{"id":209214,"date":"2025-10-13T03:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209214\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:04:08","slug":"sunday-night-football-patrick-mahomes-rushing-td-gives-chiefs-13-10-halftime-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209214\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night Football: Patrick Mahomes rushing TD gives Chiefs 13-10 halftime lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions and Chiefs played an entertaining first half, but Kansas City was able to take a three-point lead with a touchdown late in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Mahomes\u2019 1-yard rushing touchdown gave the Chiefs a 13-10 halftime advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs had gotten the ball back at their own 45-yard line with 2:42 left after an incomplete pass from Jared Goff to Amon-Ra St. Brown resulted in a turnover on downs.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City faced just one third down on the possession and converted it via penalty, as Rock Ya-Sin was flagged for defensive pass interference.<\/p>\n<p>A 17-yard pass from Mahomes to Kelce put the Chiefs on the 1-yard line. And though the Chiefs had a free play with a defensive offside penalty, Mahomes ran it in for a 1-yard score.<\/p>\n<p>That was Mahomes\u2019 fourth rushing touchdown of the season \u2014 tying a career-high.<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes also threw his <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/patrick-mahomes-throws-300th-touchdown-chiefs-lead-6-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">300th career touchdown pass<\/a>, setting a league record for the fewest games to accomplish the feat.<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes finished the first half 10-of-14 for 132 yards with a touchdown. He was strip-sacked by Aidan Hutchinson \u2014 on a play where reserve tight end Noah Gray was inexplicably blocking him one-ob-one \u2014 but recovered the loose ball.<\/p>\n<p>JuJu Smith-Schuster leads with a pair of receptions for 47 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions started the game with a long, methodical drive that ended with a 28-yard field goal by Jake Bates. Detroit looked like it had scored a touchdown, but the play was nullified by an illegal motion penalty when quarterback Jared Goff did not stop after moving out from under center.<\/p>\n<p>Goff was 9-of-12 for 93 yards with a touchdown in the first 30 minutes. Jahmyr Gibbs rushed for 59 yards on 13 carries, while Jameson Williams caught three passes for 44 yards \u2014 including a 22-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>The first punt of the night did not come until very late in the second quarter, as Detroit and Kansas City were each stopped once on fourth down.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs will have an opportunity to double up and extend their lead, as they\u2019ll receive the second-half kickoff. Detroit won the game-opening coin toss, but elected to receive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lions and Chiefs played an entertaining first half, but Kansas City was able to take a three-point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-209214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}