Patrick Mahomes is just 28 years old and is toward the beginning of his career. But this week, he has a chance to reach a milestone few quarterbacks in the league ever reach.
If Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are able to beat the Buffalo Bills this weekend, Mahomes will earn his 13th playoff victory. As Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk points out, that would put him in some pretty elite company already.
“Only seven quarterbacks in NFL history have 13 or more playoff wins, and if Mahomes gets to 13, he’ll tie Brett Favre and Ben Roethlisberger, each of whom retired with 13 postseason wins, as the eighth member of that group,” Smith wrote.
“A win on Sunday would give Mahomes the opportunity to win his 14th postseason game in the AFC Championship Game. That would move him into a tie with Terry Bradshaw, John Elway and Peyton Manning for the third-most postseason wins in NFL history.”
As Smith points out, if Mahomes were to win the Super Bowl, that would give him 15 postseason wins which would be good third place all-time all to himself just behind Joe Montana, who retired with 16 playoff wins.
Obviously, this is pretty insane considering how early it still is in his NFL career, and the NFL world had a lot to say about it on social media with many predicting that it’s not going to happen for Mahomes this year.
https://twitter.com/trichardpdx/status/1748319585164476679?s=20
https://twitter.com/olaffubny/status/1748300975519985765?s=20
Not this year. Da Bills are going to be playing in the AFC Championship game against those Ravens.
— Andy A. Marcs (@Pasqual50186408) January 19, 2024
https://twitter.com/USGA1894/status/1748290975313834091?s=20
Mahomes is certainly chasing history, but he still has a long way to go before passing Tom Brady, who retired with 35 postseason victories.
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