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Patrick Mahomes
Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs. Depth chart: QB1.
Scouting report
Patrick Mahomes: the full picture
Patrick Mahomes at a glance
Patrick Mahomes is a 31-year-old quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs, listed at 6'2" and 225 pounds. The Kansas City Chiefs drafted Mahomes 10th overall in the first round in 2017, out of Texas Tech; this is year ten in the league.
2026 projection
Our season projection has Mahomes at 304.1 PPR points for 2026, which ranks QB12 at the position and works out to 17.9 points per game over 17.0 projected games. The stat line behind that number is 4,524 passing yards, 22.6 passing touchdowns, 305 rushing yards and 3.8 rushing touchdowns. The model does not treat that as a promise: the range of outcomes runs from 30 points at the 5th percentile to 520 at the 95th, with a median of 304 and 78% projection confidence.
2026 season so far
Through 2 games of 2026, Mahomes has scored 50.6 PPR points, or 25.3 per game. That is 16.7% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Mahomes would finish with about 430 points, ahead of the 304.1 projected. It is a small sample, so expect that pace to settle. The best week so far is 29.0 points in Week 2 against IND, the QB4 finish that week. Mahomes has cleared the 18-point mark we count as a usable QB start in 2 of 2 games, a 100% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 33 qualified quarterbacks of 2026, Mahomes ranks in the 86th percentile in pass yards, the 82nd percentile in pass TDs and the 71st percentile in yards per attempt. Two of the 8 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 5th percentile in intended air yards.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Mahomes has finished as QB4 in 2020, QB4 in 2021, QB1 in 2022, QB8 in 2023, QB12 in 2024 and QB11 in 2025. That is four top-five positional finishes in 9 completed seasons. The high-water mark is 417.4 PPR points in 2022. Across 128 regular-season games on record, the totals read 36,505 passing yards, 272 passing touchdowns, 2,705 rushing yards and 20 rushing touchdowns.
Patrick Mahomes by the numbers
Mahomes has been the highest-scoring quarterback of the week 12 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 45 times and finished in the top twelve 84 times. The career high is 40.0 PPR points, set in Week 3 of 2020 against BAL, the top QB score of that week. The game log also shows 19 games of 30 or more PPR points, 51 300-yard passing games and 53 games with three or more touchdowns. In all, Mahomes has reached 20 points in 69 games, 54% of career appearances.
Contract
Mahomes is playing on a seven-year, $448 million contract signed with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2026, an average of $64 million per year with $95.5 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2032 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Mahomes carries a GV stock price of 5,937, which ranks 15th overall and QB4 among quarterbacks out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Mahomes 18th overall. Value has moved up 4.0 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Tyler Shough, Jared Goff and Lamar Jackson. See where Mahomes sits on the trade value chart.
Latest news
9 news items linked to Mahomes in the past two weeks, the most recent on September 22, 2026. Read the latest Patrick Mahomes news.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 304.1
- PPR / game
- 17.9
- Pass yards
- 4,524
- Pass TD
- 22.6
- Rush yards
- 305
- Rush TD
- 3.8
Patrick Mahomes fantasy outlook
Patrick Mahomes enters the 2026 season with KC and ranks QB12 and #20 overall in the current Gridiron Value projection. The model projects 304.1 PPR points across 17.0 games, or 17.9 points per game, placing the expected outcome in an elite fantasy tier. The preseason depth chart lists Patrick Mahomes as QB1, so the opportunity forecast is tied to that current role rather than name value alone. In 2025, Patrick Mahomes produced 285.7 PPR points in 14 games (20.4 per game), giving the projection a recent performance baseline. Projection confidence is 59%, with a 81% modeled chance of a Top-24 positional finish. The main variables are role stability, team scoring volume, and normal efficiency variance.
Week 3 projection
Patrick Mahomes is projected for 18.7 PPR points on the road at MIA in week 3, with a likely range of 2.0 to 46.1.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is up 4.0 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 64.0
- Dynasty
- 57.6
- Superflex redraft
- 98.9
- Superflex dynasty
- 95.7
- TE premium dynasty
- 34.7
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Cmp | Att | Pass yds | Pass TD | Int | Rush yds | Rush TD | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | KC | 2 | 47 | 74 | 566 | 5 | 1 | 40 | 1 | 50.6 |
| 2025 | KC | 14 | 315 | 502 | 3,587 | 22 | 11 | 422 | 5 | 285.7 |
| 2024 | KC | 16 | 392 | 581 | 3,928 | 26 | 11 | 307 | 2 | 283.0 |
| 2023 | KC | 16 | 401 | 597 | 4,183 | 27 | 14 | 389 | 0 | 280.2 |
| 2022 | KC | 17 | 435 | 648 | 5,250 | 41 | 12 | 358 | 4 | 417.4 |
| 2021 | KC | 17 | 436 | 658 | 4,839 | 37 | 13 | 381 | 2 | 361.7 |
| 2020 | KC | 15 | 390 | 588 | 4,740 | 38 | 6 | 308 | 2 | 374.4 |
| 2019 | KC | 14 | 319 | 484 | 4,031 | 26 | 5 | 218 | 2 | 287.0 |
| 2018 | KC | 16 | 383 | 580 | 5,097 | 50 | 12 | 272 | 2 | 417.1 |
| 2017 | KC | 1 | 22 | 35 | 284 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 10.4 |
Quarterbacks ranked near Patrick Mahomes
- Jared Goff QB9 · 304.9 PPR
- Malik Willis QB10 · 304.6 PPR
- Justin Herbert QB11 · 304.4 PPR
- Dak Prescott QB13 · 271.4 PPR
- Brock Purdy QB14 · 270.5 PPR
- Sam Darnold QB15 · 266.5 PPR
Kansas City Chiefs fantasy players
- Rashee Rice WR · 222.8 PPR
- Kenneth Walker III RB · 201.7 PPR
- Travis Kelce TE · 151.8 PPR
- Xavier Worthy WR · 145.7 PPR
- Tyquan Thornton WR · 95.0 PPR
- Emmett Johnson RB · 90.3 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-09-24.