"With the Kansas City Chiefs failing to qualify, this year marks the first postseason without Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady or Peyton Manning since the 1998 campaign. Manning reached the playoffs in 1999, while Brady joined the ranks two years later. Mahomes had been in the playoffs each season since 2018, but he tore his ACL in a Week 15 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. The defeat eliminated Kansas City from postseason contention, and the Chiefs finished 6-11."
"Brady finished his junior year at Michigan with a victory over Arkansas in the Citrus Bowl a day before the NFL playoffs began. He threw for 209 yards, 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions, capping off a season with 2,427 passing yards and 14 touchdowns. He would play one more campaign in Ann Arbor before famously being picked in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft."
The Kansas City Chiefs failed to qualify for the 2025 playoffs after Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL in a Week 15 loss, leaving the team 6-11 and eliminated from contention. The 2025 postseason is the first since the 1998 campaign without Mahomes, Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. Manning returned to the playoffs in 1999 and Brady joined playoff teams in 2001. The three quarterbacks have a combined 12 Super Bowl victories, and Brady is the only one who faced both others in playoff games, going 2-3 versus Manning and 2-0 versus Mahomes. In January 1999 Mahomes was three years old, Brady had just completed his junior season at Michigan, and Manning finished a rookie season with 3,739 passing yards, 26 touchdowns and a league-high 28 interceptions as the Colts went 3-13.
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