{"id":946380,"date":"2026-07-15T17:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/946380\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:54:17","slug":"patrick-mahomes-says-goal-remains-to-play-in-chiefs-week-1-game-against-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/946380\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes says ‘goal’ remains to play in Chiefs’ Week 1 game against Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"

At every step of the process, Mahomes has received positive marks. When the NFL schedule was released with the Chiefs opening up with back-to-back prime-time games<\/a>, it underscored the optimism surrounding the MVP QB’s availability to open the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n

Mahomes participated in offseason workouts but was held out of full-team drills. While acknowledging recovery from such a knee injury is a “long process,” the signal-caller is confident with where he’s at with training camp approaching.<\/p>\n

“After the season ended, it was just about getting back out there and try and do whatever I can to be able to participate in OTAs, which I did, and be ready to go for training camp,” Mahomes said. “I know it’s a long process, but you have these end goals. I’m just trying to achieve those end goals by dominating every single day. We’ve had a great recovery program going these last few months and we’re in a good spot. Now it’s just about trying to continue to do that so that I’m ready to go when the season comes around.”<\/p>\n

The Chiefs open training camp<\/a> at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Mo., with rookies reporting on July 24 and veterans on the 28th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At every step of the process, Mahomes has received positive marks. When the NFL schedule was released with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[1227,346,7,118,110,2438,2437,88,6,609,4267,499],"class_list":["post-946380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-chiefs","tag-football","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascitychiefs","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-patrick-mahomes"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116925278693755914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946380","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=946380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}