ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes is done having children after his third child comes into the world.
The Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback and his wife Brittany announced that they will have a third child in their family last Friday. An Instagram reel showed their oldest daughter, three-year-old Sterling, running to the camera holding a strip of ultrasound photos during a family photo shoot.
The couple welcomed Sterling in February 2021 and their second, Patrick “Bronze” Mahomes III in November 2022.
When Mahomes reported to training camp on Tuesday at Missouri Western State University in Saint Joseph, he explained that the trio of children is a perfect-sized family for him.
"I'm done, I'll say that," Mahomes said. "It's awesome. I always wanted to have kids young. I got to grow up in the locker room and it made such an impact in my life."
Mahomes' father, Patrick Mahomes Sr., was a professional baseball player whose 11-year career took him around the country in Major League Baseball and to Japan for two years in Nippon Pro Baseball. Even with Mahomes's two-child family now, they manage to travel the world when Mahomes isn't in football season spanning from watching tennis matches at Wimbledon to vacations in Portugal and Spain.
"I wanted to have kids young and I'm on my third kid now to join our family and Brittany does a great job of doing that," he said. "We still go out and enjoy our life and let our kids see these great things they might not be able to remember what videos of. It is really cool because I spend so much time in the building at football for these 7-8 months and whenever I'm with my family, I want to enjoy those moments."
As the family grows, it gets tougher and tougher for Mahomes to leave his family to spend a month with his teammates preparing for the team's quest for a third straight Super Bowl. But the time spent 54 miles north of Kansas City is worth it as the franchise aims for the high goals that they have achieved in the past two seasons.
"Being in the building and being at lunch together, being at dinner together, always kind of being around the guys, you build this kind of culture and this family-type brotherhood. I'm excited to continue to do that with a lot of new faces and then with guys that have been here before because we know this is what it takes in order for us to go out there and be great," he said.
Mahomes also brought a TV to camp for the first time in his eight-year career for two very special reasons.
"I brought a TV for [newly released video game College Football 25] and the Olympics. So that's my first year of really doing that."
