{"id":879298,"date":"2026-05-01T05:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/879298\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:12:17","slug":"mike-gundy-calls-patrick-mahomes-the-best-college-quarterback-that-ive-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/879298\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Gundy calls Patrick Mahomes ‘the best college quarterback that I’ve ever seen’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before Patrick Mahomes<\/a> became a three-time Super Bowl champion with the Kansas City Chiefs, he put up huge numbers as Texas Tech\u2019s<\/a> quarterback. Although he never got a win against Oklahoma State<\/a>, he left a lasting impression on Mike Gundy<\/a>, who called Mahomes the best quarterback he\u2019s seen at the college level.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma State won all three games against Texas Tech in which Mahomes appeared from 2014-16. But in two starts, the future No. 10 overall pick threw for 841 yards and seven touchdowns in two high-scoring games \u2013 a 70-53 loss in 2015 and a 45-44 loss in 2016.<\/p>\n

After that game in 2016, though, Gundy recalled pulling Mahomes aside and encouraging him to declare for the 2017 NFL Draft<\/a>. The longtime Oklahoma State coach saw enough to put Mahomes in a category of his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the best college quarterback that I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d Gundy said on The Herd<\/a>. \u201cAnd I told him after his junior year, we beat them I think by one point. \u2026 I went out on the field and told him, \u2018Patrick, there\u2019s no reason you should come back and play college football next year. You need to go out [for the draft].\u2019 And he laughed, but I was being serious because he was the best college quarterback that I\u2019ve ever seen. He made play after play after play after play. And he did it in very high-scoring games.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that time he was in our league, we had four or five quarterbacks in the Big 12 ever year over about a six- or seven-year stretch and all of them played in the NFL. You know as well as anybody, if you have an NFL team on your team in college, you\u2019re going to win games. You\u2019ll win nine, 10, 11, 12 games. He played against those teams week to week. He was the best college quarterback that I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

During each of his two years as Texas Tech\u2019s starter, Patrick Mahomes led the Big 12 in passing yards. He threw for 4,653 yards and 36 touchdowns as a sophomore in 2015, then followed that up with 5,052 yards and 41 touchdowns as a junior in Kliff Kingsbury\u2019s Air Raid offense.<\/p>\n

From there, of course, the rest is history. Mahomes landed with the Chiefs and, after sitting a year behind Alex Smith<\/a>, became one of the NFL\u2019s top quarterbacks. Since becoming the starter in 2018, he has made six Pro Bowls and is a two-time NFL MVP. Of course, he also has three Super Bowl titles and won MVP in each victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before Patrick Mahomes became a three-time Super Bowl champion with the Kansas City Chiefs, he put up huge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,41847,49,48,68639],"class_list":["post-879298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-mike-gundy-87-midwest-city","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-patrick-mahomes-ii-14-whitehouse"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116497609111421416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}