Strong faith keeps Patrick Mahomes grounded through pressures of fame, success
Patrick Mahomes has earned widespread acclaim for leading the Kansas City Chiefs to three Super Bowl victories. Team Chairman Clark Hunt also praises him for putting God first.
“One of the guys that I have enjoyed seeing grow so much in his faith has been Patrick Mahomes,” Hunt said on the Intersection podcast. “He was raised in a Christian family, and I have seen him be more demonstrative of his faith here across the years. Anytime that I have an opportunity to have that conversation, it’s always special.”
Mahomes has long been open about his faith in interviews, especially during high-stakes moments such as the Super Bowl. “He’s my lord and savior,” he said. “It’s someone that I look up to every single day to decide what I want to do with my life and how I want to live my life. And so Jesus is everything to me at the end of the day.”
Mahomes shared a Bible passage that serves as his spiritual anchor. “It’s about a boy named Eutychus and his faith, listening to a sermon, and falling and dying and coming back to life,” Mahomes explained. “It spoke to me in that moment of how I need to live my life and how I need to be fully invested in God.”
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Even after suffering an ankle injury before Super Bowl LVII, he credited God with helping him push through the pain. “I want to thank God, man. He healed my body this week,” Mahomes told Tracy Wolfson of CBS. “To battle through that, he gave me the strength to be out here.”
Chiefs chaplain Marcellus Casey said Mahomes is a regular at the team’s chapel services, noting how deeply his faith has shaped his leadership. “Patrick is the same person in private as he is in public — humble, grounded and grateful,” Casey said.
Faith helps Mahomes handle the pressure that comes with being one of the NFL’s biggest stars.
“I feel like I’ve grown in my faith these last few years, and I think that’s given me more sense of who I am and why I play the game,” he told ESPN. “It just kind of relieves the pressure of playing a football game, because I know that I’m on that field to glorify him before everything.”
–Lee Hartman | Metro Voice
