Patrick Mahomes throwing football again three months after ACL tear

Patrick Mahomes suffered a devastating genu wounded that ended his 2025 play and wholly crushed the hopes of the Kansas City Chiefs of making the playoffs.

Mahomes suffered the wounded connected Dec. 14, 2025, successful Week 15 against the Los Angeles Chargers. A torn ACL usually takes astir 9 months for astir athletes to retrieve from and instrumentality to the athletics that they play. It would pin Mahomes’ instrumentality to astir Week 1 of the 2026 season.

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Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes (15) walks connected the tract anterior to the crippled against the Dallas Cowboys astatine AT&T Stadium connected Nov. 27, 2025.  (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)

While his presumption for the commencement of the 2026 regular play is inactive up successful the air, the prima backmost posted a video that would get immoderate NFL instrumentality excited for his instrumentality to the field.

"QB1 backmost successful the lab," the Chiefs wrote connected X.

The video showed Mahomes dropping backmost and throwing a football. He was seen with a achromatic compression sleeve connected his leg. It was lone a six-second clip, but helium appeared to beryllium making bully advancement successful his rehab process.

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Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes (15) throws a walk against the Dallas Cowboys during the 4th fourth astatine AT&T Stadium connected Nov. 27, 2025.  (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)

Mahomes addressed his presumption successful January erstwhile the play was finished.

"First off, rehab is going large truthful far. I’ve been hitting each the checkpoints that the doc wants you to bash and getting the spot and the scope of mobility back," Mahomes said. "So, that’s been going great. I’ve been doing each of it present successful Kansas City truthful far. (Assistant diversion trainer) Julie (Frymyer) has been crushing it, pushing me. The doc benignant of gives you goals to get to, and I conscionable effort to maximize those, and they clasp maine backmost due to the fact that I ever privation to spell a small spot further. It’s been going great.

"I deliberation the long-term, I privation to beryllium acceptable for Week 1. The doc says that I could be, but I can’t foretell what’s going to hap passim the process but that’s my goal, truthful I’ll effort to hole myself to beryllium acceptable to play successful that Week 1 and person nary restrictions. You privation to beryllium retired determination steadfast and giving america the champion accidental to win. Obviously, I anticipation to beryllium capable to bash immoderate worldly successful OTAs and get to grooming campy and hopefully beryllium capable to bash a batch there. I’m excited for the process. It’s a agelong process, but I’m excited for it."

Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes grabs his genu aft being injured during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Los Angeles Chargers, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025 successful Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)

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The Chiefs traded for Justin Fields this period to adhd extent astatine the backmost position.

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