Patrick Mahomes can’t believe his ESPN college football quarterback ranking
By John Buhler
Patrick Mahomes knows ESPN slighted him in their college quarterback rankings of the 2000s.
Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback in the NFL these days, but apparently, he was not even a top-50 quarterback during his college days at Texas Tech University.
ESPN released its top 60 quarterbacks since 2000 on Friday morning. While Mahomes was nowhere near the star player he is with the Kansas City Chiefs while he was with the Texas Tech Red Raiders, ESPN ranked him. . .54th. Mahomes had a good laugh at his ranking after ESPN’s Matt Miller pointed it out to him.
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Patrick Mahomes is proof that people can grow up a lot since college
Mahomes threw the ball a ton for a middling Texas Tech team under former head coach Kliff Kingsbury. A combination of sloppy footwork and playing in an Air Raid offense for a borderline bowl-eligible team clearly knocked Mahomes down a peg in these rankings. However, he still went No. 10 in the 2017 NFL Draft. Four years later, he is so on a Pro Football Hall of Fame trajectory.
Even if he was the second quarterback taken in the 2017 NFL Draft, Mahomes still should have been the second quarterback off the board. However, the Chicago Bears made a massive mistaking going with a worse ACC quarterback in Mitchell Trubisky over Deshaun Watson. Trubisky went No. 2 to Chicago, while Watson fell to the Houston Texans at No. 12 on that Thursday night.
While he cannot be near No. 1, Mahomes was way better than the 54th best college quarterback of the 2000’s.
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