The injury definitely comes at an inopportune time for the Chiefs, who just started a span of playing three games in 10 days. In the days leading up to the Browns game, Mahomes had actually complained about the fact that the NFL was forcing his team to play three games between Dec. 15 and Dec. 25.

"His right ankle has been hurt, it's not broken, but it's sore,'' Chiefs coach Andy Reid says about Patrick Mahomes. "He'll get started on the rehab part of it as we go, and then we'll just have to see how he does.