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It feels like since Patrick Mahomes was named full-time Kansas City Chiefs starting quarterback before his second NFL season in 2018 (he started one game as a rookie), he has never not played extremely well.
Mahomes won an MVP in his first season as starter, the Super Bowl MVP in his second, and is on pace to have his best season yet three weeks into the 2020 campaign. Oh, and, he earned a half-billion-dollar contract along the way.
Just try to recall a poor Mahomes performance —you'll probably come up empty.
In fact, FiveThirtyEight crunched the numbers on this after his five-touchdown gem against on “Monday Night Football” against the Baltimore Ravens, who entered the matchup with the league's best defense, per FiveThirtyEight's metric.
Amazingly, but not surprisingly, it turns out that Mahomes has literally never had a subpar game in his 39 career starts, including the postseason.
Per FiveThirtyEight, the Chiefs passer's “worst” performance came against in Kansas City's 19-13 loss to Indianapolis Colts in Week 5 of 2019—but his 52.6 Total QBR was still above-average. He passed for 321 yards with a touchdown and no interceptions.
The Total QBR metric is calibrated on a scale that sets league-average performances at 50.
FiveThirtyEight also notes that while Mahomes has just one game over 300 yards passing and two relatively subpar Total QBR scores (62.5, 61.7) in five contests against the Los Angeles Chargers, the Chiefs are 4-1 against their division rival with Mahomes under center.
So in addition to all the accolades, records, and highlights, you can officially add “never played badly” to Mahomes' resume.
However, Mahomes has had less success against the Chiefs' Week 5 opponent, the New England Patriots, than any other team. Mahomes has a 68.6 QBR average in three games against Bill Belichick's defense and has lost two of the three matchups.
