Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes quietly eclipsed another Troy Aikman career accomplishment
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw for a season-best 258 yards in Kansas City’s 22-9 win over the Giants on Sunday night.
Mahomes now has 33,021 career passing yards, which is the 45th most of all-time in NFL history.
With little fanfare, Mahomes leaped over a pair of quarterbacks on the NFL’s career passing yards list: former Bengals star Ken Anderson (32,838 yards) and Hall of Famer Troy Aikman (32,942 yards).
Mahomes previously eclipsed Aikman’s career mark for touchdown passes (248 for Mahomes to Aikman’s 165). And Mahomes is closing in on Aikman’s career completions (2,840 for Mahomes to 2,898 for Aikman).
Chiefs fans likely will remember Aikman’s snooty social-media message, which was shared exactly six years ago Tuesday.
The Athletic had noted on Twitter (which is now X) that Mahomes, who was in his second season as the Chiefs’ starting quarterback, had thrown “36% of Troy Aikman’s career touchdowns, in about 8% of the games.”
Aikman at the time for some reason decided to respond to that social-media post.
“Talk to me when he has 33% of my Super Bowl Titles,” Aikman wrote, and at the end of that season, Mahomes got his first title, which at the time was one-third of Aikman’s career total.
As Chiefs fans gleefully shared last year, Mahomes now has as many Super Bowl championships as Aikman.
And now Mahomes has nearly surpassed all of Aikman’s career stats, which would seem to make the Chiefs quarterback a lock for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Aikman last year said his 2019 tweet wasn’t about Mahomes, but how personal statistics are being overused to judge greatness.
This story was originally published September 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM.
