Top five Kansas City Chiefs quarterbacks in team history

1. Patrick Mahomes

Was this spot ever really in doubt? There can only be one number one, and that honor falls to Patrick Mahomes. Sure, Dawson was an incredible winner and arguably accomplished more over the duration of his career than Patrick Mahomes has accomplished to this point. That’s the point, though: Mahomes career is just beginning.

To date, Mahomes has won 28 of the 36 games that he has started, including both the regular season and playoffs. He’s joined Peyton Manning and Tom Brady as the only quarterbacks to ever throw for 50 or more touchdowns in a single season. He’s one of only eight quarterbacks to throw for 5,000 yards in a single season, and only he and Peyton Manning have achieved the preceding two feats in the same year.

He helmed the team to its first home AFC Championship game in 2018, only his second year in the pros and his first as a starter, and then repeated that feat in 2019. He led three straight double-digit comebacks for victory in the 2019 NFL Playoffs, the first time that had ever happened in the history of the NFL. He led the Chiefs to their first Super Bowl victory in 50 seasons, on the back of heroics both physical and mental.

We haven’t even discussed the fact that he’s won an NFL MVP, which makes him the youngest player to have ever won a regular season MVP award, the Super Bowl, and the Super Bowl MVP. Honestly, the list goes on and on.

While Dawson has time on Mahomes in terms of overall accomplishments, the potential of Mahomes career is like nothing we’ve ever seen. If he continues on this trajectory he will become the greatest that ever stepped on the gridiron. Lucky for Chiefs Kingdom, we get to be around for all of it. Sit back and enjoy.