The Kansas City Chiefs have the best record in the AFC but are hardly playing their best football through 12 games.
While the defending Super Bowl champions are heading into their Week 14 matchup against the Los Angeles Chargers on a two-game winning streak, Kansas City is reeling after back-to-back one-score wins.
Two-time MVP Patrick Mahomes hasn’t quite found his stride during the Chiefs’ 2024 campaign and is still looking to put together a breakout performance.
Despite his struggles, the experts at Pro Football Network still have Mahomes in the No. 5 spot in their MVP race metrics, which favor PFN’s QB+ statistic as a key metric in determining the likely winner of the coveted award.
See what PFN had to say about Mahomes’ chances of winning the MVP award below:
“You can never fully count out Patrick Mahomes. The greatest quarterback in NFL history is leading the Kansas City Chiefs to the best start of his career in what is statistically his worst season.
Mahomes is completing 68.4% of his passes but has a career-low 4.4% touchdown rate and a career-worst 2.6% interception rate.
The reality is his numbers should have him nowhere close to the MVP conversation. The only reason Mahomes is here is because the Chiefs are 11-1, and the quarterback of the team with the best record is frequently in the race.
With that said, it’s hard to envision Mahomes winning MVP. He already has two, and his production lags far behind the guys ahead of him on this list, as well as a number of quarterbacks behind him.”
Though it is unlikely that Mahomes will be able to overcome the competition to earn his third MVP award, he will have an opportunity to re-write the script on his otherwise underwhelming season against the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 14.