Patrick Mahomes knew he won’t have the ability to cease on his bum ankle

In final Sunday’s 21-7 highway victory over the Cleveland Browns, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ celebrity quarterback Patrick Mahomes suffered what was later described as a “mild high ankle sprain.” However on Tuesday — and within the two days after that — Mahomes was a full participant within the crew’s practices.

Then, within the crew’s first offensive drive throughout Saturday’s 27-19 house win over the Houston Texans, Mahomes gained 12 yards on a third-and-13 on the Texans’ 41-yard line — after which two performs later scrambled 15 yards for the sport’s first landing.

“Once I got running,” Mahomes advised reporters after the sport, “I saw the end zone and just tried to get up in the air and get in the end zone. It wasn’t like, ‘setting the tone’ or anything like that. I [was] just trying to play football.”

Mahomes knew that he’d have the ability to run in a straight line — but when he’d out of the blue wanted to hit the brakes, that may have been an issue.

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“It’s just the stopping and cutting [that] isn’t great yet,” he admitted, “so I just try to keep it on the run — [to] keep moving and make a play happen.”

It’s not the primary time Mahomes has performed via accidents that may hold one other participant on the sidelines — however so far as he’s involved, it’s simply a part of his job.

“I ask a lot from the guys around me,” he defined, “so I feel like if I’m going to ask them to play through pain — if I’m going to ask them to play through little knicks and bruises and stuff like that — [then] I have to do it as well.”

Nonetheless, Mahomes understands he won’t at all times have the ability to robust it out.

“I’m not going to put us in a position to be in a bad spot — or lose a football game,” he insisted, “but if I can feel like I can compete and win, I’m going to be out on that football field.”

Head coach Andy Reid continues to be amazed.

“He spoils the dog out of us there because he’s so tough — [both] mentally and physically,” he marveled. “You just get used to it. Most guys don’t come back from that like he did — but he set his mind to it, and then he jumped in that training room and stayed in there.”

Reid believes Mahomes has instilled the identical willpower in these round him.

“It sends a message to the whole team,” famous Reid. “Our guys are real good with that; our leaders are good in that way. They try to play through things like that.”

However Mahomes was hardly the one Kansas Metropolis participant who attracted consideration on Saturday. Broad receiver Hollywood Brown was lastly capable of make his Chiefs debut, accumulating 5 catches for 45 yards on eight targets — the primary of them a 12-yard achieve to transform a fourth-and-1 after Mahomes’ first scramble. Maybe extra importantly, his very presence helped create alternatives for vast receivers Xavier Worthy and DeAndre Hopkins.

“I thought those guys did a great job,” mentioned Mahomes. “I think they had won even more than I even threw them the football. But you saw: we moved the ball well today — and we have to continue to do that. Some of the drives stalled out quickly, but once we kind of got the drives going, it seemed like we could move down the field.”

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The pinnacle coach believes that Brown — and the remainder of his receivers — strike the precise steadiness between eager to make performs and understanding it’s a crew sport.

“The great thing about all those guys,” noticed Reid, “is that they all want to play — [but] we just have one ball. I try to explain that to them, and they all [still] want to go make the play. [Brown is] like that: he loves playing.”

All advised, the pinnacle coach liked what he noticed in Saturday’s recreation.

“I thought this was our best game offensively, defensively and special teams-wise,” he mentioned. “We’ve got to keep going, though. We’ve got a lot of room to improve [and] we have to make sure we keep doing that. We’ve got a short turnaround to get that done in — against a good football team.”

The crew can be on the highway to play the (10-4) Pittsburgh Steelers on Christmas Day. Kickoff can be at midday (Arrowhead Time) this Wednesday on Netflix and KCTV/5.