Kansas City Chiefs vice president of sports medicine Rick Burkholder made a statement to the news media on Monday afternoon at the team’s practice facility — largely with regard to the dislocated patella (kneecap) Patrick Mahomes suffered while executing a quarterback sneak during the second quarter of the team’s 30-6 defeat of the Denver Broncos on Thursday.
Here’s the short version: the news is good, and Mahomes is already hard at work rehabilitating from the injury.
“You guys saw the game and the video,” Burkholder said. “Dr. Paul Schroeppel reduced the dislocated patella.