Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes suffered an ankle injury and was removed from Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Browns and his status is currently unclear for next Saturday’s game against the Houston Texans.
“It’s hard to say right now,” Mahomes said following the game, according to ESPN’s Adam Teicher. “You still [have the] adrenaline rolling and usually it’s kind of the day after when you kind of get a good sense of it. I feel like I could have finished the game in different circumstances, but I thought the smart decision … was to put Carson Wentz in.
“… You just do what you have to do to get back, and I think that’s the most important thing. And now we just get back to the rehab part, the treatment part, and try to get ourselves ready on a short week against a good football team.”
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid confirmed that Mahomes’ ankle was not broken.
“It’s sore and he’ll get started on the rehab part of it as we go, and then we’ll just have to see how he does down the road here,” Reid said. “There was no need for that [putting Mahomes back in the game].”
“He wanted to fight about it, but we’ve got a good support there behind him with Carson and it was good to get him a few reps in there too and let our guys hear that snap count in case he has to go,” Reid said.
“I was trying to run up in the pocket, obviously fourth down, trying to make a play happen,” Mahomes said. “And as I threw the ball, I kind of got hit — and I haven’t seen it — but it felt like someone hit me from behind as well. And so I kind of just got rolled up on. It kind of happens in football, and so I tried to bounce back up, but obviously, it hurt a little bit. But now we’ll just get after the rehab part of it and try to be ready for next week.
“I thought the defense was playing really well, and I wanted to go back out there, and I probably would’ve fought a little bit harder if they would’ve got the game to one score [margin]. But I have a lot of trust in Carson, too. … We put him out there and I thought he did a great job moving the football, running time off the clock and putting us in a position to win the football game.”
“You’ve just got to trust the offense,” Mahomes said. “… I’ve just got to do a better job of going through my progressions and trusting the offense, getting the ball out of my hands and letting guys make plays. And my nature is to try to make the big play happen, and sometimes defenses stop that, and then when it’s not there, go for the underneath stuff and keep it moving.”
