Quarterback Patrick Mahomes suffered a serious knee damage because the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs have been dominated out of the NFL play-offs for the primary time for the reason that 2014 season.

Sunday’s 16-13 loss at residence to the Los Angeles Chargers signifies that, regardless of having three common season video games remaining, the Chiefs have already been eradicated from play-off rivalry.

Mahomes, 30, was compelled off with lower than two minutes left and his workforce later confirmed the three-time Tremendous Bowl winner has torn the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee.

“Do not know why this needed to occur. And never going to lie it is hurts,” he stated on X., exterior

“However all we are able to do now could be Belief in God and assault each single day again and again.

“Thanks Chiefs kingdom for all the time supporting me and for everybody who has reached out and despatched prayers. I will probably be again stronger than ever.”

Kansas Metropolis’s third loss in a row – and fifth in six video games – left them with a 6-8 file this season and will mark the top of an NFL dynasty.

Head coach Andy Reid has led Kansas Metropolis to the play-offs in every of the previous 10 seasons and to the Tremendous Bowl in 5 of the previous six.

The Chiefs received the NFL’s championship sport in 2020, 2023 and 2024, and have been denied the primary Tremendous Bowl three-peat final February.

Mahomes grew to become their beginning quarterback in 2018 and has reached a minimum of the AFC Championship sport in every of the previous seven seasons, a run bettered solely by Tom Brady’s New England Patriots (2011-2018)

The Chiefs have additionally produced the second-longest post-season run in NFL historical past behind the Patriots (2009-2019).