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Patrick Mahomes suffered an injury to his throwing arm late in the first half Sunday against the New York Jets at Arrowhead Stadium.
Mahomes cocked his right arm back to launch a deep throw, but edge rusher David Bailey beat Jaylon Moore around the right edge and hit Mahomes’ arm as he tried to bring it forward.
The result of the play was a fumble, which Will McDonald recovered at the Kansas City 30-yard line with 93 seconds remaining and New York down 14-12.
As he lay on the ground, Mahomes pulled his right arm to his chest, and he was slow to get up.
Several teammates escorted Mahomes, whose right arm was hanging limp at his side, toward the Chiefs’ bench.
Once there, Mahomes gingerly played catch and spoke briefly with Kansas City’s medical staff.
It was Bailey's second sack of the game. The No. 2 overall pick in last April’s draft now has 7 1/2 in his rookie season.
After a Chris Jones sack and Jason Sanders missed field goal — the first by an opposing kicker since Nov. 2, 2025, a span of 41 consecutive made field goals, including his four earlier in the half — Mahomes returned to the field without missing a snap.
“He had hurt his elbow region there, and but came back was able to come back and get back in it,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said.
He completed a 12-yard pass to Travis Kelce, then had a 7-yard scramble before Harrison Butker ended the half with two straight missed field goals.
Mahomes finished the game, but his status will be worth monitoring as the week goes along.
“We'll see how he does," Reid said. "I'm sure he's going to be sore tomorrow.”
Butker hung a 56-yard try wide right by inches outside the upright, but he got a reprieve when New York was flagged for offsides.
Given a second chance, Butker failed to adjust and left the subsequent 51-yard attempt wide to the right as well, leaving Kansas City’s lead at 14-12 at intermission.
Butker is now 2-for-8 on field-goal tries from 50-plus yards this season and 12-of-19 overall.
Mahomes tried to encourage Butker after he was booed on an extra-point try later in the game.
“That we have confidence in him; that's pretty much it, man,” Mahomes said of his message to Butker in that moment. “I've seen them make field goals at the biggest stages that you can make in this league, so I want him to know that I have as much confidence in him as I ever have and just try to give him that that vote of confidence there at that moment.”
The Chiefs made headlines — in a mostly negative way — by signing former Baltimore kicker Justin Tucker to the practice squad late last month.
Tucker was cut by the Ravens in 2024 and suspended for 10 games last season as a free agent after being accused of sexual misconduct by 16 massage therapists in the Baltimore area. He was never charged with a crime.
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