Even because the two-time defending Tremendous Bowl champion Kansas Metropolis Chiefs often gained recreation after recreation this season, there was some concern as they had been successful most of these video games by the pores and skin of their tooth.
Now, there’s some true concern after quarterback Patrick Mahomes suffered a excessive ankle sprain within the Week 15 win towards the Cleveland Browns.
If he’s unable to play in Week 16 towards the Houston Texans, Carson Wentz will begin for Kansas Metropolis.
Wentz is a stable backup, and Chiefs head coach Andy Reid stated he deserves to be a starter within the NFL.
“I like all the things about him, he needs to be beginning on this league someplace,” Reid stated, through Sports activities Radio 810 WHB.
Andy Reid talks about #Chiefs QB Carson Wentz: “I like all the things about him, he needs to be beginning on this league someplace.” pic.twitter.com/Byj8zoHg81
— Sports activities Radio 810 WHB (@SportsRadio810) December 17, 2024
As just lately as 2017, his second season within the NFL, Wentz was beginning for a Philadelphia Eagles workforce that gained 11 of its first 13 video games.
Sadly, he tore his ACL in Week 14, after which needed to watch as Nick Foles took his place and helped the Eagles win the Tremendous Bowl towards Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.
Over the following few years, Wentz’s NFL viability took some hits resulting from extra accidents, and after the Washington Commanders launched him following the 2022 season, he wasn’t signed till November of final yr when the Los Angeles Rams picked him up.
Nearing his thirty second birthday, if he does effectively rather than Mahomes, it might act as an audition for a beginning job someplace in 2025.
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