Patrick Mahomes has greater than sufficient bulletin board materials.
It is arduous to say the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs celebrity is not the very best participant within the NFL with a straight face.
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Are there a handful of contemporaries which have a case? Certain.
In any given season, Mahomes is at worst the second – or third – finest participant within the league, however such are his requirements that the smallest trace of something apart from brilliance trigger a stir.
Not that anybody ever doubts him, actually.
Ask your self who you’d need with the ball of their arms to win you a soccer sport? To win you a Tremendous Bowl? How about three of them?
The reply is quantity 15 in Kansas Metropolis.
But, coming off back-to-back Tremendous Bowl victories, heading into the 2024 season, Mahomes was doubted by his very contemporaries.
Within the NFL’s annual High 100 Gamers checklist, voted on by the gamers themselves, Mahomes shockingly got here in at quantity 4.
What was extra surprising had been the names listed above him, particularly at quantity three and primary.
Forward of him had been San Francisco 49ers working again Christian McCaffrey at No. 3, Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson at No. 2, and former teammate and present Miami Dolphins broad receiver Tyreek Hill at No. 1.
What do all three of these guys have in frequent?
Mahomes beat all of them within the postseason on his strategy to his third ring whereas the checklist was being crafted and voted on.
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The checklist for the High 100 Gamers of 2024 is slowly being launched by way of the canine days of summer season and it is going to be attention-grabbing to see the place Mahomes comes on this time round.
“It’s what it’s,” Mahomes advised reporters again in August 2024.
The Chiefs star had beated Hill within the AFC wild-card spherical, Jackson within the AFC Championship and McCaffrey in OT in Tremendous Bowl LVII.
There is not any query who acquired the final chuckle, and whereas all three gamers above him had excellent years, Jackson was the league MVP in any case, the checklist nonetheless seemed silly then and much more so now.
Mahomes led the Chiefs again to their third straight Tremendous Bowl look, seeking to develop into the primary crew in NFL historical past to three-peat.
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Nevertheless, that wasn’t meant to be, because the Philadelphia Eagles put an finish to Kansas Metropolis’s hopes, thrashing them in Tremendous Bowl LIX 40-22.
If successful back-to-back Tremendous Bowls solely will get you to No. 4, the place does shedding the large sport place you?
Mahomes has been ranked No. 1 on the checklist previously, each in 2021 and 2023, so occupying the highest spot is nothing new.
And it’s truthful to have a look at the previous few common seasons that the Chiefs franchise quarterback has had, and never routinely simply place him at No. 1.
Jackson, together with reigning MVP Josh Allen, have had higher common seasons in recent times than Mahomes. It simply turns into foolish when he’s as little as No. 4 contemplating the very fact he routinely beats the blokes forward of him when it issues, within the playoffs.
A warning to the NFL, preserve rating Mahomes low at your individual peril, as he has confirmed time and time once more, betting in opposition to 15 in Kansas Metropolis is normally a idiot’s errand.
We’ll see the place he ranks forward of 2025 shortly.
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