Patrick Mahomes suffered excessive ankle sprain, vows to be ‘good to go’ for AFC Championship
When it occurred, it was in regards to the quietest you’ll ever hear issues at Arrowhead Stadium.
With 2:40 left within the first quarter of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ divisional spherical recreation towards the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday, Patrick Mahomes discovered himself pinned between two Jacksonville defenders — edge-rusher Arden Key, and defensive deal with Corey Peters. As Mahomes went to the bottom, Key rolled up on Mahomes’ proper ankle, and Mahomes was in apparent ache.
Mahomes tried to renew play, however as he was one-hopping easy handoffs at that time, it didn’t look good. Backup quarterback Chad Henne led the Chiefs on a 12-play, 98-yard drive within the first half to maintain his crew up to the mark, and Mahomes did finally return to complete the sport, a 27-20 win over the Jags.
Now we have now a greater concept of what Mahomes and the Chiefs are coping with shifting ahead. On Sunday morning, Ian Rapoport of the NFL Community confirmed that Mahomes did undergo a proper excessive ankle sprain, however that the quarterback has vowed to he “good to go” for the AFC Championship recreation between both the Buffalo Payments or the Cincinnati Bengals.
Mahomes was clearly sad about having to go to the locker room to get x-rays, which he defined after the sport.
“Yeah, I clearly didn’t wish to return and see it. I didn’t wish to go get the x‐rays or no matter it was. I needed simply to proceed to play. I informed them I might do it at halftime however (Head) Coach (Andy Reid), in the perfect curiosity of me, simply made – he made me return there and get that x‐ray earlier than he put me again within the recreation and for some time I assumed I might play by it and he stated, “I’m not placing you again in so that you may as effectively go get the x‐ray after which if it’s destructive or no matter I’ll put you again in.” So, I ran again there and acquired the x‐ray and was capable of end the sport.”
Not that the Chiefs had a number of time to do something for him. Wrap up the ankle and go was the technique.
“You don’t have time to get therapy and stuff like that,” Mahomes defined. “You simply put the spat on, get it tight, attempt to hold the swelling down after which go on the market and play. They made me do a few issues within the locker room to point out that I might transfer and defend myself if all the pieces sort of got here, stress got here, no matter it was and credit score to the crew. (The) offensive line did an incredible job of defending me, I acquired the ball out of my arms shortly and guys made performs. But it surely’s a crew sport for a cause and guys stepped up round me.”
Mahomes additionally defined that the one technique to get him out of a playoff recreation is involuntarily on his behalf
“I imply I’m not popping out of a playoff recreation until they take me out. I’m simply going to play. I really like this sport an excessive amount of; I really like this recreation. I really like enjoying with my teammates and having the ability to go on the market and luxuriate in it collectively. We put together all 12 months to be within the playoffs and to play in these video games and I’m glad that I used to be capable of get again within the recreation and it’s one thing that I simply love competing on this sport and ache is ache and also you’re going to need to take care of it both method.”
We’ll see how issues progress for Mahomes by the week, however preliminary findings appear to be comparatively optimistic.