Patrick Mahomes, three-time champion quarterback with the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, said this Thursday that he had a feeling of guilt for the injury he caused last Sunday to his teammate, star receiver Rashee Rice.
“I was never really worried about myself. I was worried about his injury and now I just hope it wasn’t as bad as it looked at the end of the game because I was the one who hit him,” Mahomes said at a news conference.
The three-time Most Valuable Player in four of the three Super Bowls he has played for the Chiefs, was the cause of what was initially thought to be a torn anterior cruciate ligament in Rice’s knee, in the game of the Week 4 of the campaign in which the Chiefs beat the Chargers 17-10.
Caused because on one play Mahomes made a mistake when looking for his receivers and was intercepted. When Kristian Fulton of the Chargers recovered the ball, he tried to reach the end zone and in his attempt to stop him Patrick collided with the knee of Rashee Rice, who had to leave the game.
Rice, after falling injured
The Chiefs’ medical staff is confident that the injury does not comply with the initial diagnosis, they are still waiting for the inflammation in the knee to go down to do more studies on their receiver, while this happens, this Thursday Rice was placed on injured reserve that It will leave him out of action for at least the next four games.
In the hands of doctors
In his appearance before the media, Andy Reid, the team’s coach, was cautious about how long he expects his player to be out of action.
“I think what we have to do is wait, let the doctors do their job and, for their sake, we really hope that things turn out the best for everyone. I’m not a doctor and I’m going to leave everything in their hands,” the coach stated.
In the four weeks of the season in which the Chiefs are undefeated, Rice was the team’s leading receiver with 24 receptions, for 288 yards and two visits to the end zone.
His loss will be sensitive in an offense that also has Hollywood Brown, another of its receivers, and Isiah Pacheco, its star in the running attack, injured. In week 5 of the season the Chiefs will host the New Orleans Saints this Monday.
