48 Fun Facts About Patrick Mahomes

In which Texas city was Patrick Mahomes born?

Tyler, in East Texas, was home, but much of his childhood was spent in big-league clubhouses, following his father's career around six different teams.

Mahomes's father, Pat, spent 11 seasons in the major leagues playing which position?

Pitcher: Pat Mahomes threw for six clubs between 1992 and 2003, and his son grew up around those clubhouses before giving up his own baseball career for football.

Which MLB team drafted Mahomes in the 37th round in 2014?

Detroit Tigers spent the late pick knowing he was committed to Texas Tech football; he never signed, and he gave up baseball for good two years later.

Which NFL team did Mahomes grow up supporting?

Dallas Cowboys: he has called himself a die-hard Cowboys fan as a boy in Texas, and he beat his old favourites 19-9 the first time he started against them, in 2021.

Who was Mahomes's head coach at Texas Tech, later hired to lead the Arizona Cardinals?

Kliff Kingsbury had been Texas Tech's quarterback himself; he left the school with a losing record after 2018, yet within weeks Arizona hired him as an NFL head coach.

Mahomes and Travis Kelce joined a group of athletes investing in which Formula One team in 2023?

Alpine: the pair joined an investor group that also signed up golfer Rory McIlroy and boxer Anthony Joshua, in what the team called a strategic initiative built around athletes.

Which quarterback led Oklahoma in the 2016 shootout where Mahomes set the FBS total-offense record?

Baker Mayfield had played for Texas Tech himself three years earlier before transferring; his Oklahoma side won 66-59 even though Mahomes gained a record 819 yards on his own.

Which award, given to the nation's top college passer, did Mahomes win as a junior?

Sammy Baugh Trophy: he led the country with 5,052 passing yards that season, yet Texas Tech finished 5-7 and stayed home from the bowl games.

Which rival quarterback was Mahomes's partner in golf's televised challenge The Match in June 2022?

Josh Allen had lost an overtime playoff classic to Mahomes that January; by June the two were partners, losing by one hole to a pair of veteran quarterbacks.

Which quarterback was the only one drafted ahead of Mahomes in 2017?

Mitchell Trubisky went second overall to a team that traded up a spot to get him; within two years it was Mahomes who was the league's MVP.

Which team did the Chiefs trade with to move up and draft Mahomes?

Buffalo Bills: they banked an extra first-round pick for moving down 17 places, then used the following year's draft to take a quarterback of their own in the top ten.

Mahomes was the first quarterback the Chiefs took in the first round since which player in 1983?

Todd Blackledge went seventh overall in the famous 1983 quarterback class, ahead of future Hall of Famers Jim Kelly and Dan Marino.

Whom did Mahomes back up as a rookie in 2017?

Alex Smith led the NFL in passer rating that season with the rookie watching, then was traded to Washington so that Mahomes could take over.

Against which team did Mahomes make his first NFL start, in Week 17 of 2017?

Denver Broncos: pulled with a 24-10 lead, he was sent back in after Denver tied the game and drove 67 yards to a winning field goal as time expired.

Who caught Mahomes's first career touchdown pass, a 58-yarder in the 2018 opener?

Tyreek Hill had already returned a punt 91 yards for a touchdown less than two minutes into that game, and he added a third score in the fourth quarter.

Before Mahomes in 2018, which quarterback alone had a 5,000-yard, 50-touchdown season?

Peyton Manning did it in 2013; Mahomes matched him at 23, in his first season as a starter, and was voted the league's MVP for it.

The Chiefs' 54-51 loss to which team in 2018 was the first NFL game where a side scored 50 and lost?

Los Angeles Rams: Mahomes threw six touchdown passes but also turned the ball over five times, and linebacker Samson Ebukam took two of them back for touchdowns.

In February 2020, a 24-year-old Mahomes became the youngest quarterback to win which award?

Super Bowl MVP: he took it at 24 despite throwing two interceptions and trailing by ten points in the fourth quarter.

Which quarterback beat Mahomes in overtime of the AFC Championship Game that ended his 2018 MVP season?

Tom Brady won the overtime coin toss and marched 75 yards to the winning touchdown, so Mahomes never got the ball in the extra period.

Which injury did Mahomes suffer against Denver in Week 7 of 2019?

A dislocated kneecap: it happened on a routine quarterback sneak, yet scans showed no major damage and he was back after missing only two games.

Mahomes's ten-finger count after a 2019 touchdown against the Bears was widely read as a nod to what?

His draft position: Chicago had traded up to the second pick in 2017 and chosen another quarterback, leaving him to go eight picks later; Mahomes said afterwards he was just having fun.

Which team led the Chiefs 24-0 in a January 2020 playoff game and lost?

Houston Texans: the Chiefs answered with 41 straight points, 28 of them in the second quarter, the first team to win a playoff game by 20 after trailing by 20.

What was the name of the 3rd-and-15 play Mahomes asked for that turned Super Bowl LIV?

Jet Chip Wasp: during a replay review Mahomes asked his coordinator whether there was time to run it, and the 44-yard completion that followed began a 21-0 finish.

Whom did the Chiefs beat in Super Bowl LIV, their first championship in 50 years?

San Francisco 49ers led 20-10 with under nine minutes left, then gave up three touchdowns as Kansas City scored the game's last 21 points.

Mahomes's 2020 extension, worth up to $503 million, passed which baseball star's deal as the richest in North American sports?

Mike Trout had signed for a record $426.5 million 16 months earlier; unlike Trout's fully guaranteed money, much of Mahomes's total hung on guarantees that vested year by year.

Which team held the Chiefs without a touchdown in Super Bowl LV?

Tampa Bay Buccaneers: with both of Kansas City's starting tackles out injured, Mahomes spent the night running from the pass rush and lost 31-9, his first NFL defeat by double digits.

Whom did the Chiefs beat 38-35 in Super Bowl LVII?

Philadelphia Eagles led by 10 at halftime, just after Mahomes re-injured his sprained ankle; he still led touchdown drives on the first three possessions of the second half.

Who caught the game-winning overtime touchdown from Mahomes in Super Bowl LVIII?

Mecole Hardman had started that season with the Jets before being traded back to Kansas City in October; the 3-yard catch was his only touchdown of the year.

The Chiefs' 2023-24 repeat was the NFL's first since which team did it nineteen years earlier?

New England Patriots won back-to-back Super Bowls in 2004 and 2005; no champion had ever won three straight, and the Chiefs' bid for it ended one win short a year later.

Who was named MVP of Super Bowl LIX, when the Eagles sacked Mahomes a career-high six times?

Jalen Hurts took the award in a 40-22 win, but the defence set it up: Philadelphia sacked Mahomes six times without sending a single blitz.

Whom did Mahomes pass in September 2024 to become the Chiefs' all-time passing yards leader?

Len Dawson needed 14 seasons to set the mark; Mahomes passed it in the first half of the 2024 opener, at the start of his seventh year as the starter.

Mahomes was fined $50,000 in 2023 for criticising officials over which player's offside penalty against the Bills?

Kadarius Toney lined up offside, wiping out a go-ahead touchdown he had scored after Travis Kelce flipped him a cross-field lateral; the Chiefs lost 20-17.

What injury ended Mahomes's 2025 season in a December loss to the Chargers?

A torn ACL: he went down with under two minutes left in a 16-13 defeat that also knocked the Chiefs out of the playoffs for the first time since 2014.

Where did Mahomes propose to Brittany Matthews in September 2020?

A suite at Arrowhead Stadium: he proposed on the day he collected his Super Bowl ring, so each of them was given a ring that day.

Which women's soccer team is Brittany Mahomes a co-owner of?

Kansas City Current: Brittany, who had played professionally in Iceland, has been a part-owner since the club joined the league in 2021, and her husband bought in two years later.

Which condiment brand signed Mahomes to an endorsement deal in 2018?

Hunt's signed him weeks after his taste for ketchup on steak made the news; despite the name, the brand belongs to Conagra, not the Hunt family that owns the Chiefs.

Which MLB team's ownership group did Mahomes join in 2020?

Kansas City Royals: three weeks after signing his record contract he bought into the club, saying it let him deepen his roots in the city.

Which fast-food chain did Mahomes invest in bringing to Missouri and Kansas?

Whataburger, the Texas chain he counts among his favourite meals, came north through his group KMO Burgers, which opened one restaurant less than three miles from the Chiefs' stadium.

What is the name of the steakhouse Mahomes opened with Travis Kelce in 2025?

1587 Prime joins his No. 15 to Travis Kelce's No. 87; the steakhouse opened inside a Loews hotel in Kansas City.

Alongside which two quarterbacks was Mahomes featured in the 2023 Netflix series Quarterback?

Kirk Cousins and Marcus Mariota were filmed with him through the 2022 season, the first time the NFL let quarterbacks wear a microphone in every game; Mahomes's year ended in a title.

What is Mahomes's younger brother Jackson known for?

Being a social media influencer: Jackson built his following on TikTok, while it is a half-brother, Graham Walker, who went on to play college football.

Which former Minnesota Twins teammate of his father is Mahomes's godfather?

LaTroy Hawkins advised his godson when baseball's draft came calling, telling him a quarterback had to be entirely invested in football; Mahomes took him at his word.

Which Texas high school did Mahomes attend, playing football, baseball and basketball?

Whitehouse High: he was MaxPreps' national Male Athlete of the Year as a senior, yet most recruiting services rated the future MVP only a three-star quarterback prospect.

Whom did Mahomes back up as a freshman at Texas Tech before his first action against Oklahoma State?

Davis Webb hurt his shoulder in that game and was sidelined again later, letting the freshman in; he lost the job, transferred to California and was drafted the same spring as Mahomes.

Mahomes was the first Chiefs player on a Madden cover; which quarterback fronted the next year's edition?

Lamar Jackson fronted Madden NFL 21; a year later Mahomes was back on the Madden NFL 22 cover, the first shared by two players in more than a decade.

What is the name of the children's charity Mahomes launched in April 2019?

15 and the Mahomies Foundation was set up two months after his first MVP award; its programmes ask children to read or volunteer in blocks of 15.

Which sportswear brand released Mahomes's first signature shoe, the Mahomes 1 Impact FLX, in 2021?

Adidas put the shoe on sale on August 23, 2021; announcing it, Mahomes said he had dreamed of having his own shoe since he was a little kid.

What nickname did Andy Reid tell Mahomes to be before the Chiefs' 42-36 playoff win over the Bills?

The Grim Reaper: 'When it's grim, be the Grim Reaper,' the coach told him with 13 seconds left; Mahomes then drove the Chiefs to a tying field goal and won the game in overtime.