Patrick Mahomes
2024 as a 12 months began with questions over the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and their famous person quarterback, Patrick Mahomes.
A dismal Christmas Day defeat to their division rivals the Las Vegas Raiders was a fifth in eight video games, leaving the reigning champions teetering at 9-6 on the 12 months. Cue a run of 15 wins in a row, spanning the playoffs, taking in a fourth Tremendous Bowl go to – and third title – in 5 seasons, plus a 9-0 begin to their 2024 marketing campaign.
Mahomes missed out on a 3rd league MVP award to Lamar Jackson final 12 months, whereas he’s set to be ignored once more in 2024, with Saquon Barkley, Josh Allen and presumably Jackson once more favoured over Mahomes, who’s barely scraping into the league’s high 10 in each passing yards and touchdowns amongst quarterbacks this season.
BUT, it is a banged up Chiefs offense limping alongside with out their traditional array of offensive weapons to help Mahomes’ genius – and one he has nonetheless rallied to a ninth-straight division title, a tally surpassed by solely the nice New England Patriots dynasty (2009-2019) of the twenty first century.
Plus, Mahomes is at his finest within the clutch. Identical to when overcoming Kansas Metropolis’s shedding run on the finish of final 12 months. They went on a run in January and, down by 10 factors to the San Francisco 49ers within the Tremendous Bowl, he carried his staff on his shoulders to a second-straight championship.
Now, Mahomes and the Chiefs are concentrating on a ‘three-peat’, one thing by no means earlier than achieved in NFL historical past. Write him off at your peril.
