Patrick Mahomes reached 100 career wins with KC. He says this is his favorite

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Patrick Mahomes reached 100 career wins with KC. He says this is his favorite

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Patrick Mahomes has 100 regular-season wins with Kansas City now.

Mahomes tied Tom Brady as the fastest quarterback to 100 wins Sunday.

Mahomes threw 46 touchdowns in a 14-game stretch across two seasons.

The best stretch of Patrick Mahomes’ career, at least statistically, bridged his first year as a starting quarterback into his second.

In 14 straight games, he threw multiple touchdown passes. He threw for 4,779 yards and 46 touchdowns in that span with a 118.9 passer rating, one of the best runs in NFL history.

The wins look a bit different now statistically, but the subject of the sentence is the same.

They’re still wins.

Mahomes has 100 of them in the regular season now — he tied Tom Brady on Sunday as the fastest quarterback to reach that mark.

They’ve come in all shapes and sizes, but the point is they just keep coming.

“As I’ve gone throughout my career, I think I’ve gotten better and better at winning,” Mahomes said after reaching 100 in Sunday’s win against the Chargers. “It’s not always pretty. It’s not always how I want it to be. I want to throw three touchdowns, four touchdowns, and I want to put up big stats.”

The forthcoming list reflects that.

We’re counting down the best five regular-season wins — so no Super Bowl, AFC Championship or 13-second games included here. Some have the stats. But we’ve also taken into account the difficulty of the win, the impact of the win, or even the unlikelihood of it.

In fact, in the game he picked when I asked him this week — which also conveniently cracked our list — he did not even top 200 passing yards.

5. Dec. 31, 2017: Chiefs 27, Broncos 24

You can’t forget the first.

It’s the least impactful on the standings, but it set the stage for the ensuing offseason, when the Chiefs would trade quarterback Alex Smith to Washington to give the starting job to Mahomes.

What a ride it was.

There’s a throw from that game that some in the Chiefs’ building still talk about. He’s scrambling right and backward, with coaches on the sideline screaming for him to throw the ball away. But he instead launched a ball that hit Demarcus Robinson in stride for a first down.

With the Chiefs having the game in hand in the fourth quarter, offensive coordinator Matt Nagy approached head coach Andy Reid with a suggestion.

“What do you think about going with (third-stringer) Tyler Bray to finish the game?”

After the Broncos came back and tied the score — assisted by a Bray fumble that they’d return for a touchdown — the Chiefs trotted Mahomes back into the game.

As they stood on the sideline, preparing to re-enter, wide receiver Albert Wilson turned to Mahomes and said, “We’re about to go down there and score.”

They did.

His first win.

His first fourth-quarter comeback.

There would be plenty more of both.

4. Sept. 16, 2018: Chiefs 42, Steelers 27

Mahomes has thrown for six touchdowns in a game twice.

He lost one of them at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

The other? It came during his third career start.

Mahomes threw more touchdowns (six) than incompletions (five) in the win against the Steelers. The Chiefs made it look easy — their longest touchdown drive still needed less than four minutes.

But the real reason this outing cracks the list isn’t simply the six touchdowns. It’s not that it marked the Chiefs’ first win in Pittsburgh in 32 years.

It’s that after four touchdowns a week earlier against the Chargers, the encore against a Mike Tomlin and Ben Roethlisberger team is when you knew. This is real.

It’s when the world knew, too.

“I see Pat doing this all season long,” tight end Travis Kelce said after a game in which he caught his first two touchdowns from Mahomes.

There would be plenty more of those, too.

3. Dec. 16, 2021: Chiefs 34, Chargers 28 (OT)

This is a Patrick Mahomes list.

But this is a Travis Kelce game, too.

Mahomes is a perfect 8-0 in regular-season overtime games, but he’s thrown just one career walk-off touchdown.

The Chiefs did not have a single lead in the second half of a game in which the Chargers could have pulled even with Kansas City in the standings in late December. But they tied the game when Mahomes found Kelce for a 7-yard touchdown with 76 seconds to play.

He found him again for a 34-yard touchdown in overtime, a play in which Kelce weaved through the back end of the defense for the walk-off.

Mahomes finished with 410 passing yards and three touchdowns. Kelce had a career day with 10 catches, a personal-best 191 yards and two touchdowns. The most prolific duo in franchise history belongs on this list somewhere.

This one had the stats. It had the impact. It had the sentimentality.

2. Dec. 9, 2018: Chiefs 27, Ravens 24 (OT)

OK, one more that required some extra time.

For all the talk of the left-handed pass, the no-look shovel, the no-look dart, the best throw Mahomes has ever made came in this game.

Just ask him.

And it couldn’t have come at a bigger time.

The Chiefs trailed by 7 with 1:29 left and faced fourth-and-9 in their own territory. Mahomes sprinted to his right to avoid pressure and, a split-second before falling out of bounds, heaved a pass that somehow hit Tyreek Hill in stride for 48 yards. They’d tie the game with 53 seconds to play.

The Chiefs actually missed a 43-yard field goal that would have won the game in regulation — after Justin Houston forced Lamar Jackson to fumble — but won the game with a short kick in overtime.

The way this game played out was indicative of what Mahomes’ career has become. Even on a day in which he struggled for parts of the game, he still found his best with his back against the wall.

1. Dec. 29, 2019: Chiefs 31, Chargers 21

We’re allowing Mahomes himself to pick No. 1 — well, mostly because it was going to appear on the list even before he provided his answer Wednesday.

The numbers in this game are rather pedestrian — Mahomes finished with 174 yards, one touchdown and one interception.

So why does it rank No. 1?

It’s the impact. He hasn’t had a more significant one in the regular season.

As the Chiefs were beating the Chargers, the Dolphins upset the Patriots, giving the Chiefs a first-round bye. CBS play-by-play announcer Kevin Harlan famously began calling the Dolphins-Patriots upset that gave the Chiefs the first weekend off.

Inside the stadium, the word began to spread in the crowd and then, eventually, onto the field.

“I remember being on the field, and it wasn’t even about us and me winning the game — but hearing the fans and how excited they were getting,” Mahomes said. “You knew, just subconsciously, that the Patriots had lost, and were going to get that home field in the playoffs.

“I think that’s probably the one that sticks out to me more than anything.”

Us, too.

Who knows how different that postseason turns out without that combination?

This story was originally published October 23, 2026 at 6:30 AM with the headline “Patrick Mahomes reached 100 career wins with KC. He says this is his favorite.”