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05-20-2020 01:39 PM |
The Athletic:No QB has ever performed as well as Patrick Mahomes to start his career.
No NFL quarterback has performed as well as Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes to start his career. This has become a widely accepted fact, yet his resume is still worth examining and learning from.
An MVP award his first season as a starter, with a championship and Super Bowl MVP award his second. His statistical dominance has reached the point of being almost comical. Look at how Mahomes’ first two seasons stack up to the careers of Dan Marino, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers.
In a list with the best statistical quarterbacks in league history, Mahomes leads the pack after two years as a starter, and it isn’t particularly close. The only statistic he doesn’t dominate is interception percentage, where Rodgers narrowly beats him out. Despite that, it’s worth noting that even as a young player, Mahomes has shown himself more adept at avoiding turnovers than some of the best to ever play the game, and that’s despite his reputation as a gunslinger and risk-taker.
What makes this statistical dominance even more impressive is the fact that Mahomes was less than 100 percent for nearly a quarter of the regular-season games in which he has played, as he was playing on a bad ankle from Week 1 through Week 7 then was recovering from a dislocated kneecap after returning to action in Week 10. So it isn’t as though Mahomes has simply benefited from good luck during his stretch
The rest of the article and all the film is on the Athletic here:
https://theathletic.com/1824004/2020...shared_article
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