On Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs completed the 2023 regular season with a 13-12 road win over the Los Angeles Chargers. Seven starters who dressed for the Week 18 game — whose result could have no bearing on the postseason — didn’t play a single snap.
Five more starters were on the Kansas City sideline in street clothes. One of those was quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
“I’m getting old, man,” the 28-year-old father of two joked to reporters on Tuesday. “I need a break every once in a while.”
But Mahomes spoke seriously, too.