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With just six weeks left in the 2019 regular season, many are already looking at the teams around the league with an eye toward the future. Our friends over at Touchdown Wire recently pondered which of the 32 teams in the NFL have the best quarterback situation over the course of the next three to four years. To come up with rankings, they compiled a panel of experts (one former head coach, two former general managers and one current general manager) and asked them what they thought of each QB situation in the league.
The Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes ranked No. 1 with the best QB situation in the NFL. Here’s a look at what Touchdown Wire’s Pat Yasinskas and the experts had to say about the Chiefs and Mahomes:
The Chiefs currently have the best bargain in the league. Patrick Mahomes, last year’s MVP, is still on his rookie contract for one more year. In 2020, Mahomes will turn 25 and is scheduled to make just $735,000. But the Chiefs almost certainly will give him a long-term extension this offseason, and he could get a bump in pay to about $35 million a year. Is he worth it? “His mechanics make me shake my head sometimes. He throws across his body and back against the field a lot. But it works for him. He does things no one else can,” one of our panelists said. And it’s probably going to stay that way for at least the next decade.”
We all know that Mahomes is hypertalented and is going to get paid perhaps as early as this offseason. In his first season as a starter, he lit the league on fire with 5,000 passing yards and 50 touchdowns, walking away with an MVP award. Despite some injury trouble this season, he’s shown exciting growth.
The Chiefs’ QB situation of the future is certainly aided by the fact that Andy Reid can pull a QB out of retirement and coach him to a 1-1 record. So really, it doesn’t much matter who is behind Mahomes. Still, the future of the franchise is in his hands.