Before the version of the future in which a Patrick Mahomes monument stands alongside The Scout overlooking Kansas City and a roofed Arrowhead Stadium is better known as the Mahomes Dome and State Line Road is renamed Mahomes Pass, the reality actually already is this:
Entering just the fourth game of his era as the Chiefs’ No. 1 quarterback Monday night at Denver, Mahomes has emerged as a rare sensation in Kansas City sports lore.
For that matter, asked what Mahomes needs to do from here to become one of the so-called faces of the NFL, Denver linebacker Von Miller said, “In my opinion, I feel like he already is.