Because of all the interest in this thread, I've place all of the video content of Patrick Mahomes II's college career, and draft day goodness into a single post that can be found here. Enjoy! [Reply]
ESPN’s poll of NFL executives, coaches and scouts shows that the league still regards #Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes among the best at his position heading into 2022. https://t.co/AerQ20wZOW
NFL executives rank Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes as second-best QB in NFL
Charles Goldman
ESPN’s latest survey of 50 league executives, coaches, scouts and players places Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes among the elite tier of quarterbacks in the NFL.
Only back-to-back NFL MVP and Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers received a higher ranking than Mahomes. Voters provided a list of their 10 best players at the QB position, with ESPN ranking candidates based on the number of top-10 votes, composite average, interviews and film analysis from ESPN’s Matt Bowen. This is the second consecutive year that Mahomes has been ranked as the No. 2 quarterback in the league.
According to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, Mahomes fell into the top-5 of this ranking by “a wide voting margin.” The primary concern with Mahomes heading into the 2022 NFL season seems to be centered around the team trading Tyreek Hill, but NFL executives don’t seem to be too concerned at all.
“I’m not worried about Patrick,” an NFC exec told Fowler. “He’s proven himself. When you have an elite quarterback, you can lose pieces around you and still make it work. [Hill] is just a receiver.”
I’m not sure that I’d be so bold as to classify Hill as “just a receiver.” That said, it appears that those around the league feel like Mahomes has already proven himself and earned the benefit of the doubt. One executive seemed most impressed with the way that he’s adapted and changed his game to become more patient throughout his four seasons as a starter.
“He’s had to evolve in that way, and I think long term it will be good for him,” a different NFC exec told Fowler. “There did appear to be a hangover from the Super Bowl, and [the Buccaneers] showed you can get pressure on [the Chiefs] and make things difficult for him, make him scramble around and cover the deep ball. He doesn’t always want to check it down. But he’s good enough to overcome all of that and just has a special ability to make plays.”
Yeah, crazy how you can get pressure on Mahomes when a Super Bowl caliber defense goes against third and fourth stringers on Mahomes' offensive line. [Reply]
ESPN’s poll of NFL executives, coaches and scouts shows that the league still regards #Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes among the best at his position heading into 2022. https://t.co/AerQ20wZOW
I get that Rodgers has won back to back MVPs and is a stat whore, but the guy hasn't won a meaningful game in like 10 years. He feasts on a historically horrid division and chokes in the playoffs year after year after year. He's a total beta and will never win another Super Bowl.
There can't honestly be any GMs in this league who would actually take him over Mahomes. If they say they would, they're just full of it. [Reply]
If anyone believes in Tagovailoa's abilities, it's Hill, who said recently that those who doubted him are about to retract their former statements.
"It's gonna be a lot of people taking their words back on what they said about [Tua]," Hill said on his podcast, "It Needed To Be Said." "Reporters, analysts, Twitter trolls. All those people are gonna take their words back on what they said about [Tua]. I'm gonna be sitting there, eating my popcorn."
"In the NFL, they only give you like two or three years to be a successful quarterback, especially if you're a first-round draft pick," Hill said. "And if you don't succeed after those years, then it's kick rocks, man. So, basically, they're going to put Tua into that. So this is basically his last year, man, just to show people what he's got."
Hill may be overselling Tua in many ways, but he is accurate on this being a big year for the 24-year-old. The Dolphins last made the playoffs in 2016, when they lost in the wild card round.
