As we watched Patrick Mahomes this season put up his first year of less than historic numbers as a starter and the Chiefs offense sputter at times, there was this lingering feeling that once the playoffs rolled around, the Chiefs would figure it out. While the stat sheet has yet to reflect that, the Chiefs have definitely taken their offense up a notch in their two playoff games this season, and they’ll absolutely need to be firing on all cylinders against the Ravens smothering defense. The good news for the Chiefs: they have Patrick Mahomes under center.
In his five conference championship appearances to date, Patrick Mahomes has thrown for 3 touchdowns in four of them (2 touchdown passes in the other game in 2022). That puts his total touchdowns in five championship games over the years at 14, and he’s thrown just two picks against that total for a pristine 7:1 TD:INT ratio in his championship career.
It’ll be a much tougher task to replicate that kind of performance against the Ravens, but with a line on Underdog set at 1.5 passing touchdowns for Patrick Mahomes this weekend, anyone willing to take the over on that pick’em would be leaning on some very sturdy history as justification to doing so. Mahomes has thrown three touchdowns total in two playoff games so far against zero interceptions; in each of the two instances prior to this year where he entered the championship game with three or fewer total touchdown passes thrown, he threw for three touchdowns in the conference championship.