Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce is hardly ever upset with future Hall of Fame quarterback Patrick Mahomes; after all, the former MVP has connected with the tight end for 55 touchdowns.
However, Kelce couldn’t help but angrily raise his hands toward Mahomes after an errant throw late in the third quarter in the Chiefs’ narrow 30-27 victory against the Carolina Panthers.
On a first-and-10 from the Carolina 30, Mahomes rolled right and immediately dealt with pressure in his face. Kelce stopped about eight yards down the field—presumably running a stick route—before finding the pass coming his way about a yard to his right. It clunked off the tips of his bright yellow gloves and onto the turf.
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After raising his hands in the direction of Mahomes, he stuck his mouthguard in his helmet and mouthed an expletive to the camera. “Always expect the ball from Patrick Mahomes,” Charles Davis said on the CBS broadcast.
Kelce finished the day with six catches for 62 yards in the victory. He passed Antonio Gates to move into third place all-time for the most receiving yards by a tight end in NFL history.
The 35-year-old veteran with 11,854 yards trails only Tony Gonzalez (15,127) and Jason Witten (13,046) on the all-time list.
Mahomes completed 27 of his 37 passes for 269 yards and a trio of touchdowns on the day. He added 60 yards on the ground, including a clutch 33-yard scramble to set up a go-ahead 31-yard Spencer Shrader walk-off field goal.
The pair have been teammates since Mahomes’s rookie season in 2017. The longtime Kansas City quarterback had nothing but praise when asked to describe his veteran tight end ahead of Super Bowl LVIII.
“It’s [his] energy,” Mahomes said. “People don’t even see it at practice. The energy that he has … we have to get him out of practice just to give him a rest and he wants to be out there for every single play.
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“That mindset, when you see the Hall of Fame tight end and he wants to be the guy working the hardest, it raises everybody’s standard,” he continued.
“It raises the standard of how you practice. It raises the standards of how you prepare because you know that guy that’s done it at the top level wants to continue to do it every single week, every single day.”
Kansas City will look to build upon their NFL-best 10-1 record when they host the struggling 2-9 Las Vegas Raiders next Sunday.
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