Patrick Mahomes just surpassed his season TD projection in Vegas. In eight weeks.

A bet on Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes thriving in his first season as a starter is a winning ticket.

Already.

There are no shortage of ways to quantify Mahomes’ breakthrough in the NFL, but here’s a good one to add to the list.

Mahomes threw two first-half touchdown passes in Sunday’s first half against Denver — the second one a 13-yard strike to Sammy Watkins over the middle of the field — which gave him 24 for the season.

And that’s more than the oddsmakers in Las Vegas projected him to throw for the entire year. His over/under for touchdowns in 2018 was just 23 1/2.

After two more touchdowns in the third quarter, Mahomes is on pace to throw for more than 50 this year.

Sam McDowell

Sam McDowell covers Sporting Kansas City, the Royals, Chiefs and sports enterprise for The Star

This story was originally published October 28, 2018 at 2:34 PM.