NFL Week 6's top performance? Vote for the 'Himmy' Award winner

Week 6 brought plentifulness of twists and turns, from an upset triumph by the New York Giants connected Thursday to an entertaining "Sunday Night Football" clash betwixt 2 postseason hopefuls. Star and relation players alike made highlight-worthy plays passim the week, helping their teams unafraid important victories.

But lone 1 subordinate tin beryllium "him."

Ahead of this week's "Monday Night Football" doubleheader featuring the Buffalo Bills versus the Atlanta Falcons and the Chicago Bears astatine the Washington Commanders, it's clip to determine who earned the grant connected Sunday.

This week's nominees for ESPN's "HIMMY" Award are:

• Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback

• Baker Mayfield, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback

• Drake Maye, New England Patriots quarterback

• Rico Dowdle, Carolina Panthers moving back

Already made up your mind? Cast your ballot below. Need a refresher first? Keep speechmaking for each candidate's case, past marque it official.

ESPN Research contributed to this story.

Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes

Stats to know: 22-30, 257 yards, 3 TDs

Leading the Chiefs to their 3rd triumph successful their past 4 games, Mahomes was successful good signifier arsenic Kansas City took down the Detroit Lions 30-17.

In summation to starring an businesslike and divers passing crippled -- 8 antithetic Chiefs recorded a reception connected Sunday nighttime -- Mahomes assisted his squad connected the crushed arsenic well. The prima backmost recorded a rushing touchdown, leaving his people connected each 4 of Kansas City's trips to the extremity portion successful its large win. It was Mahomes' 2nd crippled this play with 4 combined passing and rushing touchdowns. He had nary specified games past play and has had conscionable 1 specified crippled implicit the erstwhile 2 seasons combined.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Baker Mayfield

Stats to know: 17-23, 256 yards, 2 TDs

The Buccaneers are 5-1 connected the season, with the show of their backmost successful Week 6 playing a large role.

Mayfield's biggest play Sunday came precocious successful the 3rd 4th arsenic Tampa Bay was looking to adhd immoderate cushion to a one-point lead. On second-and-11, Mayfield uncorked a 45-yard walk to wide receiver Tez Johnson for the rookie's archetypal vocation touchdown to enactment the Buccaneers up by 8 successful the 30-19 win. Mayfield is the archetypal backmost with 1,500 passing yards, 12 passing touchdowns and nary much than 1 interception successful his team's archetypal six games of a play since Patrick Mahomes successful 20...