If you sighed, gasped, cursed or prayed when Patrick Mahomes suffered a ghastly-looking ankle injury late in the first quarter of the Chiefs’ AFC Divisional Round game against Jacksonville on Saturday at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, you were in good company.
The transcendent Mahomes, after all, ultimately is what has distinguished the Chiefs from about everybody else in the NFL these last five seasons. So what Chiefs fan didn’t fear the worst in the moment? Both for Mahomes’ health, Saturday and beyond, and the team’s prospects of securing its fifth straight AFC Championship Game berth.
But maybe we should have known better by now.
