{"id":348939,"date":"2025-12-14T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348939\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:54:08","slug":"patrick-mahomes-exits-late-as-chiefs-postseason-hopes-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348939\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes exits late as Chiefs’ postseason hopes end"},"content":{"rendered":"

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs<\/a> quarterback Patrick Mahomes<\/a> suffered a left knee injury with less than two minutes left in Sunday’s 16-13 loss<\/a> to the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> and will undergo an MRI either Sunday night or Monday, according to coach Andy Reid.<\/p>\n

Mahomes was trying to rally the Chiefs in the closing seconds but instead, their comeback — and playoff — hopes ended, as Kansas City’s was officially eliminated from postseason contention with the loss.<\/p>\n

Mahomes was hurt after he scrambled out of the pocket and was chased down by Chargers defensive end Da’Shawn Hand<\/a> before throwing an incompletion. He remained down on the ground for several minutes before standing up and leaving and was replaced by Gardner Minshew<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A few minutes later, Mahomes exited the medical tent with a towel over his head while being assisted by the medical staff, walking gingerly to the locker room.<\/p>\n

The Chargers finished off the win with a Derwin James Jr<\/a>. interception of Minshew, as they improved to 10-4 while dropping Kansas City to 6-8.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs had advanced to the postseason each of the past 10 seasons.<\/p>\n

Kansas City entered the season hoping to be just the second team in the Super Bowl era to return to the game’s biggest stage for a fourth consecutive season. Instead, it was unable to reach the postseason largely because it couldn’t accomplish what it did a year ago: win one-score games.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Chiefs won 11 such games, the most in a single campaign in league history. But for many factors this season — a lack of execution, the defense not getting off the field late and Harrison Butker<\/a> missing a career-high eight field goals — the Chiefs suffered seven one-score losses, including Sunday’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes suffered a left knee injury with less than two minutes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-348939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}