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Originally Posted by dwwataz
The absolutely outrageous thing? He's a kid. Dude is 23 years old and in his first year as a starter. JFC! Imagine how much better his reads, his decisions, and his accuracy are going to be after a couple of seasons. I thought I'd read somewhere that a QB doesn't hit their prime til 28-30 or something like that. Lol dudes, he's not even close to "his prime" and he's making it look so easy.
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I was thinking about the long-term window of Mahomes in relation to someone like Rodgers and I realized that, like, nobody else on this team...matters.
Okay, that's overstating it, but think about the duration of Aaron Rodgers career. When he was a first year starter, his top 2 WRs were Greg Jennings and Donald Driver. He had a good young RB by the name of Ryan Grant. And Jennings and Grant were
young.
Rodgers was still in his prime when Jennings, Driver and Grant were done. His rookie developmental guy that year - Jordy Nelson - was washed up when Rodgers was smack in the middle of his prime.
The Patrick Mahomes throughput is going to be a thing to behold. There are going to be 3 different windows of skill position players in this guy's career. All these guys he's going to go out there over the next 3-4 seasons kicking ass and taking names with will be a memory for him by the time he's
30. And the guys he's leaning on from 30-34 will be completely different than the guys he's looking for when he's 35 and beyond. All these parts are going to move around him for years and years to come.
What a weird damn thing that is. Very surreal to think about.