Patrick Mahomes is inevitable. And while his Houdini acts have sowed anguish across the NFL for the better part of a decade, no team has known this truth more often than the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers have the scars to prove it.

With the Chiefs prepping to play their second of three games in 11 days on Saturday against the Texans before wrapping up the trio of contests on Christmas Day against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, Santa Claus came to town in Kansas City a little early courtesy of all-world quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

Among 262 separate QB seasons since 2018, Mahomes’ 2020 season ranks first in “points earned per play” on third and fourth downs. Not only that, Mahomes also makes the leaderboard at third (2019) and seventh (2018), too.