{"id":37312,"date":"2025-11-07T22:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37312"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:07:04","slug":"deep-thoughts-heres-where-mahomes-chiefs-rank-in-explosive-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37312","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udca5 Deep Dive: Where Do Patrick Mahomes &#038; the Chiefs Really Rank in Explosive Passes? \ud83e\udd14"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure data-mm-id=\"_ixqzg54c9\">\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_3720,h_2092,x_0,y_474\/c_fill,w_2160,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images%2FImagnImages%2Fmmsport%2Farrowhead_report%2F01k9g4k6xb6g6qvhp539.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_zkme99b8e\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 Time and time again this offseason, Patrick Mahomes warned the NFL. The Chiefs wanted to be aggressive on deep passes and tight-window throws.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_k5852pdkr\">Halfway through their 2025 season, mission accomplished.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_da4bbezab\">Entering Week 10, Mahomes leads the NFL with 22 completions of 25-or-more yards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-mm-id=\"_28wvuifxy\">\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_4200,h_2362,x_0,y_0\/c_fill,w_620,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/arrowhead_report\/01k9g4rnphtn7eh0h46p.jpg\" alt=\"patrick mahome\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_xfnlyqnk3\">Anyone who lived through last season knows production like that, year-over-year, is significant. Over the entire 2024 campaign, he completed only 25 such passes.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_qiwp397uo\">What\u2019s more, his 32 completions of 20-plus yards in 2025 ranks third in the league behind Sam Darnold and Matthew Stafford (each with 34). In 16 games last year, Mahomes completed just 40 passes of 20-plus yards, or 2.5 per game. This year, he\u2019s averaging 3.6.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Most completions of 25+ yards this season: <\/p>\n<p>22 \u2013 Patrick Mahomes<br \/>21 \u2013 Dak Prescott<br \/>20 \u2013 Caleb Williams<br \/>20 \u2013 Sam Darnold<br \/>20 \u2013 Jordan Love<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tony Holzman-Escareno (@FrontOfficeNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrontOfficeNFL\/status\/1986817417440600064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 data-mm-id=\"_2xhalgwdn\">Better protection, available receivers &#8230; and Kelce<\/h3>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_sqnv2kwsd\">Much better protection this year, whether with Josh Simmons or Jaylon Moore at left tackle, is an obvious difference.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_0xj3zilcy\">Another huge boost to the team\u2019s passing offense, in addition to the obvious return of Rashee Rice and Hollywood Brown after long 2024 injuries, is Travis Kelce, who opted to return to the Chiefs this season after serious speculation that he could retire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-mm-id=\"_rgtdsdlgp\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_3824,h_2151,x_0,y_0\/c_fill,w_620,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/arrowhead_report\/01k9g4vdkswe861dnhrs.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_1o48mxgwc\">Not only is the tight end on pace for his first 1,000-yard season in three years, Kelce also has generated more than half of his yards after the catch. He has 284 yards after the catch, or 6.9 yards per reception.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_qm22405e9\">Five of Kelce\u2019s 41 receptions have gone for at least 25 yards. He had just three in 16 games all of last season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-mm-id=\"_ncadhkite\">\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_7524,h_4232,x_0,y_0\/c_fill,w_620,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/arrowhead_report\/01k9g4wyc9edv4f9fxsn.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 data-mm-id=\"_v3tlfht1v\">Receiving success rate<\/h3>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_0x2t1sc2j\">Perhaps more impressively with regard to Kelce, and how Mahomes has benefitted, is the tight end\u2019s receiving success rate of 71.2 percent. To put that in perspective, Kelce in 12 prior NFL seasons has never had a mark in that category above 69.0 percent, and that was his second season in the league, 2014.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_0hinz5rg1\">Receiving success rate is the number of receptions that gain 40 percent of the yardage needed on first down, 60 percent of what\u2019s needed on second down or 100 percent of the necessary yardage on third\/fourth down, divided by targets.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_9kiemsyaz\">Tyquan Thornton has six receptions of 25-plus yards, Xavier Worthy three, Brown three, JuJu Smith-Schuster two and Rice two.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_xdxyrja44\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 Time and time again this offseason, Patrick Mahomes warned the NFL. 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