Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes his ankle is injured as he threw a touchdown pass Monday night, but he stayed in the game and said he was doing well afterward.
“Definitely scary,” Mahomes said. “I think it hurt more just because it’s the same ankle I twisted last week, so it scared me a little bit, but once I took a breath and calmed down a little bit it ended up not being too bad. We went in .” There I got a re-spit and I went back onto the football field.”
Mahomes said he had to argue with both the trainers and coach Andy Reid to assure them he was fine.
“I tried to run off the field and they told me not to do that. It’s just part of the football mentality,” Mahomes said.
Reid initially indicated he would take Mahomes out and bring in backup quarterback Carson Wentz, but Mahomes told Reid he could finish the game.
“He said it and I was like, ‘Come on, we’re not doing this,’” Mahomes said.
Still, Mahomes acknowledged that every time he gets hurt, it worries him in that moment: “You feel the pain, and it scares you.”
Mahomes said he expects the ankle to swell this week, but has no doubt he will be ready to play Sunday against the Broncos.
