Chris Simms Says Patrick Mahomes Has Fallen Behind Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, and Joe Burrow Over the Past Two Seasons

Since 2017, Patrick Mahomes has led the Kansas City Chiefs to five Super Bowl appearances, including three victories. His 89-23 record in the regular season, winning 10+ games in each of the seven seasons that he’s been KC’s starting quarterback, is beyond impressive. However, we saw an aberration from Mahomes and the Chiefs last season.

While they finished the year with a 15-2 record with Mahomes going 15-1 as a starter, the QB had one of the worst seasons of his career statistically. He finished the season with a 93.5 QBR, the second-lowest of his career. Mahomes threw for the least amount of single-season passing yards (3,928 yards) and touchdown passes (26).

Despite this, the Chiefs advanced to the Super Bowl. His lack of production on the field goes back to the season before, where he recorded the lowest pass rating of his career in a single season (92.6). This dip has led to some people in the football world, such as Chris Simms, rating Mahomes lower than a few quarterbacks heading into the 2025 season. 

Simms has done a QB countdown series on YouTube with NFL on NBC. And he ranked Mahomes as the fourth-best quarterback heading into this upcoming season.  The Chiefs’ star is ranked behind Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, and Josh Allen. 

“The quarterback plays week in and week out, and I don’t think he [Mahomes] would disagree with me. [He] has not been as high level the past two seasons as Burrow, Lamar, or Josh Allen,” Simms said. 

Simms’ ranking of Mahomes as the fourth-best QB heading into the 2025 season is backed by numbers. Mahomes threw fewer touchdown passes than the three quarterbacks Simms put above him. He also threw more interceptions than all of them. The Chiefs’ QB also had the lowest passer rating of the bunch. 

Going by Mahomes’ exalted standards, he underperformed on the stat sheet. But as a whole, taking into account the results, he didn’t.

The two-time MVP still led the Chiefs to the Super Bowl and had put them in position to be the first team in NFL history to complete a three-peat. Even if Mahomes doesn’t light up the stat sheet, his Chiefs are always in the reckoning to make a Super Bowl run if he is healthy and under center.