{"id":310038,"date":"2025-08-23T01:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/310038\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T01:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:49:12","slug":"chiefs-vs-bears-mahomes-connects-with-veteran-wr-for-massive-gain-in-preseason-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/310038\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs vs. Bears: Mahomes connects with veteran WR for massive gain in preseason finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star quarterback Patrick Mahomes connected with veteran wide receiver Tyquan Thornton for a 58-yard gain in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>&#8216; preseason finale against the Chicago Bears on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes, who was only expected to see the field for a few drives, wasted no time getting Thornton involved in the passing game, targeting him deep downfield on the Chiefs&#8217; second possession of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Thornton, a former New England Patriot who joined Kansas City&#8217;s practice squad last season, made the most of his opportunity, making a diving effort to reel in Mahomes&#8217; pass.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this video of Thornton&#8217;s impressive catch, which was posted to Twitter by the Chiefs&#8217; official account:<\/p>\n<p>While Thornton entered the preseason with a slim chance of cracking Kansas City&#8217;s 53-man roster, this play may be enough to convince the Chiefs&#8217; coaching staff that he is too talented to let go when hard decisions are made later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to see if Thornton will make another big play in Kansas City&#8217;s preseason finale against Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2025\/08\/22\/chiefs-bears-patrick-mahomes-finds-tyquan-thornton-huge-gain\/85786967007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chiefs vs. Bears: Mahomes finds underrated WR for huge gain vs Chicago;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chiefs vs. Bears: Mahomes finds underrated WR for huge gain vs Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star quarterback Patrick Mahomes connected with veteran wide receiver Tyquan Thornton for a 58-yard gain in the Kansas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[391,346,7,118,110,2438,2437,34606,6,499,17689,24175],"class_list":{"0":"post-310038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","13":"tag-kansascity","14":"tag-kansascitychiefs","15":"tag-new-england-patriot","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-patrick-mahomes","18":"tag-preseason-finale","19":"tag-tyquan-thornton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115075571254534533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310038","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=310038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}