Mahomes on Kansas City: 'It's somewhere I want to be for the rest of my career.'

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Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said the team’s goal is to keep star quarterback Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City for his entire career. And fortunately for Chiefs Kingdom, that’s something Mahomes says he wants to do, too.“The people are what really drew me to Kansas City,” Mahomes said during Wednesday’s media opportunity at Super Bowl LIV in Miami. “I hope I get to play there the rest of my career now. Just the people and how they accept you, care about you more as a person than as a player and how much passion they have for the Kansas City Chiefs. It’s special.“And it’s somewhere where I want to be the rest of my career.”ESPN.com reported earlier this week that the Chiefs aren't in a hurry to tie down Patrick Mahomes with a long-term extension as the star quarterback approaches free agency in 2022."There will be a right time sometime in the next 12 to 15 months to extend Patrick and when I say right time, I mean right time for both the player and the club," Hunt said, per ESPN.com's Adam Teicher. "I don't want to say necessarily it has to be this off season but I will say that it's a priority to get him done."BleacherReport.com reported Mahomes will earn $735,000 in 2020 and will see a significant raise in 2021, assuming the Chiefs trigger the fifth-year option in his rookie contract.Kansas City is expected to pay up for the reigning MVP and everybody expects him to remain a Chief for a long, long time.Mahomes threw for 4,031 yards and 26 touchdowns while helping guide the team to its first Super Bowl since 1969.BleacherReport.com reported, “The only question is if Mahomes eclipses Russell Wilson as the NFL's highest-paid quarterback and if so by how much.”