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Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes becomes fastest NFL player to 10,000 career passing yards

Mahomes has stamped his name on yet another piece of NFL history.

Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes has added yet another achievement to his ever-growing list of career accolades. Back in November of 2019, he became the fastest player to reach 8,000 career passing yards and 65 career touchdowns. This time he’s passed two Hall of Fame quarterbacks in another pace, stamping his name in the NFL history books.

As if a “Monday Night Football” contest between the reigning Super Bowl MVP and the league MVP wasn’t exciting enough, Mahomes had to go and make some NFL history. Throwing for just 75 yards against the Baltimore Ravens on Monday, Mahomes has become the fastest player in NFL history to reach 10,000 career passing yards.

Week 3 of the 2020 NFL season marks the 34th career game for Mahomes, dating back to when he received his first start back in the final week of the 2017 NFL season. Mahomes reached 10,000 yards a whole two games quicker than the previous record-holder, St. Louis Rams HOF QB Kurt Warner. Mahomes also passes others in the top five, such as Matthew Stafford (37), Marc Bulger (38), Andrew Luck (38), and Dan Marino (38).

This is going to be a tough record for others to beat in the coming years. Mahomes has averaged just over 300 passing yards per game in the first two seasons of his career. He 318.6 passing yards per game in 2018 is good for the No. 12 performance in NFL history. This type of production at this pace isn’t easily achieved, even with the NFL’s shift toward pass-heavy offenses.

The next career record Mahomes will have his eye on is the passing touchdown record. He needs just 19 touchdowns within the next 10 games to reach 100 career touchdown passes. The current record-holder is Marino, who hit the 100 passing touchdown mark in 44 career games.

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Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes approaches two career milestones ahead of Week 2

Mahomes can soon become the quickest player to 10,000 career passing yards and hit yet another passing touchdown milestone.

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.

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