Three-time Super Bowl winner Patrick Mahomes will not play in the NFL postseason for the first time in his career, as the Kansas City Chiefs have been eliminated from play-off contention.
Sunday’s 16-13 loss at home to the Los Angeles Chargers means that, despite having three regular-season games remaining, the Chiefs will miss the play-offs for the first time in 11 years.
Head coach Andy Reid has led the Chiefs to the postseason in each of the last 10 seasons and to the Super Bowl in five of the last six.
They won the NFL championship game in 2020, 2023 and 2024, and were denied the first Super Bowl three-peat last February.
Mahomes, 30, became the Chiefs’ starting quarterback in 2018 and has reached at least the AFC Championship game in each of the last seven seasons, a streak surpassed only by the New England Patriots (2011-2018).
The Chiefs also produced the second-longest postseason in NFL history behind the Patriots (2009-2019).
