The Kansas City Chiefs earned their twelfth regular-season victory against the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday Night Football in Week 14 when replacement kicker Matthew Wright nailed a walk-off field goal as time expired in the fourth quarter of the primetime matchup.
The game was hotly contested and ended in with a 19-17 final score in Kansas City’s favor that clinched the Chiefs their ninth consecutive regular-season win.
Kansas City trailed Los Angeles when the Chiefs took possession on the game’s final drive and a masterful series by Patrick Mahomes got Wright in range for an easy chip-in game-winner.
By orchestrating Kansas City’s comeback effort against the Chargers, Mahomes passed Aaron Rodgers for the most victories by a quarterback whose team scores fewer than 20 points.
The experts at Pro Football Network pointed out Mahomes’ accomplishment after the game, saying:
“Including the playoffs, Patrick Mahomes (127 career starts, 10 such wins) now has more victories when his team scores fewer than 20 points than Aaron Rodgers (258, nine such wins).”
Though Chiefs fans would certainly prefer that Kansas City wins games in a more convincing manner, they can rest easy knowing that with Mahomes under center, anything is possible.
