As Patrick Mahomes prepares for his fourth Super Bowl in five years, the big question being raised is could he one day take Tom Brady's mantle as the GOAT of the NFL?
Tom Brady is universally known as the GOAT in NFL circles. With seven Super Bowl wins from his illustrious 23 years in the sport, he set standards and records that will never be beaten.at the end of just his seventh season in the league - and if he wins he will match the three rings Brady had in his collection after his first seven campaigns.
Both quarterbacks only played one game in their first year in the league, but in the following six seasons success has flowed - and Mahomes has actually eclipsed Brady in some areas. So he is actually delivering more often than Brady did in his first half-dozen campaigns - and ironically it could have been more had Brady not beaten Mahomes in both their play-off meetings, and AFC title game with the Patriots and a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
He has a similar link-up with tight end Travis Kelce that Brady had with Rob Gronkowski, and for the first time in his career Mahomes had to go on the road to make the Super Bowl - winning in Buffalo and Baltimore and relishing playing the visiting villain. Mahomes has only lost three play-off games, and two of those were against Brady. The GOAT conversation would have come up much sooner but for those, and now Brady is long gone.