A turf toe injury to Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes helped put a damper on the team’s postseason run in 2020. The star QB had surgery to repair the injury in February and has been ahead of schedule in his recovery all offseason.
When mandatory minicamp broke, Mahomes was aiming to be ready to go with no limitations for training camp in late July. During a break from Thursday’s practice round at the American Century Championship, Mahomes reiterated in an interview for NFL Network that he’s feeling good and expects to be ready for training camp and the start of the 2021 NFL season.
“The toe’s feeling great,” Mahomes said, via NFL.com. “I’m out here playing golf, being able to walk around the course. I’ve been running, cutting, jumping, throwing, doing it all. So I’m just excited to get back to training camp and have another chance to make a run at it and win the Super Bowl this year.”
The offseason hasn’t been much different for Mahomes in light of his injury. The main differences that he’s noticed come from the “Run It Back” tour falling short. Like most of the great ones, Mahomes has a short memory and he’s already turned his attention toward getting to Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles.
“It’s different in the sense that you don’t have the parades and all that different type of stuff,” Mahomes said of the offseason, via NFL.com. “But I think the beautiful thing about the NFL is every single year, you start from scratch. You have to come in, you have to put in the work to try to get to the big game and try to win it. And so for us, win or lose that Super Bowl the last two years, we still have that same mentality of we’re going to start from scratch and build and try to find a way to get back to that game.”
The foundation for another run at the Super Bowl has already been set for the Chiefs and Mahomes during OTAs and minicamp. The rest of the work will be done when the team reports to training camp and the pads come on later this month.
You can watch the full interview with Mahomes tonight at 6:00 p.m. CT on NFL Network’s “NFL Total Access.”