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Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes aims to become first player to win MVP, Super Bowl in same season this century

For the second time in his career, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was voted The Associated Press ¹ú²úÍâÁ÷ÍøMost Valuable Player.

Now he'll attempt to add two-time Super Bowl winner to his already prestigious resume on Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles.

For Mahomes to become just the seventh player to win MVP and a Super Bowl in the same season, he'll need to break a long and dubious streak of MVPs coming up short in the biggest of big games.

The last nine AP ¹ú²úÍâÁ÷ÍøMVPs to play in the Super Bowl the same year lost the big game, according to ¹ú²úÍâÁ÷ÍøResearch. Adding more historically bad mojo, the last to do so was Tom Brady, whose New England Patriots lost in Super Bowl LII to the Eagles.

Mahomes has rattled off ridiculous numbers and defied logic throughout an already spectacular career of just six seasons. However, history isn't on his side heading into Sunday.

No player this century has captured the league's highest on-field honor and won a Super Bowl in the same season. It's a feat that hasn't been accomplished since 1999 when Kurt Warner led the Rams to a triumph after introducing himself to the football world in the first season of a Hall of Fame career.

Players to Win ¹ú²úÍâÁ÷ÍøMVP, Play in Super Bowl in Same Season (since 2000)

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Player Super Bowl Result
KC Patrick Mahomes LVII ???
NE Tom Brady LII Lost
ATL Matt Ryan LI Lost
CAR Cam Newton 50 Lost
DEN Peyton Manning XLVIII Lost
IND Peyton Manning XLIV Lost
NE Tom Brady XLII Lost
SEA Shaun Alexander XL Lost
OAK Rich Gannon XXXVII Lost
STL Kurt Warner XXXVI Lost

Quarterbacks to win an ¹ú²úÍâÁ÷ÍøMVP and play a Super Bowl are 0-8 since 2000, per ¹ú²úÍâÁ÷ÍøResearch, and adding to Mahomes' statistical stress is that he's squaring off with Eagles QB Jalen Hurts, the MVP runner-up. Super Bowl LVII will be the fourth instance in which the MVP and MVP runner-up have played against each other. In the previous three showdowns, the runner-up took home the world championship.

MVP vs. MVP Runner-Up in Super Bowl Matchups

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MVP MVP Runner-up Super Bowl
KC Patrick Mahomes PHI Jalen Hurts LVII
ATL Matt Ryan NE Tom Brady LI
IND Peyton Manning NO Drew Brees XLIV
CIN Ken Anderson SF Joe Montana XVI

Having defeated the Eagles during a 2021 matchup in his only start against the team, Mahomes would join Warner, Brett Favre (Green Bay Packers; 1996), Steve Young (San Francisco 49ers; 1994), Joe Montana (49ers; 1989), Terry Bradshaw (Pittsburgh Steelers; 1978) and Bart Starr (Packers; 1966) as the only players to win an MVP and Super Bowl in the same season with a triumph on Sunday.

It would be the latest and greatest accomplishment for the five-time Pro Bowler, who won his first MVP in the 2018 season and a Super Bowl the year after.

If Mahomes and the Chiefs come up short, though, he will become the 10th player in a row to win the league's highest individual honor and fall days later striving for the NFL's pinnacle of team achievement.

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