{"id":877900,"date":"2026-09-02T22:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877900\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:14:23","slug":"chiefs-qb-patrick-mahomes-appears-on-track-to-start-week-1-vs-broncos-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877900\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes appears on track to start Week 1 vs. Broncos | Latest NFL News, Analysis & Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chiefs will practice again Thursday before a long weekend, then resume work Monday. After that, they’ll be into their game-week schedule, pointed toward a Monday night showdown between two of the favorites to win the AFC West this season.<\/p>\n

One question looming over Mahomes’ return: Will not playing in a preseason game affect his performance? The only other time he has gone an entire preseason without a game snap came during the pandemic, when all of the exhibition games were canceled.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe and Pat, we’ve kind of been working this offseason, the timing and stuff you need to work on,\u201d Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy<\/a> said, when asked about the rapport with his quarterback. \u201cI feel like when it’s time to play, we’ll all be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worthy always thought Mahomes would be ready for the start of the season. In fact, he returned to Kansas City early this summer to work out with Mahomes, who was spending his days rehabbing his knee while watching World Cup games on TV.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis will and want-to is beyond anything I’ve ever seen,\u201d Worthy said. \u201cHe kind of leads the team in that way. You have your leader leading like that and guys fall behind. He’s just a \u2018will\u2019 guy, always willing to work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chiefs will practice again Thursday before a long weekend, then resume work Monday. After that, they’ll be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[3979,64,63,1240,44,593,6584,4718,85,21178],"class_list":["post-877900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-preseason","tag-sports","tag-xavier-worthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877900","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=877900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}