10 NFL predictions guaranteed to come true

7. Patrick Mahomes will top his 2018 season, and win his second NFL MVP Award

It feels like a huge gamble asserting that a player will repeat one of the three greatest season from a quarterback in the history of the NFL, but that’s exactly what we’re predicting when it comes to Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl LIV MVP Patrick Mahomes, entering his third year as a starter in the NFL.

Patrick Mahomes is the best player in the NFL, and that point is not really even close at this point. No other player in the history of the league has ever won a league MVP and a Super Bowl MVP within their first two years of starting in the league. Oh, and he also won a Lombardi Trophy in the process.

In 2018, his first as a starter, Mahomes lit the league on fire en route to becoming only the third quarterback ever with over 50 touchdowns and over 5,000 yards passing in a single season. All he would do that year is bring his team within one defensive offsides penalty late in the game from reaching the Super Bowl for the first time since 1970.

In 2019, despite struggling through leg injuries early in the year and ultimately missing games due to a dislocated knee cap, Mahomes was a more efficient quarterback than the season before. He increased his completion percentage, decreased his interception rate (by more than 50 percent), and ran the ball fewer times for more yards per carry (by more than half a yard). Looking at the raw numbers you’d never know it, but Mahomes was better in 2019 en route to the Chiefs’ first Super Bowl title in 60 years.

Here is the scariest part — the 2020 team will be the best team that Mahomes has ever played with. Not only does the team return every offensive starter from a season ago (they’ll replace Super Bowl starter Stefan Wisniewski at left guard with last season’s Week 1 starter who missed most of the season due to injury, Martinas Rankin), but they also add perhaps the scariest weapon in the entire 2020 Draft, Clyde Edwards-Helaire.

If you thought Mahomes was electric in 2018 and unstoppably efficient in 2019 — you haven’t seen anything yet. He’ll repeat in 2020 as the NFL MVP, and the voting will not be close.