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Texas Tech football: Why Pat Mahomes’ NFL success is bittersweet

This weekend, the greatest Texas Tech football player of the modern era and perhaps all-time, Pat Mahomes, will make his second start in the AFC Championship game in two years as a starter. But while the rest of the football universe is reveling in the Kansas Chiefs’ QB’s brilliance, you’ll have to excuse us Red Raiders for feeling a bit bittersweet about what the Whitehouse, Texas native has been able to accomplish since leaving Lubbock.

Consider the milestones that the former Red Raider has already set his two years at the helm of the Kansas City offense. He’s become the fastest player in NFL history to throw for 9,000 yards, and with 16 career 300-yard passing games in his first 25 starts, he broke Hall of Famer Kurt Warner’s record.