I don’t know if it’s like using a motorcycle, however you’re at all times ready to play

Chiefs backup quarterback Chad Henne entered Saturday’s sport within the second quarter with Patrick Mahomes within the coaching room present process X-rays on his injured ankle. The Chiefs have been on their very own 2-yard line.

Twelve performs, 98 yards and 6:05 later, the Chiefs have been ultimately zone. Henne’s 1-yard landing cross to Travis Kelce gave the Chiefs a 17-7 lead, and so they by no means appeared again.

“I don’t know if it’s just like riding a bike, however you’re at all times ready,” Henne stated, by way of Jared Sapp of arrowheadpride.com. “I feel with this offense — clearly [with] all of the weapons that now we have — and simply staying ready each second, I feel you keep prepared. When your quantity is named, you simply go in there and do what you probably did in apply [and] within the assembly rooms and simply take it to the sport.”

Henne performed just one different snap, taking a knee on the ultimate play of the primary half earlier than Mahomes returned for the second half. He completed 5-of-7 for 23 yards and a landing.

“Everyone trusted Chad,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid stated. “That’s the best way he handles himself and the boldness the blokes have in him. I believed all of them stepped up. Chad did a pleasant job getting the ball out on time, and the O-line did a pleasant job. [Isiah] Pacheco had the [39-yard] future that was stunning. They blitzed on it, and he type of bought bumped again, and [he] saved going like he does. Put collectively a pleasant run, a pleasant drive on the entire.

“The blokes love Chad, and so they play for him.”

Henne’s first profession postseason motion got here in a 2020 divisional spherical sport towards the Browns when Mahomes went out within the second half with a concussion. Henne rushed for 13 yards on third-and-14 after which threw a brief cross to Tyreek Hill for a primary down on fourth-and-one to seal the Chiefs’ 22-17 win over the Browns.

“The workforce has a lot perception in Chad,” Mahomes stated. “He’s achieved it earlier than. He’s received divisional video games by coming in and enjoying. You noticed on that 98-yard drive. He ran the offense the best way the offense is meant to be run. He threw it to the proper guys, and guys stepped up and made performs.

“That’s what an amazing workforce does. It’s not about one man. It’s about the entire workforce.”

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