Patrick Mahomes: College football career, stats, highlights, records

Patrick Mahomes received the 2018 NFL MVP award and Tremendous Bowl LIV the next season, making him one of many largest stars within the sport. Earlier than he was an NFL MVP, Mahomes was placing up record-breaking passing numbers at Texas Tech.

Here is all the pieces you have to find out about Mahomes’ faculty profession.

The vitals on Patrick Mahomes

College: Texas Tech
Place: Quarterback
Top: 6-3
Weight: 230 kilos
Years lively: 2014-16

Listed below are Patrick Mahomes’ profession stats in faculty. Scroll to the proper to view the whole stats.

The place did Patrick Mahomes go to school?

Patrick Mahomes attended Texas Tech, selecting the Pink Raiders over affords from Oklahoma State and Rice.

What sort of prospect was Patrick Mahomes in highschool?

Mahomes was ranked because the No. 398 prospect within the 2014 recruiting class, in keeping with the 247Sports Composite rankings, which positioned him because the No. 29 pro-style quarterback prospect and the No. 82 participant within the state of Texas.

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What was Patrick Mahomes’ report in faculty?

Patrick Mahomes’ Pink Raiders went 13-19. His greatest season in Lubbock got here in 2015, when Texas Tech went 7-5 within the common season.

Data set by Patrick Mahomes

Patrick Mahomes’ title seems within the FBS record book 22 instances.

• Most yards gained (recreation): 734 yards vs. Oklahoma, Oct. 22, 2016
• Most passing yards by two opposing gamers (passing): 1,279 yards — Patrick Mahomes (734) and Baker Mayfield (545), Oct. 22, 2016
• Most yards gained by two opposing gamers (whole): 1,383 yards — Patrick Mahomes (819) and Baker Mayfield (564), Oct. 22, 2016
• Most performs (recreation): 100 vs. Oklahoma, Oct. 22, 2016 (88 passes, 12 rushes)
• Most yards gained (recreation): 819 yards vs. Oklahoma, Oct. 22, 2016 (734 passing, 85 speeding)
• Most yards gained towards one opponent (profession per recreation): 553.0 vs. Baylor
• 2015 FBS chief in whole offense: 5,109 yards
• 2016 FBS chief in whole offense: 5,312 yards
• 2nd in single-game go makes an attempt: 88 makes an attempt vs. Oklahoma, Oct. 22, 2016
• third in profession passing yards per recreation: 351.6 yards/recreation, 2014-16
• third, twenty third in whole yards per recreation: 442.7 yards/recreation (2016), 393.0 yards/recreation (2015)
• 4th in whole yards per recreation (profession): 377.3 yards/recreation
• eighth in season passing yards per recreation: 421.0 passing yards/recreation, 2016
• Ninth in season passing yards: 5,312 passing yards
• T-Ninth in single-game completions: 52 completions vs. Oklahoma, Oct. 22, 2016
• T-Eleventh in single-game whole offense: 625 yards vs. Baylor (598 passing, 27 speeding)
• 14th in passing yards in a season: 5,052 yards, 2016
• T-Twenty first in single-game passing yards: 598 yards vs. Baylor, Nov. 29, 2014
• twenty second in whole offense in a season: 5,109 yards (4,653 passing yards, 456 speeding yards)

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What have been a few of Patrick Mahomes’ greatest video games in faculty?

Patrick Mahomes’ breakout recreation got here within the Pink Raiders’ regular-season finale throughout his freshman season. In a loss to Baylor, Mahomes accomplished 30-of-56 passes for 598 yards and 6 touchdowns. He had thrown for 949 yards in his earlier six video games and he threw for 63 % of that whole in that one recreation. “Patrick Mahomes set a Massive 12 freshman report with 598 yards passing and threw for six TDs in a 48-46 loss to No. 5 Baylor,” the Herald and Assessment reported.

Mahomes constructed off his final three video games as a freshman and threw for not less than 320 yards in every recreation as a sophomore. He threw for not less than 300 yards 10 instances in 13 video games, together with 4 400-yard video games. Towards Iowa State, the tremendous sophomore accomplished 33-of-46, or 71.7 %, of his passes for 428 yards, 5 touchdowns and no interceptions. “The Pink Raiders lived as much as their fast-scoring, run-and-gun status by tallying a school-record 776 yards of whole offense (515 passing, 261 speeding),” wrote The Des Moines Register’s Tommy Birch. “Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes accomplished 33 of 46 passes for 428 yards and 5 touchdowns. ‘He is a mighty advantageous quarterback,’ (Iowa State coach Paul) Rhoads stated.”

Three weeks later in a loss to Oklahoma State, Mahomes was 38-for-55 for 480 yards, 4 touchdowns and two interception. Mahomes accomplished 33-of-42 passes towards Kansas State for 384 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions in mid-November. “Texas Tech locked up a spot in a bowl with a 59-44 win over Kansas State on senior day in Lubbock,” the Austin American-Statesman reported. “Patrick Mahomes accomplished 33 of 42 passes for 384 yards to elevate the Pink Raiders (6-5, 3-5 Massive 12). It is particular progress over a yr in the past, when Tech slid to 4-8.”

Mahomes’ already-impressive stats grew to become record-breaking as a junior, when he had 4 video games with not less than 500 passing yards, together with a single-game FBS report 734 yards towards Oklahoma. Playing against Oklahoma and future Heisman Trophy winner and No. 1 overall NFL draft pick Baker Mayfield, Mahomes and Mayfield combined for 1,279 passing yards in the game, while Mahomes also set records for most plays in a game (100) and total yards gained (819).

Mahomes had seven whole touchdowns within the recreation — 5 passing and two speeding — and his 85 speeding yards have been a single-game career-high in faculty.

In his remaining faculty recreation, Patrick Mahomes threw for 586 yards, six touchdowns and no interceptions towards Baylor, incomes a 215.3 passer ranking— the second-highest of his faculty profession.

What awards did Patrick Mahomes win in faculty?

• 2016 Sammy Baugh Trophy winner
• 2016 Second Workforce All-Massive 12
• 2015 All-Massive 12 Honorable Point out
• 2014 All-Massive 12 Honorable Point out
• 2014 Freshman Offensive Participant of the 12 months
• Six-team Massive 12 Offensive Participant of the Week

What did folks say about Patrick Mahomes?

Paul Myerberg of USA TODAY: “In an period when customized quarterback improvement has develop into commonplace, Mahomes by no means had a personal coach and by no means attended the quarterback-only camps which have develop into a ubiquitous a part of a recruit’s offseason schedule. He did not play soccer till center faculty, then as a security, and did not take over at quarterback till the third recreation of his junior yr.”

Former Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury after Mahomes grew to become the Pink Raiders’ beginning quarterback in 2014: “Patrick is an amazing athlete. He can prolong performs and throw it downfield. He is so younger, so it is not all the time fairly, however I believe he has a knack for making performs … All of it moved very quick for him. He has to develop up shortly.”

Kingsbury: “There isn’t any guru; there is not any camps. He is only a pure thrower.”

Kevin Lyttle of the Austin American-Statesman: “And when (Davis) Webb injured his left shoulder final week, freshman Patrick Mahomes grew to become the one wholesome scholarship quarterback on the roster. In a perfect world, Mahomes, who was a three-star recruit from Whitehall in East Texas, would have redshirted. As an alternative, he is prone to be the person when Tech visits Kansas State on Saturday.”

Kingsbury after Mahomes led Texas Tech on a game-winning 75-yard drive to beat Iowa State 34-31: “He is bought quite a lot of aggressive spirit. He all the time thinks he’ll win and he thinks he is the very best participant each time he goes on the market.”

Former Texas Tech teammate Devin Lauderdale: “Patrick has been displaying up and … has been stepping up as a pacesetter regardless that he’s younger. We have now been getting nearer and nearer day by day. We have now been engaged on our timing and he tells me what he likes and what he would not like.”

Former Texas Tech teammate DeAndre Washington: “He is removed from a standard quarterback. He is his personal man.”

Former offensive coordinator Eric Morris: “He is fairly particular. It is enjoyable to observe him create these performs and discover folks downfield. How correct he throws the ball on the run is what’s actually exceptional to me.”