Quarterback Patrick Mahomes battled through his high ankle sprain to lead the Kansas City Chiefs to a 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship game on Sunday, thereby booking his team’s place in Super Bowl LVII.

“People don’t realize how hurt he was,” Kansas City general manager Brett Veach said of Mahomes. “We all saw the injury. High ankles are terrible injuries, and sometimes guys miss two, three weeks, and he was out there and running for a first down and a big play in the game that got us in field goal range. But it just adds to an already great legacy.”

Mahomes was injured during his team’s victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars a week ago. Despite incurring the injury midgame, Mahomes pushed through to see out the remainder of the contest and went on to state his intention to play in the following game against the Bengals.

Despite playing through injury, the Chiefs quarterback made 29-of-43 passing while fumbling the ball just once throughout the game against the Bengals. In addition, he performed his final snap 17 seconds before the end of the game, thereby handing his team a last-minute victory.

Kansas City will face the Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl LVII on Sunday.

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Kansas City Chiefs’ postseason run seemed over just one quarter into their Sunday’s AFC Divisional Round game against Houston Texans. They made some costly mistakes and fell behind 21 points, facing the inevitable end of their efforts to reach the Super Bowl. Then the Texans scored a field goal to open the second quarter, and Chiefs looked like they have no chance of getting back into the game. But Kansas City’s offense and quarterback Patrick Mahomes didn’t intend to give up just yet.

Following Houston’s FG score, Chiefs responded with a monstrous second quarter in which they scored 28 unanswered points and entered the halftime with a 28-24 lead. En route to comeback, Mahomes tied the NFL record with four touchdown passes in one quarter.

Chiefs continued in the same manner in the second half, scoring 13 more points before Texans responded with a touchdown. But Houston couldn’t do much more, and Kansas City cruised to end the game with 51-31 written on the scoreboard. This was the first time in the history of NFL playoffs that one team won the contest by 20 points after trailing 20 points at one moment.

“These are things that we haven’t done,” Reid said. “That’s not us, right? It was just a matter of settling it down and calming the storm and making sure that our guys knocked whatever rust off and calmed down and made plays. We’ve been doing that all year, and it was important we got back to doing that. We were able to rebound. A lot of teams can’t do that.”

Kansas City Chiefs will now face the Tennessee Titans, who previously upset top-seeded Baltimore Ravens, in the AFC Championship game next weekend.

In the second Sunday’s game, Green Bay Packers defeated Settle Seahawks 28-23 and will face San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game.

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Quarterback Patrick Mahomes battled through his high ankle sprain to lead the Kansas City Chiefs to a 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship game on Sunday, thereby booking his team’s place in Super Bowl LVII.

“People don’t realize how hurt he was,” Kansas City general manager Brett Veach said of Mahomes. “We all saw the injury. High ankles are terrible injuries, and sometimes guys miss two, three weeks, and he was out there and running for a first down and a big play in the game that got us in field goal range. But it just adds to an already great legacy.”

Mahomes was injured during his team’s victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars a week ago. Despite incurring the injury midgame, Mahomes pushed through to see out the remainder of the contest and went on to state his intention to play in the following game against the Bengals.

Despite playing through injury, the Chiefs quarterback made 29-of-43 passing while fumbling the ball just once throughout the game against the Bengals. In addition, he performed his final snap 17 seconds before the end of the game, thereby handing his team a last-minute victory.

Kansas City will face the Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl LVII on Sunday.

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Kansas City Chiefs’ postseason run seemed over just one quarter into their Sunday’s AFC Divisional Round game against Houston Texans. They made some costly mistakes and fell behind 21 points, facing the inevitable end of their efforts to reach the Super Bowl. Then the Texans scored a field goal to open the second quarter, and Chiefs looked like they have no chance of getting back into the game. But Kansas City’s offense and quarterback Patrick Mahomes didn’t intend to give up just yet.

Following Houston’s FG score, Chiefs responded with a monstrous second quarter in which they scored 28 unanswered points and entered the halftime with a 28-24 lead. En route to comeback, Mahomes tied the NFL record with four touchdown passes in one quarter.

Chiefs continued in the same manner in the second half, scoring 13 more points before Texans responded with a touchdown. But Houston couldn’t do much more, and Kansas City cruised to end the game with 51-31 written on the scoreboard. This was the first time in the history of NFL playoffs that one team won the contest by 20 points after trailing 20 points at one moment.

“These are things that we haven’t done,” Reid said. “That’s not us, right? It was just a matter of settling it down and calming the storm and making sure that our guys knocked whatever rust off and calmed down and made plays. We’ve been doing that all year, and it was important we got back to doing that. We were able to rebound. A lot of teams can’t do that.”

Kansas City Chiefs will now face the Tennessee Titans, who previously upset top-seeded Baltimore Ravens, in the AFC Championship game next weekend.

In the second Sunday’s game, Green Bay Packers defeated Settle Seahawks 28-23 and will face San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game.

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