Does Super Bowl win, MVP cement Patrick Mahomes season as greatest ever?

He has the numbers, the awards and a Super Bowl championship. Kansas City Chiefs’ quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ 2022 campaign may be the best in NFL history.

Greatest ever or GOATs (Greatest Of All Time) are purely subjective, but the topic has certainly become more popular in recent years when it comes to the NFL. The 23-year career of quarterback Tom Brady has been the subject of such discussion and who’s to argue with his amazing resumé?

What about the greatest single-season performance by a quarterback in league history? Kansas City Chiefs Senior Reporter Matt McMullen made the case for Patrick Mahomes in 2022. His reasoning backed by his numbers makes a strong case for the six-year pro. However, let’s put some additional perspective on those statistics.

Did Patrick Mahomes just complete the NFL’s greatest individual season?

Mahomes led the NFL with 5,250 yards through the air in 2022. It’s the fourth-highest single-season total in league annals. There have been 15 instances of a player throwing for at least 5,000 yards in a season (six by former Saints QB Drew Brees).

Mahomes’ 2022 showing is not only the most passing yards by a player to win a Super Bowl the same season, but it also marks the first time that a player led pro football in passing yards and won a championship during the 57-year history of the Super Bowl.

It’s also worth noting that the star signal-caller completed 67.1 percent of his passes and threw more than three times as many TD passes (41) as interceptions (12). Mahomes did not lose a fumble while also finishing second on his club with 358 yards rushing and four touchdowns, as well as one two-point conversion.

He earned NFL MVP honors for the second time in five years (2018), and became the first player since 1999 (Rams’ QB Kurt Warner) to win a Super Bowl, win Super Bowl MVP, and be named the league’s Most Valuable Player in the same season.

On to the postseason. Andy Reid’s team needed all the offense it could muster in beating the Jaguars, Bengals and Eagles, The Chiefs won those games by seven, three and three points, respectively, and allowed at least 20 points in each outing.

In those contests, Mahomes completed 72.0 percent of his passes for 703 yards, seven touchdowns and zero interceptions. His lost fumble in the AFC Championship Game vs. the Bengals was the team’s lone turnover of the postseason.

Mahomes was named Super Bowl LVII MVP, throwing three touchdown passes in the game and rallying the club from a 24-14 halftime deficit. His 26-yard run with less than three minutes remaining was the Chiefs’ longest play from scrimmage vs. the Eagles and was part of the game-winning field goal drive.

That’s quite the 20-game resumé, complete with numerous accolades and accomplishments. Again, it’s all subjective. However, you would be hard-pressed to find such a productive and successful season from any NFL quarterback.