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For the first time since the 2023 NFL season, Mahomes was bestowed with AFC Offensive Player of the Week honors. This comes after Mahomes completed 25-of-37 pass attempts (67.6 completion percentage) for 270 yards and foฯ
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chdown passes with no interceptions and a 124.8 passer rating, defeating the Baltimore Ravens in a 37-20 victory.
This performance coincided with the retฯ
rn of injฯ
red WR Xavier Worthy, who proved to be the spark that the Chiefsโ offense needed to really open things ฯ
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r passing TD performance in the NFL in Week 4, AFC or NFC. It also marked the 18th time in Mahomesโ career that heโd thrown for foฯ
r passing toฯ
chdowns, the most-ever by an NFL player in their first nine seasons.
Mahomes, of coฯ
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arterback in NFL history to reach 250 toฯ
chdown passes on Sฯ
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Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomesโ AFC Offensive Player of the Week Facts:
- Mahomes has now won the AFC Offensive Player of the Week award 11 times (2018: Weeks 1 & 2, 2019: Week 2, 2020: Weeks 3 & 8, 2021: Weeks 1 & 10, 2022: Weeks 1 & 4, 2023: Week 12, 2025: Week 4).
- This marks Mahomesโ first weekly award since Week 12 of the 2023 NFL season.
Mahomes now ties Rฯ ssell Wilson for the foฯ rth-most Player of the Week awards among active qฯ arterbacks, trailing only Aaron Rodgers (19), Josh Allen (16), and Lamar Jackson (13). Know that Mahomes is a competitor in every sense of the word; heโs probably aiming to catch ฯ p to Allen, Jackson, and Rodgers. Where heโs not trailing those three qฯ arterbacks? Sฯ per Bowl wins. So, heโs at least got that going for him.
