Before Patrick Mahomes was a Super Bowl champion and a Super Bowl MVP — and long before he and Kansas City topped the Cincinnati Bengals to advance to the 2023 Super Bowl — he was playing quarterback for Texas Tech.
(He was also playing baseball for the Red Raiders but ultimately gave it up to focus on football.)
With Texas Tech’s football team from 2014 through the 2016 season, Mahomes set or tied several records, including tying the record for single-game passing yards and setting the record for single-game total yards gained, throwing for 734 yards and accounting for 819 total in a 66-59 loss to Oklahoma in 2016.
In Mahomes’ final season with the Red Raiders, he threw for 5,052 yards, 41 touchdowns and 10 interceptions and had a 65.7 completion percentage. But Texas Tech wasn’t having the hottest season and finished with a 5-7 record — after going 4-8 and 7-6 in his first two seasons, respectively — before Mahomes declared for the draft.
Enter Kansas City, which drafted Mahomes in the first round at No. 10 overall in the 2017 NFL Draft.