Fresh off his second consecutive Super Bowl win and the third Super Bowl win of his career, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was revealed as one of TIME magazine's cover stars for the TIME 100 on Tuesday.

Mahomes' inclusion in the TIME 100 means the publication considers him one of the 100 most influential people in the world over the past year.

Legendary Major League Baseball shortstop and third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who 696 career home runs in 22 seasons for the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers and New York Yankees, lauded Mahomes in a write-up for TIME:

"Patrick Mahomes has always had the heart of a champion. I remember Pat as a young kid, coming to practice with his dad to tee up baseballs for me and my teammates. I distinctly remember giving him the worst advice ever. 'Don't play football. The money's in baseball.' I'm happy to be wrong and glad he didn't listen! Patrick has transcended the game of football to become one of the most respected athletes of all time, both on and off the field. His insatiable desire to win is outdone only by his passion to give back and make the world around him better. Patrick's legacy will live on far beyond his playing days. And—as evidenced by his back-to-back Super Bowl wins—he's not done yet!"

In terms of pro athletes, it is difficult to argue that anyone has had a better recent run of success than Mahomes, who has two Super Bowl wins, two Super Bowl MVP Awards and one NFL MVP Award to his credit over the past two seasons.

Kansas City moved up to select Mahomes with the No. 10 overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft, and after sitting and learning behind Alex Smith for one year, Mahomes instantly established himself as an elite signal-caller in 2018.

In his first season as a starter, Mahomes led the NFL with 50 touchdown passes and also threw for 5,097 yards, earning him NFL MVP honors.

Mahomes is now a six-time Pro Bowler, two-time First Team All-Pro, two-time NFL MVP, three-time Super Bowl champion and three-time Super Bowl MVP.

He has also thrown for a remarkable 28,424 yards, 219 touchdowns and 63 interceptions in 96 career regular-season games.

With Mahomes as the starter, the Chiefs have played in four Super Bowls, and they have never gotten eliminated earlier than the AFC Championship Game.

As a result, Mahomes acknowledged in an interview with TIME's Sean Gregory that he is off to one of the greatest starts to a career for a quarterback in NFL history, along with Tom Brady and Joe Montana.

Even so, Mahomes believes he is "nowhere near" being the greatest quarterback of all time yet, adding:

"You have to build a consistency of a career. You see that in any sport. I've had a great run. I think I've done a great job so far. But it's hard to take away from what Tom did for so long, what Peyton Manning did, or Aaron Rodgers. There are so many guys, they were at such a high level for such a long time. In order to be in that conversation, you have to do that on a year-to-year basis. You can't take it for granted that you did it the year before. ... That's something I'll talk about when I'm done playing. Then people can make those decisions."

Given that Mahomes likely has many years of great football ahead of him, he is perhaps well on his way to GOAT status.

If he remains on his current path, he has a chance to not only surpass Brady's career records for passing yardage and passing touchdowns, but he could also meet or exceed Brady's record of seven Super Bowl wins.

Perhaps most impressively, Mahomes has proved that he can win with a stacked supporting cast around him and as someone who has to elevate his teammates.

Mahomes won his first Super Bowl with prime Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce as his main weapons, and then last season he did it without Hill and with Kelce having a down year by his standards.

That suggests the Chiefs will be Super Bowl contenders for as long as Mahomes plays, and that is a scary prospect for the rest of the league.