Not long after Patrick Mahomes won his first Super Bowl, he stood at a podium inside a tent adjacent to Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, wearing a gray “champions” T-shirt over his shoulder pads. “Do you see yourself as the new face of the NFL?” the new Super Bowl MVP was asked. In demurring this label, he quickly brought up other quarterbacks—one in particular.
“There’s several guys that can be the face of the NFL,” Mahomes said on that night, almost eight months ago. “I mean, Lamar was the unanimous MVP last night and he had one of the best seasons of all time at the quarterback position.