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Patrick Mahomes missed the field with an ankle injury during the Kansas City Chiefs game against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday, December 15.
The Chiefs quarterback, 28, suffered an ankle injury in the fourth quarter of the game, when he was replaced by a backup Carson Wentz. Mahomes was listed as questionable to return by the Chiefs. While Mahomes walked off the field with a limp, he was later seen riding in the back of a cart, per NFL film.
“I was trying to make a play happen,” Mahomes said, according to the NFL. “As I threw the ball I got hit, and I haven’t seen it, it felt like someone hit me from behind too, so I rolled up forward. Kind of happens in football. Try to tie it back up but obviously it hurts a bit. Now we’ll get after the rehabilitation part of it and try to be ready for next week.”
Mahomes did not return to the game but watched from the sidelines as the Chiefs defeated the Browns 21-7.
“Patrick, his right ankle has been hurt. It’s not broken, but it’s painful,” Chiefs head coach Andy Reid he said about the quarterback’s ankle in an interview with reporters after the game, per social media. “He’ll start the rehabilitation part of it as we go, and then we’ll have to see how he does.”
“It’s not broken, that’s all I can tell you,” Reid continued. “It will literally be day by day as we go along. I don’t know how much swelling he has or any of that.”
Mahomes suffered an ankle injury following a combined hit when he was caught under two Cleveland Browns players: defensive end Okoronkwo’s platform and defensive tackle Mike Hall Jr.
“It’s sore,” Reid added to reporters. “It will literally be day by day. He probably could have gone back in. He wanted to go back inside. There was no need for that.”
Pictures after the game showed Mahomes leaving the locker room and being driven on the back of a cart headed for further evaluation on his ankles – he was not wearing a brace or tape on the injured extremity.
“Usually the next day is when you get a good sense of it,” Mahomes said of his injury. “I feel I could have finished the game in different circumstances. But I thought Carson was the smart decision. He has played a lot of football, and he finished the game well.”
At the moment it is not clear if Mahomes will be ready to play with the Chiefs for their last two games of the year. The NFL team is scheduled to play the Houston Texans on Saturday, December 21, and the Pittsburgh Steelers on Wednesday, December 25.
Mahomes’ injury comes after he was fined nearly $15,000 make a “violent gesture” during the Chiefs game on November 17 against the Buffalo Bills, they lost 30-21. In the fourth quarter, Mahomes was caught by CBS cameras pantomiming using a shotgun after a big play. The NFL considered this a punishable offense for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Patrick Mahomes is proud of how the Kansas City Chiefs played over the weekend but knows they still have to bring it to reach Super Bowl LVIII. “Hey, real quick, real quick,” Mahomes, 28, said in an NFL clip while in the team’s locker room after the team’s Sunday, Jan. 21, (…)
Despite recent events, Mahomes has previously stated that the fourth quarter of a football game should be “a little quieter” than the rest of the game.
“You want to have some blowouts,” Mahomes told reporters after the Chiefs’ 30-27 win over the Carolina Panthers on Nov. 24. “You want to be a little quieter in the fourth quarter. I’ve always said it can be a good thing as you get to the playoffs and later in the season, just knowing you’ve been in those moments before and knowing how to attack it.”
