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Is Patrick Mahomes the Greatest Quarterback Ever?

He’s coming for Tom Brady’s legacy.
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Updated at 5:15 p.m. ET on February 17, 2024

This wasn’t supposed to be Patrick Mahomes’s year—that’s the scary part.

There were plenty of times this season when the Kansas City Chiefs and their star quarterback looked vulnerable, including a stretch when they lost four out of six games. Yet the end result was the same as it was last season: Mahomes won another Super Bowl, and notched another Super Bowl MVP, and now the rest of the football world is stuck with the gloomy reality that for the foreseeable future, any path to the Super Bowl means upending a generational player who is on course to

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