How would you like to have the start of your weekend spoiled by one website's arbitrary NFL player rankings? Perfect! You're in luck. Pro Football Focus, no strangers to controversial opinions, finished their top Top 50 NFL players rankings on Friday, and Pat Mahomes … got second (gasp!). Try to remain calm. If it's any consolation, they consider him the best offensive player? Take a look:
The good news is that they were, as most places are, pretty flattering when it came to Mahomes:
"Mahomes is just different," they said. "He attempts and completes passes that no other quarterback in the game can even think about, and he regularly adds even more freakish plays to that repertoire. Including the postseason, Mahomes has compiled the highest PFF passing grade of any quarterback since he became the starter in Kansas City, and nobody has more than the 137 big-time throws the Chiefs superstar has recorded over that span.
"Mahomes is a great example of a player for whom the eye test really does match up with just how talented he is. It took a complete collapse by a backup offensive line in the Super Bowl to keep him from winning back-to-back championships by the age of 25."
And on top of that, they even put Travis Kelce third! So really, 2nd and 3rd is basically better than 1st. Just trust me, the math adds up.