Update: Thuney has been ruled out.
The second half of the Week 17 game against the Denver Broncos didn’t get started the way the Kansas City Chiefs had hoped.
After an incomplete pass to a wide-open Skyy Moore on second down, Chiefs LG Joe Thuney suffered an apparent injury on the ensuing play. The Broncos pushed the pocked and several bodies piled up as they tried to get to Patrick Mahomes. When players began to get up, Thuney remained down on the field.
Thuney was helped off the field by Creed Humphrey and Trey Smith. The training staff worked on his ankle on the sideline — perhaps the same ankle that he injured against the Buffalo Bills back in Week 6. That injury has nagged him all season and he eventually missed some time with it in Week 12 and Week 13. They eventually retapped his ankle and he was out on the field for the ensuing offensive series.
They’d eventually replace Thuney with Nick Allegretti and rule Thuney questionable to return to the game.
G Joe Thuney is questionable to return with an ankle injury. pic.twitter.com/EzsQvrJNsC
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) January 1, 2023
The fact that Thuney was able to return to the game is a positive sign as far as his outlook for the postseason is concerned. I think it’s a safe bet that at a minimum, Thuney will be held out of the Week 18 finale against the Las Vegas Raiders next week.
