One of the sidebars of Super Bowl 57 is that the two starting quarterbacks — Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts — together will make history.
This title game marks the first ever Super Bowl featuring two Black starting QBs. Hurts is aiming to become the fourth Black QB to win a Super Bowl after Mahomes, Doug Williams and Russell Wilson.
Also, Hurts (24 years, 189 days) and Mahomes (27 years, 148 days) make up the youngest QB matchup in Super Bowl history.
Hurts (14-1, .933) and Mahomes (14-3, .824) tied for the most QB wins in the NFL this year. They also finished 1st and 2nd in passer rating (Mahomes, 105.2; Hurts, 101.5) and yards per attempt (Mahomes, 8.10; Hurts, 8.05), while ranking among the top in TD/INT ratio (Hurts, 2nd, 3.67; Mahomes, 3rd, 3.42), total yards per game (Mahomes, 1st, 329.9; Hurts, 3rd, 297.4) and total TDs (Mahomes, 1st, 45; Hurts, 4th, 35).