Patrick Mahomes left Sunday’s win over the Cleveland Browns with a right ankle injury but it did not break, Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid confirmed after the game — a sigh of relief for fans after the starting quarterback’s concerning fourth quarter exit. “It’s not broken, but it’s sore,” Reid, 66, said about Mahomes, 29. “He’ll get started on the rehab part of it and then we’ll just have to see how he does down the road here.”
Mahomes and the Chiefs improved to 13-1 — the best record in the NFL — but the fourth quarter injury sent fear throughout the Kansas City fanbase as their star quarterback limped off the field.
“I was trying to run out of the pocket, obviously, fourth down, trying to make a play happen. And as I threw the ball, kind of got hit, and I haven’t seen it, but it’s probably someone hit me from behind as well,” Mahomes explained. “I kind of just got rolled up on. It kind of happens in football, and so trying to bounce back up and obviously hurt a little bit, but now we’ll just get after the rehab part of it and try to be ready for next week.”
Mahomes said it was “hard to say” how he was feeling immediately after Sunday’s win because he still had “adrenaline” from the game. “Usually it’s kind of a day after, you kind of get a good sense of it. But I feel like I could have finished the game in different circumstances.”
Reid said Mahomes “wanted to fight about” going back in the game and “probably could have gone back in,” but “there was no need for that.” “He’s a tough kid,” Reid added. The Chiefs have already clinched a playoff spot but are vying for the No. 1 seed in the AFC, which would give them a first round bye in the playoffs and an extra week to rest before they look to win their third-straight Super Bowl in February.
Despite the injury, Mahomes remained on the sideline with his team for the rest of the game, as the Chiefs cruised to a 21-7 victory over the Browns. Mahomes’ wife Brittany Mahomes was also on the sidelines with her husband before the Chiefs took the field, sharing a pregame kiss with her husband and father of their two children: daughter Sterling Skye, 3, and son Patrick “Bronze” Lavon Mahomes III, 2. The couple are expecting their third child, a girl, they announced in July.
