After a small handful of years in which the Texas Tech Red Raiders failed to have a quarterback throw for 3000 or more yards in a season, Kliff Kingsbury oversaw an offense that helped restore a bit of a 21st century tradition for the TTU football team.
From 2000 to 2012, every single starting quarterback for the Texas Tech football team managed to throw for 3000 or more yards in a single season. That includes Kingsbury, who accomplished that task on three different occasions in back-to-back-to-back seasons from 2000 to 2002.
And yet, when Kingsbury became the head coach in Lubbock, replacing Tommy Tuberville, the Red Raiders didn’t produce a quarterback in 2013 or 2014 that was able to go through the entire season and make it to at least 3000 yards passing.
Enter Patrick Mahomes, who did (and continues to do) a lot of great things for Texas Tech and his ability to thrive in Kingsbury’s offense got the Red Raiders back on track here. Because for the first time in a couple seasons, they had a quarterback break that 3000 yard mark once again.
Texas Tech football history: In 2015, Patrick Mahomes provided Texas Tech with its first 3000 yard passing season in years
Mahomes was really good in 2014. He really proved to be the future of the program as he split time with Davis Webb. When Mahomes took over as the full time starter in 2015, he managed to efficiently and effectively throw the ball a ton, avoid turnovers (for the most part), and produce a ton of yards and points.
Mahomes went through his first six games of the season and managed to throw for 300 or more yards in all but one game. And then he went through the next seven games of the season and managed to throw for 300 or more yards in all but two games.
As a result, Mahomes managed to throw for 4653 yards and 36 touchdowns against 15 picks (that’s kind of a lot of picks, I suppose) while completing 364 of his 573 pass attempts.