Chiefs eradicated from NFL playoffs as Patrick Mahomes exits with harm

The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on Sunday have been eradicated from playoff competition. Their 10-year streak of constructing the playoffs is over. Their nine-year streak of profitable the AFC West has come to an finish. And their streak of constructing the AFC title sport in yearly of Patrick Mahomes‘ profession and the Tremendous Bowl in every of the earlier three seasons are completed as effectively.

The Chiefs have been eradicated by advantage of their loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, the Buffalo Payments‘ victory over the New England Patriots, the Jacksonville Jaguars‘ win over the New York Jets and the Houston Texans‘ win over the Arizona Cardinals. They got here into the day with solely the slimmest of playoff hopes, however these hopes have been dashed as they fell 16-13 in a tightly-contested, defense-dominated sport towards their division rivals. 

The loss was Kansas Metropolis’s seventh one-score defeat of the season, with the Chiefs persevering with to battle in shut contests only a 12 months after dominating such video games by going 11-0 in them throughout the 2024 common season. The Chiefs have been at one level 5-3 and seemingly recovered from their chilly begin to the season, however they misplaced 5 out of six video games to fall all the best way out of competition.

Worse but, Mahomes limped off the sector late within the sport with what seemed to be a severe knee harm. Mahomes was down and in ache for a number of minutes and finally needed to be helped into the locker room by the coaching employees. Gardner Minshew entered in his place and performed out the ultimate drive for the Chiefs, solely to be intercepted on his closing go try of the sport, sealing each the loss and the Chiefs’ destiny.