The growing list of career milestones for Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes is tough to keep up with. In his first three seasons as a professional, he squashed age-old records and out-paced all-time greats. As he enters his fourth season in the NFL, Mahomes is rapidly approaching two more accolades.
After the Chiefs’ Week 1 win over the Houston Texans, Mahomes has 9,623 career passing yards in just 32 career games played. He needs to pass for 377 yards in Week 2 against the Los Angeles Chargers to become the fastest player to 10,000 career passing yards.
Hall of Fame QB Kurt Warner holds the current record, reaching 10,000 career passing yards in 36 games played. It’s worth noting that Mahomes has never thrown for more than 256 passing yards against the Chargers, so he might have to wait until Week 3 to hold this record.
Last season, Mahomes became the fastest player in NFL history to reach 70 career touchdown passes. Now, with a three-touchdown game against the Chargers in Week 2, he can reach another touchdown-related milestone.
Mahomes passed for three touchdowns in the teams’ season-opening win over the Texans and it became his 16th career game to do so. He’s currently tied with former Colts QB Peyton Manning and Cowboys QB Dak Prescott for the most-such games through the first four seasons of a player’s career. Mahomes needs 12 more three-touchdown performances in order to surpass former Dolphins QB Dan Marino, who holds the record with 27 three-touchdown performances in his first four seasons.
That last one might be a bit of a stretch for Mahomes as he only had five such games last season, but he can’t have every record. To have his name stamped among Hall of Famers in the NFL record books is recognition enough.
