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Player Dossier
2014-2016Texas Tech
Patrick Mahomes
QB • 6'3" • Whitehouse, TX, USA
Dual-threat creatorVolume operator
Patrick Mahomes is a dual-threat creator with 34.6 usage in the latest tracked season.
Impact Production
85
Top-tier box-score impact for a quarterback
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
75
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Texas Tech
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
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- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Texas Tech
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma
Player Story
Patrick Mahomes built his college career from 2014 through 2016 as a quarterback from Whitehouse, TX wearing No. 5, spending time with Texas Tech. The clearest part of Patrick Mahomes' career was his passing role:...
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- Committed To
- Texas Tech
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2014
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2017
- Selection
- Round 1 · Pick 10
- Overall
- No. 10
- NFL Team
- Kansas City Chiefs
Patrick Mahomes, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Texas Tech. Patrick Mahomes is a dual-threat creator with 34.6 usage in the latest tracked season.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Total offense
- 12,097
- Passing yards
- 11,252
- Rushing yards
- 845
- Touchdowns
- 115
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Patrick Mahomes Texas Tech Highlights
2016 · Texas Tech · Player Highlight
Patrick Mahomes college highlights at Texas Tech.
- Season
- 2016
- Type
- Player highlight
Quick Answers
Patrick Mahomes quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Texas Tech · QB
- Career Total Offense
- 12,097
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 32 games
- Best season
- 2016 Regular Season · Texas Tech
- Top game
- Oklahoma
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Whitehouse · Texas Tech
- High school pipeline
- Whitehouse · 11 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
- NFL Draft
- 2017 · Round 1 · Pick 10 · Kansas City Chiefs
- Latest roster
- No. 5 · Class 2016
- 2016 Total offense rank
- 5,337 total offense · QB 1st (top 1%) · Big 12 1st (top 1%) · National 1st (top 1%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Total Offense | Pass Yds | Rush Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 7 | 1,651 | 1,547 | 104 | 16 | 42.6 |
| 2015 Postseason | Texas Tech | 13 | 342 | 370 | -28 | 4 | 77.4 |
| 2015 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 13 | 4,767 | 4,283 | 484 | 42 | 77.4 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 12 | 5,337 | 5,052 | 285 | 53 | 78.3 |
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Patrick Mahomes played QB for Texas Tech. Across 3 tracked seasons, Patrick Mahomes recorded 11,252 passing yards, 845 rushing yards, and 3 receiving yards. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Texas Tech.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season
Texas Tech paired 5,337 primary output with 63.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
2015 Postseason role shape
pass-led usage with 65.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2016 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma State
Loss shaped by high passing volume and turnover pressure. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2015 Postseason · Texas Tech
Games
13
Primary Metric / G
393
Efficiency
65.6
Usage
28.1
Consistency
86
Best Game by takeover score
Oklahoma State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. LSU: 342. Sam Houston: 473. UTEP: 384. Arkansas: 301. TCU: 428. Baylor: 454. Iowa State: 429. Kansas: 383. Oklahoma: 280. Oklahoma State: 526. West Virginia: 269. Kansas State: 398. Texas: 442
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. LSU: 69 by 49.5. Sam Houston: 58 by 79.4. UTEP: 39 by 71. Arkansas: 40 by 71.4. TCU: 53 by 68.3. Baylor: 52 by 79.3. Iowa State: 49 by 63.2. Kansas: 63 by 57.8. Oklahoma: 55 by 51.2. Oklahoma State: 66 by 67.3. West Virginia: 52 by 59.6. Kansas State: 53 by 66.9. Texas: 55 by 67.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins401.4 · Games = 7 · +18.3 vs Losses
Losses383.2 · Games = 6 · -18.3 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
13 games
Featured metric
Total Offense
Top game by takeover score
Oklahoma State
Best efficiency game
79.4 vs Sam Houston
| Result | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 12/30 | vs LSU300-yard game · 3+ TD | L 27-56 | 28 | 56 | 370 | 50.0 | 4 | 1 | 49.5 | 13 | -28 | -2.20 | 0 | 12 |
| Fri 11/27 | @ Texas300-yard game · Dual-threat | W 48-45 | 22 | 39 | 372 | 56.4 | 1 | 1 | 67.3 | 16 | 70 | 4.40 | 1 | 17 |
| Sat 11/14 | vs Kansas State300-yard game · 3+ TD | W 59-44 | 33 | 42 | 384 | 78.6 | 3 | 0 | 66.9 | 11 | 14 | 1.30 | 1 | 7 |
| Sat 11/7 | @ West Virginia3+ TD · Dual-threat | L 26-31 | 21 | 34 | 196 | 61.8 | 3 | 1 | 59.6 | 18 | 73 | 4.10 | 0 | 12 |
| Sat 10/31 | vs Oklahoma State300-yard game · 3+ TD | L 53-70 | 38 | 55 | 480 | 69.1 | 4 | 2 | 67.3 | 11 | 46 | 4.20 | 1 | 12 |
| Sat 10/24 | @ Oklahoma | L 27-63 | 26 | 40 | 233 | 65.0 | 1 | 4 | 51.2 | 15 | 47 | 3.10 | 1 | 20 |
| Sat 10/17 | @ Kansas300-yard game | W 30-20 | 29 | 50 | 354 | 58.0 | 1 | 1 | 57.8 | 13 | 29 | 2.20 | 0 | 10 |
| Sat 10/10 | vs Iowa State300-yard game · 3+ TD | W 66-31 | 33 | 46 | 428 | 71.7 | 5 | 0 | 63.2 | 3 | 1 | 0.30 | 0 | 7 |
| Sat 10/3 | @ Baylor300-yard game · 3+ TD | L 35-63 | 32 | 50 | 415 | 64.0 | 3 | 2 | 79.3 | 2 | 39 | 19.50 | 1 | 25 |
| Sat 9/26 | vs TCU300-yard game · 3+ TD | L 52-55 | 25 | 45 | 392 | 55.6 | 2 | 0 | 68.3 | 8 | 36 | 4.50 | 1 | 15 |
| Sat 9/19 | @ Arkansas3+ TD · Dual-threat | W 35-24 | 26 | 30 | 243 | 86.7 | 1 | 2 | 71.4 | 10 | 58 | 5.80 | 2 | 21 |
| Sat 9/12 | vs UTEP300-yard game · 3+ TD | W 69-20 | 18 | 33 | 361 | 54.5 | 4 | 0 | 71 | 6 | 23 | 3.80 | 2 | 12 |
| Sat 9/5 | vs Sam Houston300-yard game · 3+ TD | W 59-45 | 33 | 53 | 425 | 62.3 | 4 | 1 | 79.4 | 5 | 48 | 9.60 | 0 | 24 |
Player Story
Patrick Mahomes story
Patrick Mahomes built his college career from 2014 through 2016 as a quarterback from Whitehouse, TX wearing No. 5, spending time with Texas Tech. The clearest part of Patrick Mahomes' career was his passing role: 11,252 passing yards, 93 touchdown passes, 1,349 attempts, and 845 rushing yards across 32 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2016 with Texas Tech. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
Quarterback careers are usually judged first by volume, efficiency, and scoring chances. His career also includes 845 rushing yards and 3 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 32 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Texas Tech.
The arc is straightforward: Patrick Mahomes moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
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Texas Tech
2014-2016
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Season Value Progression
2014201520152016
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 1,651 | 53.3 | 24 | — |
| 2015 Postseason | Texas Tech | 5,109 | 65.6 | 28.1 | 3,458 |
| 2015 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 5,109 | 65.6 | 28.1 | 0 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 5,337 | 63.1 | 34.6 | 228 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Oklahoma
Week 8 · L 59-66 · Conference game
Loss with balanced pass-rush production and strong creator value.
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Total Offense
91.2 takeover
819 total offense with 73.7 efficiency.
#2
vs Baylor
Week 14 · L 46-48 · Conference game
625
Total Offense
81.1 takeover
Loss with 625 yards of offense and 66.4 efficiency.
625 total offense with 66.4 efficiency.
#3
@ Arizona State
Week 2 · L 55-68
584
Total Offense
80.6 takeover
Loss shaped by high passing volume and turnover pressure.
584 total offense with 70.4 efficiency.
#4
vs Oklahoma State
Week 9 · L 53-70 · Conference game
526
Total Offense
76.7 takeover
Loss shaped by high passing volume and turnover pressure.
526 total offense with 67.3 efficiency.
#5
vs Stephen F. Austin
Week 1 · W 69-17
540
Total Offense
75.1 takeover
Win with balanced pass-rush production and strong creator value.
540 total offense with 80.1 efficiency.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2016 Regular Season · Texas Tech
5,337 primary output · 63.1 efficiency · 34.6 usage
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#2
2015 Postseason · Texas Tech
77.4
5,109 primary · 65.6 efficiency · 28.1 usage
#3
2015 Regular Season · Texas Tech
77.4
5,109 primary · 65.6 efficiency · 28.1 usage
Milestones
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250+ passing yards
23
300+ total offense
23
3+ TD games
19
Above avg efficiency
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