{"id":64167,"date":"2023-02-11T03:12:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T03:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64167"},"modified":"2023-02-11T03:12:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T03:12:36","slug":"as-n-f-l-s-quarterback-guard-changes-patrick-mahomes-wins-second-m-v-p-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64167","title":{"rendered":"As N.F.L.\u2019s Quarterback Guard Changes, Patrick Mahomes Wins Second M.V.P. Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/09\/sports\/football\/patrick-mahomes-nfl-mvp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>As N.F.L.\u2019s Quarterback Guard Changes, Patrick Mahomes Wins Second M.V.P. Award<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2023-02-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krisrhim1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kris Rhim<\/strong><\/a>, Sports Reporter<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/09\/sports\/football\/patrick-mahomes-nfl-mvp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; width: 80%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2023\/02\/09\/multimedia\/09nfl-mvp-vmkj\/09nfl-mvp-vmkj-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"display: block; font-size: x-small; width: 80%; ; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Mahomes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Mahomes<\/a> is the first Black quarterback to win the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/09\/sports\/football\/patrick-mahomes-nfl-mvp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MVP<\/a> twice. He also won after the 2018 season, his first as a starter. <em>Kevin C. Cox\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Mahomes, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas_City_Chiefs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kansas City\u2019s<\/a> quarterback, won football\u2019s top honor for the second time, establishing his place atop a new generation of passing talent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phoenix,_Arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PHOENIX<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Mahomes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Mahomes<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas_City_Chiefs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> quarterback, won his second <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Football_League_Most_Valuable_Player_Award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Most Valuable Player Award<\/a> on Thursday night, for his work in perhaps the most challenging season of his career, cementing himself as the leader of a new wave of talented young quarterbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes is the first Black quarterback to win the league\u2019s highest individual honor twice, having previously won the award after the 2018 season, his first as a starter.<\/p>\n<p>In the past 20 seasons, the award has been won by the generation-defining quarterbacks <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peyton_Manning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peyton Manning<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Brady\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Brady<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aaron_Rodgers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aaron Rodgers<\/a> 12 times, with no other player repeating as M.V.P. With the retirements of Manning, in 2016, and Brady this season, Mahomes leads an emerging class of young passers defining the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Football_League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">N.F.L.<\/a>..<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/09\/sports\/football\/patrick-mahomes-nfl-mvp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahomes, Kansas City\u2019s quarterback, won football\u2019s top honor for the second time, establishing his place atop a new generation of passing talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8952,30710,33765,26777,2640,18329,30709,7222,2327],"class_list":["post-64167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-media","tag-football","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kris-rhim","tag-national-football-league","tag-new-york-times","tag-nfl","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-sports","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64168,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64167\/revisions\/64168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}