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Bills at Chiefs: Tuesday injury update for QB Patrick Mahomes

Injury update for Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes ahead of AFC Championship Game vs. Buffalo Bills.

As anticipated, Tuesday is another day and now we have new injury update for quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who, if healthy, will lead the Chiefs against the Bills on Sunday during the AFC Championship Game.

In the latest chapter, Mahomes’ status was considered to be improving via a report from ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Mahomes reportedly took “some big steps” in regard to the concussion he suffered on Sunday against the Browns. Mahomes remains in the NFL’s concussion protocol, but he’s, at least currently, trending in the right direction and “is expected to practice Wednesday.”

If Mahomes does practice, that likely means his other ailment, his toe injury, is good to go as well.

On Monday, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid updated the quarterback’s health and called that lower-body issue “all right there.” On the concussion, Reid tip-toed around updating anything with that.

Mahomes exited Sunday’s game in the third quarter. Chad Henne replaced Mahomes in the Chiefs lineup and helped hold onto the lead to send his team to Sunday’s meeting with the Bills.

Stay tuned to Bills Wire throughout the week for the latest injury updates involving both the Bills and Chiefs ahead of the AFC Championship Game.

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Bills DE Jerry Hughes had to cancel his party & he’s fine with that

Jerry Hughes won a football game, and in the process, also canceled a yearly tradition of his.

Jerry Hughes won a football game, and in the process, also canceled a yearly tradition of his.

First it should be known, he’s dealing with it pretty well.

On Saturday, the Bills topped the Ravens 17-3 in the AFC Divisional round. Hughes had two sacks in the game and an all-around strong effort.

That victory sends the Bills on a path leading to the Chiefs in the AFC title game next weekend. It’ll be the first time Hughes, the longest-tenured member of the Bills, plays in that game. Considering that, Hughes usually hosts a party and invites teammates over to watch the game each year for Championship Sunday.

Kind of hard to do that when he’s literally going to be at the game playing in it… a very welcomed change of pace for him.

“I was telling the guys, finally I don’t have to host the AFC Championship at my house. People can actually sit back and they gotta watch me,” Hughes said via video conference. “The text messages are flying on my phone right now, ‘What do we do?!’… For 11 years they’ve been coming over. So now? Man, this is a great feeling. The guys in our locker room, it’s something that we talked about back in April.”

It doesn’t sound like his teammates are too upset, either.

“Jerry is just one of those vets that does his job. We respect him. He’s one of those guys that you just love having on your squad,” quarterback Josh Allen said on his video conference, reflecting on Hughes’ two-sack outing. “For him to go out there and play the way he did… the way our defense stopped the run, the game plan was executed to perfection.”

Jokes aside about the party or lack thereof, Bills head coach Sean McDermott also put things into perspective for his team on Monday. The party was canceled on a moments notice, but the path to doing so was a long one.

“That’s what you work for all season, to get here, where we are right now. We have a mature, professional, group of players. They’re well aware of what the next step could be. But if you don’t focus on this step, you won’t get to the next step, and I think our players understand that,” McDermott said.

Now it’s time for Hughes to make canceling his party worthwhile.

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Bills DE Jerry Hughes had to cancel his party & he’s fine with that

Jerry Hughes won a football game, and in the process, also canceled a yearly tradition of his.

Jerry Hughes won a football game, and in the process, also canceled a yearly tradition of his.

First it should be known, he’s dealing with it pretty well.

On Saturday, the Bills topped the Ravens 17-3 in the AFC Divisional round. Hughes had two sacks in the game and an all-around strong effort.

Kind of hard to do that when he’s literally going to be at the game playing in it… a very welcomed change of pace for him.

It doesn’t sound like his teammates are too upset, either.

Now it’s time for Hughes to make canceling his party worthwhile.

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Bills explain passing the ball so much vs. Ravens, early plans vs. Chiefs

Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll on passing ball and game plan vs. Baltimore Ravens, look ahead to Chiefs.

The case can be made that the Bills offense starts and ends with quarterback Josh Allen each and every game. Perhaps that’s true, but no game displayed this more than their AFC Divisional round meeting against the Ravens.

In their 17-3 win, the Bills came out and called 20-straight passing plays. The only rush among all of those was a scramble from Allen on a passing play that broke down.

On Monday, Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll said via video conference that decision to call plays in such a manner came down to two factors. First, Allen’s abilities. Second, the Ravens defense.

“We weren’t afraid to throw the ball. We did it… I don’t know how many times in a row… and that’s because we have a lot of confidence in him. The whole football team does,” Daboll said. “(Allen) played the way he needed to play to help us win the game.”

“You watch Baltimore play Tennessee and Derrick Henry and what they did, so you’re not going to try and bang your head against a wall,” Daboll added.

Good points all around by Daboll, but one could argue that giving Devin Singletary some kind of workload on a handful of plays might’ve helped build momentum for him and keep the Ravens defense a bit more honest when Allen drops back. Hindsight is 20/20 though, and the Bills still won, after all.

In that same mindset, it sounds like Buffalo shouldn’t get used to seeing such a game plan. Ahead of facing the Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game, Daboll already said that the running game will be “important part for us” this week.

“Kansas City is good at both [run and pass defense] and we’re going to have to be good at both of them,” Daboll said.

But using the run won’t just be the only thing the Bills will have to do… they’ll have to improve upon doing it as well. The Bills and Chiefs first faced off in Week 6 and the running game played a huge part.

Kansas City had 245 rushing yards to Buffalo’s 84. The Bills’ running back duo of Singletary and Zack Moss averaged 2.8 yards per carry in that 26-17 loss.

In potentially attempting to do both of those things on Sunday, Singletary has already expressed his confidence in Buffalo having a better run-game production vs. KC.

“That was kind of early on. I feel we grew a lot since then, came together a lot. We just a better offense since then,” Singletary said following the Ravens win.

Allen himself acknowledged it probably won’t be all on him moving forward, either.

“It’s going to take everyone moving forward,” Allen said via video conference postgame. “Guys have to step up and make plays for us.”

Then again, maybe it’s just a smokescreen we’re seeing from Daboll…? We’ll find out on Sunday.

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Bills explain passing the ball so much vs. Ravens, early plans vs. Chiefs

Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll on passing ball and game plan vs. Baltimore Ravens, look ahead to Chiefs.

In their 17-3 win, the Bills came out and called 20-straight passing plays. The only rush among all of those was a scramble from Allen on a passing play that broke down.

On Monday, Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll said via video conference that decision came down to two factors. First, Allen’s abilities. Second, the Ravens defense.