Patrick Mahomes was born in Tyler situated in Texas on 17 September 1995. He is a famous footballer quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He is the son of Pat Mahomes who is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. At the start, he played college football and baseball at Texas Tech. Following his college, he left baseball and started focusing solely on football.
When he was during his junior years, he led all NCAA Division I FBS players in different or many categories including 5052 passing yards and 53 total touchdowns. In the 2017 NFL Draft, he was selected 10th overall by the Kansas City Chiefs.
He joined Whitehouse High School in Whitehouse situated in Texas. He started playing football, baseball, and basketball. He believes that training in pitching and playing basketball helps in improving his quarterback skills. As a senior In football, he had a total of 4,619 passing yards, 50 passing touchdowns, 948 rushing yards, and 15 rushing touchdowns. In baseball, in his senior year, he threw a no-hitter with 16 strikeouts in a game. He was then named as the Maxpreps Male Athlete of the Year for 2013–2014.
Mahomes was rated as a three-star football recruit and was also ranked as the 12th-best dual-threat quarterback in his class. He received many offers from Texas Tech, Rice, and Houston. He devoted to Texas Tech University.
Career Points of Patrick Mahomes:
Mahomes passed his season as a rookie as the backup to Alex Smith. In 2018, he was named the starter after the Chiefs traded Smith to the Washington Redskins. In that season, Mahomes threw around 5,097 yards, 50 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions. He made history while throwing for over 5,000 yards in a single season in both colleges and in the NFL.
In the 2019 season, Mahomes was the captain of the Chiefs to Super Bowl LIV and their first Super Bowl appearance in 50 years and there they defeated the San Francisco 49ers. Mahomes was honoured and awarded the Super Bowl MVP for his extraordinary performance, he is the second black quarterback and also the youngest overall to do so.
He is also listed as the third African American quarterback to win a Super Bowl. In 2020, Mahomes signed a 10-year contract worth $477 million and another $26 million in bonuses and receive a total of $503 million and make it the second-largest known contract in the history of the sport. One year later after signing his contract, he lead the Chiefs to their second consecutive Super Bowl, but in that, the team lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Personal Life of Patrick Mahomes:
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Mahomes proposed to Brittany Matthews on 1 September 2020, she is his high school love. Matthews had a large professional career in soccer, she played for UMF Afturelding and later become a certified trainer. She is also the co-owner of a women’s professional soccer team named Kansas City Current.
The couple announced that they are expecting a girl child together. And their first child was born on 20 February 2021. The couple get married on 12 March 2022 in Hawaii. Later, the couple announced that they are expecting their second child. And their son was born on 28 November 2022.
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