{"id":69747,"date":"2025-06-14T05:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T05:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=69747"},"modified":"2025-06-14T05:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T05:40:21","slug":"misleading-jalen-hurts-statistics-lead-to-great-news-about-patrick-mahomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=69747","title":{"rendered":"Misleading Jalen Hurts statistics lead to great news about Patrick Mahomes"},"content":{"rendered":"

While minding my own business last week, I ran across a social media graphic. Posted a couple of weeks after the Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 40-22 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX, it was labeled \u201c47 Games in and Hurts CRUSHES Brady. Path to GOATness.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s pretty amazing, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s just one problem: this comparison has been deliberately manipulated<\/em> to make Hurts look better. It compares Brady\u2019s second through fourth seasons (ending in 2003) to Hurts\u2019 third through fifth seasons (ending in 2024).<\/p>\n

But if we make this comparison the right way \u2014 comparing the two players\u2019 first four seasons as starters (Brady only played in one game as a rookie, while Hurts started four games in his first season) \u2014 it tells a much different story.<\/p>\n

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Once again, Hurts compares very favorably to Brady. But a closer examination reveals two things.<\/p>\n

The first is that the \u201cAwards & Honors\u201d section provided by Stathead is missing <\/em>from the first graphic. That was probably a deliberate omission, too \u2014 because it reveals the most important reason Brady\u2019s first four seasons as a starter were so special: he had collected three Super Bowl rings, compared to just one for Hurts.<\/p>\n

The second is that a big chunk of the statistics where Hurts was way <\/em>better than Brady are essentially the result of the Eagles\u2019 signature tush push play. Of Hurts\u2019 52 rushing touchdowns during this time, 45 were in goal-to-go situations \u2014 and 35 of those were for two or fewer yards.<\/p>\n

Still, even if we ignore the tush pushes, we can certainly say that Hurts was a better rusher than Brady was during their early seasons. But that isn\u2019t a high bar to clear, is it? Even as a young player, Brady wasn\u2019t much of a rusher. In the last four seasons, 46 NFL quarterbacks have had at least three rushing touchdowns \u2014 exceeding the two Brady registered in his first four seasons \u2014 while 45 have outgained Brady\u2019s 2001-2004 rushing yards.<\/p>\n

By now, you must be asking why we should care that some Eagles fan \u2014 caught up in the excitement of their team knocking off the mighty Chiefs on the precipice of a three-peat \u2014 ginned up a misleading statistical comparison between Hurts and Brady. Honestly… there were probably a few Chiefs fans who did something similar after Kansas City won Super Bowl LIV.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s why: because it reminds us there is another quarterback who played just one game in his rookie season before rising to the top of the league. Let\u2019s compare the first eight seasons for Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady, shall we?<\/p>\n

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There isn\u2019t a single category<\/em> in this comparison in which Mahomes does not at least tie <\/em>the greatest quarterback of all time.<\/p>\n

My work here is done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the Philadelphia quarterback recently got the best of his Kansas City counterpart, he still has a long way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":69748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"\nMisleading Jalen Hurts statistics lead to great news about Patrick Mahomes - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=69747\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Misleading Jalen Hurts statistics lead to great news about Patrick Mahomes - News 365\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While the Philadelphia quarterback recently got the best of his Kansas City counterpart, he still has a long way to go.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=69747\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News 365\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-14T05:40:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Thiet-ke-chua-co-ten-91.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MrLuu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"MrLuu\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=69747\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=69747\",\"name\":\"Misleading Jalen Hurts statistics lead to great news about Patrick Mahomes - 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