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Patrick Mahomes suffered a devastating knee wounded that ended his 2025 play and wholly crushed nan hopes of nan Kansas City Chiefs of making nan playoffs.
Mahomes suffered nan injury connected Dec. 14, 2025, successful Week 15 against nan Los Angeles Chargers. A torn ACL usually takes astir 9 months for astir athletes to retrieve from and return to nan athletics that they play. It would pin Mahomes’ return to astir Week 1 of nan 2026 season.
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Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes (15) walks connected nan section anterior to nan crippled against nan Dallas Cowboys astatine AT&T Stadium connected Nov. 27, 2025. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)
While his position for nan commencement of nan 2026 regular play is still up successful nan air, nan prima backmost posted a video that would get immoderate NFL instrumentality excited for his return to nan field.
"QB1 backmost successful nan lab," the Chiefs wrote connected X.
The video showed Mahomes dropping backmost and throwing a football. He was seen pinch a achromatic compression sleeve connected his leg. It was only a six-second clip, but he appeared to beryllium making bully advancement successful his rehab process.
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Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes (15) throws a walk against nan Dallas Cowboys during nan 4th fourth astatine AT&T Stadium connected Nov. 27, 2025. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)
Mahomes addressed his position successful January erstwhile nan play was finished.
"First off, rehab is going awesome truthful far. I’ve been hitting each nan checkpoints that nan expert wants you to do and getting nan spot and nan scope of mobility back," Mahomes said. "So, that’s been going great. I’ve been doing each of it present successful Kansas City truthful far. (Assistant diversion trainer) Julie (Frymyer) has been crushing it, pushing me. The expert benignant of gives you goals to get to, and I conscionable effort to maximize those, and they clasp maine backmost because I ever want to spell a small spot further. It’s been going great.
"I deliberation nan long-term, I want to beryllium fresh for Week 1. The expert says that I could be, but I can’t foretell what’s going to hap passim nan process but that’s my goal, truthful I’ll effort to hole myself to beryllium fresh to play successful that Week 1 and person nary restrictions. You want to beryllium retired location patient and giving america nan champion chance to win. Obviously, I dream to beryllium capable to do immoderate worldly successful OTAs and get to training campy and hopefully beryllium capable to do a batch there. I’m excited for nan process. It’s a agelong process, but I’m excited for it."
Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes grabs his knee aft being injured during nan 2nd half of an NFL shot crippled against nan Los Angeles Chargers, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025 successful Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)
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The Chiefs traded for Justin Fields this period to adhd extent astatine nan backmost position.
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