After battling an ankle injury throughout Saturday’s game against the Jaguars, Patrick Mahomes revealed an ultimatum given to him by the Chiefs after he was forced to miss part of Kansas City’s 27–20 divisional round win.
Mahomes, who was listed as questionable to return shortly after the injury, missed the entire second quarter before returning to finish the game following halftime. After the win, Mahomes revealed during his postgame interview with NBC Sports reporter Melissa Stark that the Chiefs staff gave him an ultimatum after his exit: either go to the locker room or not have a chance to return to the game.
“I did not want to go,” Mahomes told Stark, per Sky Sports. “They kind of gave me the ultimatum of I was not going back in the game unless I went in the locker room—it’s going to take a lot to keep me out of a football game.”
