. He said he expected plenty of responses to the vote. He was correct.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Go cry on set Tomorrow \ud83d\ude02 <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1E3t0cruwK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/1E3t0cruwK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ty Hill (@cheetah) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cheetah\/status\/1819543222160375866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t block your blessing hating on me,\u201d Hill posted.<\/p>\n<p>Hill ranked seventh on the list in 2023. He went on to lead the NFL with a career-high 1,799 yards \u2013 the seventh-most in a single season \u2013 also leading the way with 13 receiving touchdowns on 119 receptions. Three active players have posted a better mark in their careers.<\/p>\n<p>They are Cooper Kupp of the Los Angeles Rams, free agent Julio Jones, and Justin Jefferson of the Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson is the highest-paid receiver in the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTyreek Hill comes in at No. 1 on NFL Network&#8217;s list of the top 100 players in the league, as determined by players,\u201d Florio captioned a post for a story on Hill\u2019s ranking. \u201cThat won&#8217;t make Hill any less determined to get an adjustment to his contract.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs Set Bar in NFL Top 100 List<\/h3>\n<p>While Mahomes\u2019 ranking fell and sparked some controversy, the Chiefs were still the standard-bearers on the annual list.<\/p>\n<p>With Chris Jones checking in at No. 6 and Travis Kelce at No. 9, the Chiefs were the only team to boast three players in the top 100 list. Kelce dropped four slots from No. 5 in 2023. Jones ranked No. 10 in the 2023 iteration.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs were the only team with three players in the top 10 in 2023 as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media members took the NFL Top 100 Players list to task after Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes came in fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2879,"featured_media":183833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[7811,298,1576,339,297],"class_list":["post-183832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiefs","tag-chiefs-featured","tag-chris-jones","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-travis-kelce","tag-tyreek-hill"],"modified_by":"Josh Buckhalter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183832","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\/2879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}