Chiefs' Reid: Mahomes avoided major damage to other ligaments - ESPN

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A day after the Kansas City Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes suffered a season-ending torn ACL in his left knee, coach Andy Reid shared that the MRI scan Sunday night revealed that the star quarterback didn't have any major damage to other ligaments.

Reid also said that Mahomes is heading to Dallas to get a second opinion on his knee from Dr. Daniel Cooper, the Dallas Cowboys' head team physician. Mahomes is expected to have surgery later this week.

«He'll attack it, just like he does everything else,» Reid said of Mahomes' upcoming rehab. «There have been some pretty good quarterbacks who have had the same injury, and they've done pretty well after they came back. He'll get after it, and he's got good people here to rehab him. He'll be right on top of all of that.

»As long as the surgery goes well, as expected, then I would expect a fairly quick recovery for him, just because of those factors."

Mahomes sustained his injury with less than two minutes remaining in Sunday's 16-13 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, a result that ended the Chiefs' playoff hopes.

In an effort to rally the Chiefs, he scrambled out of the pocket, rolling to his right while he was chased down by defensive end Da'Shawn Hand. Once Mahomes planted his left foot and threw the ball away for an incompletion, his left knee buckled. After he fell to the turf, Mahomes immediately grabbed his left knee and winced in pain.

«Don't know why this had to happen,» Mahomes wrote on social media. «And not going to lie, [it] hurts. But all we can do now is [trust] in God and attack every single day over and over again. Thank you, Chiefs kingdom, for always supporting me and for everyone who has reached out and sent prayers. I [will] be back stronger than