The Kansas City Chiefs have learned one tried-and-true lesson in the past several years: When in doubt, put the ball in Patrick Mahomes’s hands. In Sunday’s 19-17 win over the Los Angeles Chargers, Mahomes had the ball on third down at the Chargers’ 20-yard line coming out of the two-minute warning. Down one point, the Chiefs wanted to run down the clock to kick a potential game-winning walk-off field goal, and they curiously decided to call a pass play rather than run the ball.
To be specific, Mahomes decided to call the play. Moments before the Chiefs’ 3rd-and-7 snap, the Kansas City quarterback delivered a simple line to Andy Reid to convince him to let him pass: “I’ll make something happen,” Mahomes said, via Nate Taylor of The Athletic. And he did.
Mahomes juked out one Chargers defender before finding Travis Kelce for a crucial nine-yard gain and a fresh set of downs. The Chargers wouldn’t see the ball after that, and kicker Matthew Wright would cap off the Chiefs’ dramatic victory— with a little help from unseen forces, perhaps.
Mahomes. Kelce. FIRST DOWN.
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Just add it to the list of Mahomes’s all-time clutch plays.
