{"id":296932,"date":"2025-08-18T02:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/296932\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T02:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:48:11","slug":"watch-new-jaguars-dt-khalen-saunders-intercepts-patrick-mahomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/296932\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: New Jaguars&#8217; DT Khalen Saunders intercepts Patrick Mahomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look as new <a href=\"https:\/\/jaguarswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jacksonville Jaguars&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jacksonville Jaguars&#8217;<\/a> defensive tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/jaguars-updated-dt-depth-chart-015038082.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Khalen Saunders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khalen Saunders<\/a> comes away with an impressive interception off Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.<\/p>\n<p>The play occurred in Week 5 of last season. With the Chiefs at the Saints&#8217; two-yard line, Mahomes took the snap, faked the handoff, and looked for JuJu Smith-Schuster on an in-breaking route.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Broken up by the defensive back, the ball went off Smith-Schuster&#8217;s hands, popped into the air, where Saunders was able to make the interception in the end zone. However, Saunders wasn&#8217;t done there as he returned the ball past the Saints&#8217; 35-yard line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was trying to get it home, man. Take it home. Them running back days flashed in my head,&#8221; Saunders said, via the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/khalen-saunders-interception-saints-chiefs-taylor-swift-aa61f126bbb1dd04554f069b6442722d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Associated Press;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Associated Press<\/a>. &#8220;I was like, &#8216;That&#8217;s 101 (yards). That&#8217;s a little ways to go.&#8217; But I was trying to give us some real field position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listed at 324 pounds, Saunders got up to a top speed of 15.79 mph, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/saints-324-pound-dt-khalen-saunders-on-int-them-running-back-days-flashed-in-my-head\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL Next Gen Stats;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NFL Next Gen Stats<\/a>. This was the third fastest speed recorded by a ball carrier who weighs over 320 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Adding to this play is that Saunders is a former teammate of Mahomes, having spent his first four NFL seasons in Kansas City, which includes winning two Super Bowls.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/jaguarswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jaguars\/2025\/08\/17\/watch-new-jaguars-khalen-saunders-intercepts-patrick-mahomes\/85704175007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Khalen Saunders trade: Watch new Jaguars DT intercept Patrick Mahomes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Khalen Saunders trade: Watch new Jaguars DT intercept Patrick Mahomes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Take a look as new Jacksonville Jaguars&#8217; defensive tackle Khalen Saunders comes away with an impressive interception off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,2793,7,125,760,118,110,2438,2437,6210,6,499,3257],"class_list":{"0":"post-296932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-defensive-tackle","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-juju-smith-schuster","13":"tag-kansas-city","14":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","15":"tag-kansascity","16":"tag-kansascitychiefs","17":"tag-khalen-saunders","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-patrick-mahomes","20":"tag-tom-pelissero"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115047491547547872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}