The folks at The Ringer also slotted Kansas City in at No. 2 in their rankings this week, citing Mahomes’ poise in seemingly the most difficult of moments.
“At no point in the game did it ever occur to me that Kansas City would lose. That’s the spell this Mahomes-led group has cast over the years, and it goes deeper than the side-arm throws, the out-of-structure genius, and the downfield bombs that have come to define Mahomes as a passer. Instead, it was one of Mahomes’ less tangible but exceedingly crucial traits that really stood out in Kansas City’s win on Sunday: his complete and total inability to panic.”
Here’s where the Chiefs landed in some of the other power rankings from around the web:
