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Patrick Mahomes News: Quarterback Completes 2024 Super Bowl Comeback with Third MVP Award
Patrick Mahomes still needs four more Super Bowl wins to tie Tom Brady’s record of seven. But the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback is a little closer to the NFL great in one aspect. Mahomes was named the MVP of Super Bowl LVIII on February 11 after throwing for 333 yards and tossing the winning touchdown to Mecole Hardman in overtime, completing a 25-22 comeback win over the San Francisco 49ers.
With his third MVP honor—Mahomes also earned the title in Kansas City’s 2020 and 2023 Bowl wins—the 28-year-old QB is one of only three players to accomplish the feat. Joe Montana and Brady, with five total, are the others. The Chiefs are the first team to repeat as Super Bowl champions since, you guessed it, the Patriots with Brady in 2003 and 2004.
Mahomes acknowledged the Brady comparisons and said they help fuel his ambitions. “It’s always going to be tough because Brady beat me in the Super Bowl [in 2021]. That’s one thing he’ll always have on my head,” Mahomes told NFL Network after the game Sunday. “It gives me something to strive for every single day is chasing greatness, and whenever I’m tired, I might not want to work out, I know that I have to do it to be in these moments like this... It does give me that added motivation to continue to be great every single day.”
Who Is Patrick Mahomes?
Football player Patrick Mahomes has won three Super Bowls as quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs, earning the game’s MVP award in each instance. The son of former MLB pitcher Pat Mahomes Sr., Patrick played baseball in college and almost went pro. But his success on the football field at Texas Tech University changed his plans. Mahomes was drafted into the NFL in 2017 as the 10th overall pick and has since won two league MVP awards. Currently, he is the second-highest-paid player in the NFL.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Patrick Lavon Mahomes II
BORN: September 17, 1995
BIRTHPLACE: Tyler, Texas
SPOUSE: Brittany Mahomes (2022-present)
CHILDREN: Sterling and Patrick
PARENTS: Pat Mahomes Sr. and Randi Mahomes
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Virgo
Parents, Siblings, and Early Life
Patrick Lavon Mahomes II was born September 17, 1995, in Tyler, Texas.
His parents are former MLB pitcher Patrick “Pat” Mahomes Sr., who played professionally for 11 years, and event planner Randi Martin Mahomes. The younger Mahomes, who is biracial, has said he’s both “proud to be Black” and “proud to have a white mom, too.” Pat and Randi are now divorced, though they remain “friendly.”
Mahomes has one brother, Jackson, and three half-siblings: sisters Mia and Zoe, along with brother Graham. Today, Jackson is a social media star with over 1.1 million followers on TikTok and is known for posting videos from many of Patrick’s games. However, he is also a controversial figure. Most notably, he was arrested in May 2023 and charged with three counts of aggravated sexual battery and a fourth charge of misdemeanor battery stemming from an incident at a restaurant in Overland Park, Kansas, in February 2023. The three felony charges were dropped in January 2024, while Jackson has pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor.
Before either Mahomes brother found fame, they followed their father’s star. With Pat playing for several MLB teams throughout his career, the family often lived in apartments and hotel rooms in cities where he played. Patrick was athletically gifted like his father. He excelled at baseball and also played football.
By his junior year, Mahomes was starting at quarterback at Whitehouse High School in Whitehouse, Texas. In his senior year, he threw for 4,600 yards, 50 touchdowns, and only four interceptions, but college coaches still thought his future was in baseball.
College
After high school, the Detroit Tigers drafted Mahomes in the 37th round. Declining the offer, Mahomes enrolled at Texas Tech University in 2014 and continued to play baseball, assuming he’d enter the MLB draft again.
After success as a starter on the football team during his sophomore season, however, he shifted focus and quit playing baseball. Mahomes eventually decided to forego his senior year at Texas Tech to enter the NFL draft. Even so, he ended his college career ranking third in passing yards, touchdown passes, attempts, and completions. He also ranked as the school’s second all-time leader among QBs with 22 rushing touchdowns.
NFL Career: Kansas City Chiefs
The Kansas City Chiefs drafted Mahomes as the 10th overall pick in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft. Mahomes made his professional football debut and first start against the Denver Broncos that December.
In 2018, he became just the second quarterback in NFL history to throw for 50 touchdowns and 5,000 passing yards in a single season and was named the NFL’s MVP. Leading the team to a 12-4 record, Mahomes was the first Chiefs player to win a league MVP award.
In February 2020, Mahomes played in his first Super Bowl, ultimately winning the championship over the San Francisco 49ers with a final score of 31-20. He was named the Super Bowl LIV MVP and, later that year, finalized a 10-year contract extension—then the most lucrative in league history—to ensure he would remain in Kansas City long-term.
Mahomes and the Chiefs earned a spot in the NFL championship for a second year running in 2021. However, they lost Super Bowl LV to Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 31-9.
After missing out on a third consecutive Super Bowl berth, Mahomes returned in February 2023. The Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 to secure the quarterback’s second Super Bowl victory and third for the franchise. Mahomes was awarded the Super Bowl MVP for the second time.
In the 2023 regular season, Mahomes threw for 4,183 yards and 27 touchdowns. Leading the Chiefs to playoff wins over the Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, and Baltimore Ravens, the quarterback sent the team to its fourth Super Bowl in five years. Mahomes led Kansas City to a second-half comeback and threw the winning touchdown pass in overtime for a 25-22 victory over the 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII. He was again named the game’s MVP.
Social Justice Activism
In June 2020, Mahomes was one of several pro athletes to appear in a viral Black Lives Matter video that called out police brutality. Also in the video were fellow NFL players Saquon Barkley, DeAndre Hopkins, Odell Beckham Jr., Ezekiel Elliott, and Deshaun Watson.
“I understand my platform,” he told GQ in an August 2020 profile. “I’m in the middle of negotiating my next contract, to hopefully be a Kansas City Chief for a long time, but I still thought this was important enough, and this was something that had to be said. It wasn’t something I could sit back on and worry about my next contract because I needed to use my platform to help. Sometimes it’s not about money. It’s not about fame. It’s about doing what’s right.”
Soon afterward, he joined NBA star LeBron James’ More than a Vote organization that focuses on voter registration and anti–voting suppression efforts. In a July 2020 tweet, Mahomes encouraged his more than 1.7 million Twitter followers to send him a screenshot of their registration confirmation.
That fall, his 15 and the Mahomies Foundation split the cost of new voting machines in Kansas City with the Chiefs ahead of the 2020 general election. As a result of his activism, Sports Illustrated named Mahomes a 2020 Sportsperson of the Year.
Wife and Kids
Mahomes married his high school sweetheart, Brittany Mahomes nee Matthews, in March 2022. The couple have two children. Their daughter, Sterling, was born in February 2021, and their son, Patrick who’s known as “Bronze,” arrived in November 2022.
Patrick and Brittany began dating in 2012 during his sophomore year of high school. The pair stayed together while attending separate colleges, with Patrick attending Texas Tech and Brittany playing soccer for the University of Texas.
On the same day he received his Super Bowl LIV Champion ring in September 2020, Patrick proposed to Brittany at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. Weeks later, the couple announced that she was pregnant with their first child.
Star of Quarterback
Mahomes was one of three NFL quarterbacks—along with Marcus Mariota and Kirk Cousins—featured in the docuseries Quarterback, which premiered on Netflix in July 2023.
With NFL great Peyton Manning as an executive producer, the series followed Mahomes throughout the 2022 NFL season and gave viewers a behind-the-scenes look at his practice habits and life away from the field with his wife, Brittany, and their family. “Everybody sees the game days, but they don’t see the day-to-day grind,” Mahomes said. “They don’t see how you have to manage playing football and being a dad and being a husband.”
Net Worth
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Mahomes’ total value is around $70 million. Much of this is because of his lucrative playing contract. In 2020, the quarterback agreed to a 10-year extension with the Chiefs worth $450 million. The deal was restructured in 2023 to guarantee him $210.6 million through the ensuing four seasons.
Mahomes has also purchased a stake in the Kansas City Royals MLB franchise and is part of the ownership group for the Sporting KC and Kansas City Current professional soccer teams.
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