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Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes made NFL, franchise history vs. Steelers

Another game, another historic performance for Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. It seems like it happens every week at this point, but that doesn’t make it any less impressive for the fourth-year starter.

During Kansas City’s playoff romp against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night, Mahomes put up an impressive stat line: 404 yards passing, five touchdown passes, 29 yards rushing and an interception.

With that mega stat line, Mahomes made franchise history, ousting his former mentor Alex Smith for the single-game passing yards record:

It’s actually sort of surprising that Mahomes hadn’t already hit that 400-yard mark in the postseason, but I suppose it was bound to happen sometime.

It wasn’t just franchise records that Mahomes broke on Sunday, though. His five touchdown passes in a span of 11 minutes and 31 seconds was a postseason feat that will likely not be broken for a long time, if ever:

It’s so tough to score that quickly in the NFL, but doing it against a playoff team is that much tougher and that much more awe-inspiring.

And wait — there’s more. If the above stats weren’t enough, this last one should widen some eyeballs. Mahomes is the first quarterback to put up 400+ yards passing and five-plus passing touchdowns in a playoff win. Another quarterback did it in a playoff loss, though: Ben Roethlisberger, in 2017.

Considering Roethlisberger’s (probable) impending retirement, it seems like destiny that Mahomes would put up a stat that mirrors one of Big Ben’s records in the latter’s final NFL game. That just shows how, occasionally, the game tends to come full circle.

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