Patrick Mahomes Finally Addresses MVP Odds

The Kansas City Chiefs ended the regular season as the AFC conference’s No. 1 seed, despite everyone betting against them in 2022. All year, the club looked to play with a chip on its shoulder, headed by quarterback Patrick Mahomes II.

Mahomes is now the frontrunner to win the NFL MVP award, which would be his first since that incredible year in 2018. “Obviously, the MVP award is a special award that, if you get it, you’ll cherish that for the rest of your life,” Mahomes told reporters.

“It’s something that I think you can look back at more at the end of the season, [or] at the end of your career, and you can think about those great times that you had. It’s a trophy that symbolizes the team that was around you so you can think about those memories that you had with those guys, and how you went to battle with them and were able to win a lot of football games”.

“Like you said, we’re focused on the Super Bowl right now and trying to get there and win it, but obviously it will still be a big moment in my life that I’ll be able to forever remember”.

Mahomes acknowledged that he would value the MVP award and the Super Bowl triumph more now that he had experienced “the trials and struggles of losing.” He went on to say that losing “builds a greater appreciation for the grind and how you have to come every single day to work not knowing [if] you’re going to be at the top at the end of season.”

“I have two kids now, I’m married, I’m kind of an old soul,” Mahomes joked to the media, “I am literally the oldest quarterback in the AFC [playoffs], [and] it speaks to the talent that we have in the AFC. The [quarterbacks] that I’m looking around at are going to be there for a long time, so I’ll be the old head in the AFC for a while now and I’ll try to use that experience to my advantage.”