Nine months of waiting, settled on the edge of practice
Two torn ligaments. Six straight losses. A playoff streak that snapped for the first time since 2014. That is what Kansas City has been carrying around since December, and Andy Reid put an end to the guessing on Tuesday.
Patrick Mahomes will start against the Denver Broncos.
“There is a very good chance Patrick will be the starter. The most likely thing is that he will be out there,” Reid told reporters. Barring a late setback, the quarterback plays.
The injury happened on December 14, in a 16-13 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. Anterior cruciate and lateral collateral, left knee. The Chiefs never recovered, dropping every game that followed.
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The 62.7% that nobody in Kansas City wants to talk about
Reid was still calling it a day-by-day decision two weeks ago. The whole preseason ran on that answer.
Look at last season and you see a quarterback pulling against something. A 62.7% completion rate, the worst of his career. 3,587 yards, 22 touchdowns, 11 interceptions across 14 games.
Nine years in, all of them in Kansas City, the career line still reads like a Hall of Fame ballot: 66.2% completions, 35,939 yards, 267 touchdowns, 85 interceptions in 126 games. Two league MVPs. Three Super Bowl MVPs. The AFC picture shifts the moment he takes a snap again.
An undrafted rookie may be guarding that knee
Left tackle Josh Simmons has a back problem. If he sits, Kahlil Benson goes in.
Benson went undrafted. He signed in May, weeks after winning a national title with Indiana. Protecting the blind side of a quarterback coming off knee reconstruction, in his first professional game? Not exactly a soft landing.
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