Mahomes: I want long-term security but new deal will happen in time

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes isn't sweating when his inevitable historic payday will arrive, and is instead focused on retaining his Super Bowl title.

"Obviously I want to be a Chief for a long time," Mahomes said Friday, according to NFL.com's Nick Shook. "I want to have a contract that says that and I can go out there and know I have that security. I understand and trust the Chiefs organization and everybody in it that they're gonna handle it the right way.

"I trust my representation that they're going to ease my mind and let me go out there and just love the game I love playing. So for me, whenever that happens, it happens. But I'm gonna focus on being the best football player I can be every single day."

The Chiefs reportedly exercised his fifth-year option for 2021, giving the team an extra season of control while trying to come to terms on an extension that's all but certain to make Mahomes the NFL's highest-paid player.

Mahomes reached the NFL's mountaintop last year in his third season, helping give the Chiefs their first Lombardi Trophy since 1970 with a dramatic fourth-quarter comeback against the San Francisco 49ers.

While some teams can get complacent after winning a title, the reigning Super Bowl MVP believes Kansas City has the right mental makeup to become the first team to repeat as champions since the New England Patriots in 2003-04.

"I think as a team a lot of the times when you win that Super Bowl you kind of relax," Mahomes said. "You feel like you've done it. You went out there and accomplished your goal and you relax a little bit during the offseason.

"But I think with our team, the little bit of a difference we have is it feels like every single guy on our team after we won the Super Bowl ... we definitely celebrated for a week or two ... and then after that it was that mindset that we're going to get back after it. We want to do this again."