Patrick Mahomes notched the second Super Bowl victory of his young, but already accomplished career on Sunday, leading the Chiefs to a 38–35 victory over the Eagles in Super Bowl LVII. Given the star quarterback’s rise to the top of the league so early in his career, some observers already have begun to wonder if the 27-year-old might one day rival the legendary Tom Brady.
Brady, who recently announced his retirement from the NFL for good, has an unparalleled résumé with seven Super Bowl titles to his name, leaving Mahomes well behind him in the current day. However, it took Brady more than two decades to earn his status as football’s greatest, which begs the question: is Mahomes on a Brady-like trajectory through his first six seasons in the league?
Neither quarterback started as a rookie, making a comparison between Brady’s output from 2000 to ’05 and Mahomes’s from ’17 to ’22 possible. Brady went on to win a Super Bowl in his second year, while Mahomes hoisted the Lombardi Trophy for the first time in his third year.
