{"id":2963,"date":"2023-10-20T07:45:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T04:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/2963\/chiefs-open-to-letting-patrick\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T07:45:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T04:45:31","slug":"chiefs-open-to-letting-patrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=2963","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs open to letting Patrick Mahomes punt if needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chiefs open to letting Patrick Mahomes punt if needed\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Adam Teicher, ESPN editor<span class=\"timestamp \">October 19, 2023, 8:23 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\">Close<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Covered the Chiefs for 20 seasons for the Kansas City Star<\/li>\n<li>Joined ESPN in 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 With regular punter Tommy Townsend doubtful for last week&#8217;s game due to a knee injury, the Chiefs almost had to call on their backup when they faced the Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n<p>This backup plan?  Quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/2504\/patrick-mahomes-eyes-nfl-team\/\">Patrick Mahomes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Mahomes] is our backup punter,&#8221; special teams coach Dave Toub said. &#8220;He could do it.  He shows me all the time that he&#8217;s there [at practice].  Boom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Choice<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Against the Broncos, Townsend played through his injury, scoring three times for an average of 48 yards, so Mahomes wasn&#8217;t needed.  But Townsend is again on this week&#8217;s injury report, even though Toub seemed confident he would be able to play Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes last punted in a high school game.  At Whitehouse High in Texas, he threw 29 times for an average of 37.8 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs have used unusual players in their kicking game before.  Last season, safety Justin Reid replaced the injured Harrison Butker in <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/week\/\"   title=\"Week\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Week<\/a> 1 and made 1 of 2 extra point attempts in the first half before Butker returned to the game in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiefs open to letting Patrick Mahomes punt if needed\u060c Adam Teicher, ESPN editorOctober 19, 2023, 8:23 p.m. Close Covered the Chiefs for 20 seasons for the Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 With regular punter Tommy Townsend doubtful for last week&#8217;s game due to a knee injury, the Chiefs almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[354,2278,893,2903,64,892,2902],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-chiefs","tag-letting","tag-mahomes","tag-needed","tag-open","tag-patrick","tag-punt"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}