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The Kansas City Chiefs suffered a pair of big losses on Sunday when they were eliminated from the playoffs and star quarterback Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL.
The Los Angeles Chargers beat the Chiefs 16-13 at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday, but the biggest loss was Mahomes’ devastating injury.
Travis Kelce reacted to the injury by saying “shit, it just sucks.”
“We lost our quarterback, Patty Mahomes, our guy, our brother, our fearless leader, our face of the franchise, to an ACL. It’s never easy to see your guys go down. We had a bunch of guys get hurt in the last game, and we fought. We fought, some guys fought about some things,” Kelce said during a recent episode of his podcast, “New Heights.”
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Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is on the field after the Los Angeles Chargers game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 14, 2025. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“On a weird play, seeing (Mahomes) go down like that guy, it was fucking, it was almost like it wasn’t real and it just sucks, man. For a guy that puts so much and puts his body on the line week in and week out and does this football world, he makes the best of it because of how hard he works, and it sucks.”
Mahomes was hurt late in the fourth quarter as the team trailed 16-13 and was trying to come back, and backup Gardner Minshew entered the game. Kelce praised Minshew for fighting, even though the backup threw the interception that sealed the game and ended the Chiefs’ playoff hopes.
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Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce walks off the field after losing to the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, in Kansas City. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)
Kelce had seven receptions for 70 yards in the Chiefs’ loss to the Chargers. In 14 games this season, the 10-time Pro Bowler has 67 receptions for 797 yards and five touchdowns.
It is the first time the Chiefs have missed the playoffs since 2014, and Kelce, in his 13th season, noted that he is the only player on the roster to have played in a regular-season game that did not have playoff implications.
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Mahomes underwent surgery on both his ACL and ACL on Monday, and the recovery timeline gives the Chiefs hope he can be on the field at the start of next season.
However, he will not be on the field for the team’s final three games of the year. The Chiefs’ next game will be against the lowly Tennessee Titans (2-12) at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday.
