Exclusive:Patrick Mahomes Announced Tables ‘GOAT’ Talk to End of Career:

The full feature-length interview with TIME discusses several topics, including how Mahomes nearly chose a baseball career over football. Of course, the Chiefs superstar was also asked about his pursuit of the NFL “GOATs.”

As you’d expect if you’re a fan of Mahomes, the signal-caller brushed off any “greatest of all time” talk until the end of his career.

“You have to build a consistency of a career,” he replied. “You see that in any sport.”

Explaining: “I’ve had a great run. I think I’ve done a great job so far. But it’s hard to take away from what Tom [Brady] did for so long, what Peyton Manning did, or Aaron Rodgers. There are so many guys, they were at such a high level for such a long time. In order to be in that conversation, you have to do that on a year-to-year basis.”

Mahomes also added that to be the best, “you can’t take it for granted that you did it the year before.”

“That’s something I’ll talk about when I’m done playing,” the two-time NFL MVP concluded. “Then people can make those decisions.”

Michael Obermuller covers the Kansas City Chiefs, New York Giants, Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati Bengals for Heavy.com, where he began working in 2021. An NYC area native and Quinnipiac graduate, his previous bylines include FanDuel’s The Duel, King Fantasy Sports and Pro Football Mania. More about Michael Obermuller.