Every single professional sports league in the world has had at least one athlete that has been deemed with the G.O.A.T (Greatest Of All Time) title. Sports betting fans around the world can agree that in basketball you have Michael Jordan, in hockey there’s Wayne Gretzky, golf has Tiger Woods and baseball has Babe Ruth. With football a small number of players since the beginning of the NFL have carried on with the GOAT legacy, making strong cases as to why they have been the top exponents of the game.
For the past 20 years Tom Brady has catapulted his case to being the best player who ever played a down but now apparently there’s a relatively new kid on the block making some gigantic strides towards taking the G.O.A.T. reign in the NFL. Yes, it’s Patrick Mahomes II we’re talking about and here’s why his case gets stronger and stronger as time goes by.
Since College The Signs Of Greatness Were There
Patrick Mahomes II’s college football career was just as amazing as his career in the pros thus far. While playing for a strong but not supreme football program, the Texas Tech Red Raiders, Mahomes put up some seriously baffling numbers. According to NCAA.com, Mahomes’ name appears in 22 different records. Yeah, that’s right 22 different records. Whenever anybody may need any proof of how good Mahomes was with Texas Tech there will always be two perfect references as to why he is regarded to as one of the best around. In his last game as a freshman for Texas Tech he managed to throw for 598 yards and six touchdowns, all while still losing the game against the Baylor Bears.
After that, in what could be considered one of the most electrifying football game in NCAA history, Mahomes put on an absolute show, recording the single game FBS record for passing yards with 734 yards against Baker Mayfield’s Oklahoma Sooners squad. Patrick and Baker combined for a ridiculous 1,279 passing yards in the game with Mahomes also setting the record for most plays in a game with 100 and total yards gained with 819. Those numbers are sometimes not even achieved by entire pro teams in a game, and this was done by an individual college football player.
Once He Hit The Pros It Was A Race To The Top
While the road to the top of the football glory hill is long and steep one could easily argue that Mahomes literally hit the ground running as soon as he got his first start. Mahomes took over the Kansas City starting job right after Alex Smith was traded to Washington in January 2018 and has not given up the spot ever since. It just took him five games, close to 20 touchdowns thrown and a left handed underhand throw that nearly brought down the internet, kind of the QB equivalent to that legendary OBJ catch against the Cowboys to show the world that Patrick Mahomes II had arrived.
His career ever since has only been a constant race to the top winning the NFL MVP trophy in his first year as a starter all while becoming the third qb ever to throw for 50 touchdowns in a season and the sixth to throw for 5,000 yards. Since then Mahomes has led the Chiefs to 3 AFC Championship games, only losing his first round against Brady’s Patriots and two Super Bowl games including a win last year game and again this season.
Will He Catch Up To Brady and Surpass Him? It Seems Like It
The comparisons between Mahomes and Tom Brady are inevitable. Tom Brady is regarded by almost all football analysts and fans as the best player to ever grace the gridiron but with time passing by and Brady nearing the end of his career it’s time to start looking to the horizon for the heir to the throne. A pivotal point that could prove that Mahomes is the rightful owner to the throne once Brady leaves is a win in this year’s Super Bowl, which so happens to be against Brady and the Buccaneers.
According to some of the top experts in the game if Mahomes wants to be able to dethrone Brady he will at least need three or four more Super Bowl rings, and while by judging on his playing skills it could be a given health will also be of the upmost importance. If Mahomes can stay healthy and span out a career as long and bountiful as Brady’s then we could easily be witnessing the rise of football’s future GOAT.
