Patrick Mahomes officially has a new look.
The Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback unveiled his new haircut over the weekend, showing off a stark departure from his previous style. Mahomes no longer has his signature Mohawk, a defining feature of his image during the first eight years of his NFL career.
Now, he has a simple cropped style with a fade on the side.
Mahomes’ barber DeJuan Bonds, who’s been cutting the quarterback’s hair since his rookie year in 2017, told Fox News Digital about the possible reason why Mahomes chose to go with such a drastic change.
Patrick Mahomes cheers on during the first half of the game between the Houston Cougars and the Texas Tech Red Raiders at United Supermarkets Arena on February 24, 2025 in Lubbock, Texas. (John E. Moore III/Getty Images)
“I would advise him not to do that unless he wanted to turn back to a 17-year-old Mahomes,” Bonds said, referring to Mahomes’ hairstyle in high school when it was essentially just a skin fade. “Even with the haircut that he got right now, it made him look a lot younger, but if I did something like that to him, he would even look younger, and I don’t think he wants to look younger like that.”
So instead, Bonds proceeded with the haircut that he had in mind for Mahomes. As it was going, the televisions at Purple Lable Luxury Barbershop in Overland Park, Kansas, had NBA games on, as they talked about basketball.
Bonds recalled Mahomes once tweeting about the Luka Doncic trade during a haircut before the Super Bowl while ESPN’s “SportsCenter” played on TV, and then seeing the show feature Mahomes’ tweet being discussed just minutes later during the same haircut.
And then, after the haircut was over, and Mahomes’ new look was cemented, the quarterback smiled.
“He basically smiled and said, ‘Yeah, I like that,'” Bonds said.
Bonds is now set to travel to give Mahomes a follow-up cut on Thursday to maintain the look.
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Jackson Thompson is a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He previously worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.
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