Patrick Mahomes is deserving of his second NFL regular-seaso

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    August 14, 2022 8:36 AM EDT

    Patrick Mahomes is deserving of his second NFL regular-season MVP award, but with a slew of prolific pa sing competition led by the Seahawks' Ru sell Wilson he might not get it. But that doesn't take away from the fact that Mahomes is still the best QB San Francisco 49Ers T Shirts in the league, enjoying his best season in the NFL.Through the Chiefs' 8-1 start as reigning Super Bowl champions, Mahomes has a career-high pa ser rating of 115.9 and reached new heights with his 87.0 ESPN QBR. He leads the league with 9.6 adjusted yards per pa sing attempt and9.04 adjusted net yards per pa sing attempt, also career-best marks.MORE: | Chiefs add playmaker for Mahomes in 2021 mock draftAfter throwing for a combined nine touchdowns and 788 pa sing yards the past two weeks in home wins over the Jets and the Panthers, Mahomes is up to 25 TDs and2,687 yards in nine games. That puts him on pace for 44 TDs and 4,777 pa sing yards.Those numbers might pale a little vs. the 50 TDs and 5,097 yards he put up during his second NFL season, his first as a starter, that earned him his first MVP award. But there's one small statistic that confirms Mahomes has taken his game to another improbablelevel of excellence his one interception.Mahomes has dropped back 340 times, has been sacked only 11 times and hasturned over the ball only once in Raheem Mostert Jersey 2020. He was intercepted by Raiders safety Jeff Heath down 33-24 late in the fourth quarter at homein Week 5, stamping the Chiefs' only lo s of the season, 40-32.Jeff Heath with the CLUTCH INT! : on CBS: NFL app // Yahoo Sports app: NFL (@NFL) Mahomes is in good shape to have the best touchdown-to-interception ratio in NFL history. Tom Brady set that record in 2016, with 28 TDs to only twointerceptions as part of 3,554 yards on 432 attempts. Incontrast, Mahomes, with 328 attempts, is on pacefor 584 attempts in 2020.Consider this year that Aaron Rodgers (24-to-2 on 280 attempts), Derek Carr (16-to-2 on 258 attempts) and Ryan Tannehill (19-to-3 on 254 Dwight Clark Jersey attempts) are also putting up top-15 TD-to-INT all-timeratios. Mahomes is doing Bryant Young Jersey what's he's doing at a much higher level.Then consider Wilson is up to eight interceptions, on pace for a career-worst 16 INTs forthe Seahawks. As dazzling as Kyler Murray has been running and pa sing for the Cardinals, he has matched Wilson with 10 giveaways in eight games.Mahomes is profiling much like Rodgers, who won two MVPs in similar ways in 2011 and 2014. In '11, Rodgers set an incredible bar with 45 TDs andonly sixINTswith4,643 yards pa sing. In '14, Rodgers posted 38 TDs to only fiveINTs with 4,381 yards pa sing.Wilson has never gotten an MVP vote, partly because his numbers haven't been quite as good as another elite pa ser in any of one of his seasons. But even though he's on pace for a record 56 TDs and 5,082 pa sing yards, his turnovers might cost him in relation to Mahomes. The TDs would be a record, breaking Peyton Manning's mark from 2013. The yards would be just shy of Mahomes' mark from 2018. That might not matter much when interceptions get so much negative attention.It's getting harder to ignore Mahomes having made fewer mistakes than everyone elsein a season duringwhichQBs are putting up video-game stats around the league. Chris Slayton Jersey Mahomes'combination of higher reward and lower risk is amazing to watch, something we have never seen from him or any other quarterback in NFL history.