Quarterback Patrick Mahomes suffered a serious knee harm because the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs had been dominated out of the NFL play-offs for the primary time because the 2014 season.
Sunday’s 16-13 loss at house to the Los Angeles Chargers signifies that, regardless of having three common season video games remaining, the Chiefs have already been eradicated from play-off competition.
Mahomes, 30, was compelled off with lower than two minutes left and his staff later confirmed the three-time Tremendous Bowl winner has torn the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee.
“Do not know why this needed to occur. And never going to lie it is hurts,” he mentioned on X., exterior
“However all we will do now could be Belief in God and assault each single day over and over.
“Thanks Chiefs kingdom for at all times supporting me and for everybody who has reached out and despatched prayers. I shall be again stronger than ever.”
Kansas Metropolis’s third loss in a row – and fifth in six video games – left them with a 6-8 report this season and will mark the tip of an NFL dynasty.
Head coach Andy Reid has led Kansas Metropolis to the play-offs in every of the previous 10 seasons and to the Tremendous Bowl in 5 of the previous six.
The Chiefs gained the NFL’s championship sport in 2020, 2023 and 2024, and had been denied the primary Tremendous Bowl three-peat final February.
Mahomes grew to become their beginning quarterback in 2018 and has reached at the very least the AFC Championship sport in every of the previous seven seasons, a run bettered solely by Tom Brady’s New England Patriots (2011-2018)
The Chiefs have additionally produced the second-longest post-season run in NFL historical past behind the Patriots (2009-2019).
