Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes captured his second Super Bowl title this past season, quickly cementing himself among the great signal callers in NFL history.
This upcoming season will be Mahomes’s seventh as a professional, but with two Super Bowl rings already in tow, many fans of the game are wondering just how many he will rack up by the time it’s all said and done.
Mahomes turns just 28 years old in September, and should have plenty of elite football left in front of him. But that doesn’t mean he believes he’s among the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game just yet.
However, like any other fan of the game, Mahomes has his list of the top five quarterbacks of all time.
“Yeah, I mean you got to say Tom [Brady]‘s one,” Mahomes told Ben Felderstein of Complex. “But if you talk about the legends of the game, Tom, Peyton Manning, obviously Aaron Rodgers, Joe Montana and then it gets down to Dan Marino or John Elway to round off your top five. But I mean there’s some great quarterbacks that played this game man, I’m just trying to learn from them because even though the game has progressed, there’s still stuff in the past that helps you become a better quarterback.”
When asked by Felderstein if there was a number of Super Bowl titles that Mahomes had in mind, his answer was quite simple.
“As many as possible,” he said. “I mean, they’re so hard to win. Everybody’s going to say you want to chase Brady and try to get to eight or whatever. I don’t know if I’m going to play until I’m 45, so I’m going to try. My kids will be already out of high school if I play that long, so I don’t know, we’ll see when we get there. But I’m going to play this game until I can’t play at a high level and try to take care of my body. But I’ll try to win as many as possible. And I mean, you think of eight or whatever Tom won, that seems crazy now, so I’ll take it one at a time, but I’ll try to win as many as I can.”
The sky is the limit for Mahomes and the Chiefs. If he continues on his current trajectory, he too will certainly earn a top spot among the elite quarterbacks to every play the game.
