KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs put Rashee Rice on injured reserve Thursday, sidelining him for not less than 4 weeks and sure longer, after their main large receiver harm his knee when quarterback Patrick Mahomes collided with him attempting to make a sort out final weekend.
Mahomes had simply thrown an interception to the Chargers’ Kristian Fulton and each gamers have been attempting to chase him down. Rice acquired there first and stripped Fulton of the ball, simply as Mahomes dived towards the pile and hit his teammate simply above his proper knee.
Mahomes mentioned Thursday that he didn’t know he was the one who precipitated the damage till he noticed the replay on the scoreboard. He mentioned he felt dangerous about what occurred.
“I wasn’t actually frightened about myself. I used to be frightened about his damage and hopefully that it wasn’t as dangerous because it regarded,” he mentioned forward of Monday night time’s recreation in opposition to the Saints.
The Chiefs initially have been involved that Rice tore his ACL, which might imply season-ending surgical procedure. However there was no official prognosis, and Chiefs coach Andy Reid mentioned Thursday that the medical workers was ready for the swelling to subside earlier than they do one other spherical of imaging subsequent week to get a fuller image of the harm.
Regardless of leaving the 17-10 win over the Chargers early, Rice nonetheless leads the crew with 28 catches for 288 yards and two TDs.
“We’re actually hoping that issues work out for the perfect, however let’s simply see the place it goes and go away it as much as the docs to see,″ Reid mentioned. “Rashee’s had an exceptional 12 months. Sadly, on this league accidents occur, and life goes on, so we at all times anticipated the subsequent guys to step up and roll and it’s no completely different now.”
The NFL commerce deadline is Nov. 5, so the Chiefs have time to survey the panorama if Rice will miss prolonged time and so they need assist from outdoors the group. In any other case, they’ll lean on JuJu Smith-Schuster and Justin Watson to assist first-round draft choose Xavier Worthy and four-time All-Professional tight finish Travis Kelce choose up the offensive slack.
“There’s not one other Rashee,” Reid acknowledged. “There’s different guys although which might be very, superb, so we’ll be high quality.″
In different information Thursday, the Chiefs opened the three-week follow window for Clyde Edwards-Helaire to return from the non-football damage record. The veteran working again mentioned throughout coaching camp that he has been coping with post-traumatic stress dysfunction from an incident that occurred whereas he was in school.
Edwards-Helaire deliberate to work with the scout crew this week however may assist a backfield lacking Isiah Pacheco to damage.
“We’ll simply get him again into the swing of issues right here and see how he does,″ Reid mentioned. “He’s in good condition. He’s been figuring out. So simply get him again into the soccer (aspect of issues).″
