With 9:55 to go in the second quarter of Sunday's Chiefs-Texans divisional game, Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes let out a fist pump, more than a year in waiting. At one point during Mahomes's injury-interrupted year, the Chiefs QB feared that his season might have been over. He admitted weeks after the injury that he was still frustrated by last season's conference championship loss to the Patriots. That he felt like this season he was actually playing better than he was in his MVP-winning 2018 campaign.
But through one quarter of play on Sunday's against Houston, Mahomes and the Chiefs had failed to score.