{"id":156330,"date":"2025-08-18T18:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156330\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:03:10","slug":"patrick-mahomes-chiefs-starters-will-play-in-preseason-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156330\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs starters will play in preseason finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City\u2019s regular players will be on the field for the club\u2019s preseason finale against Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Andy Reid told reporters in his Monday press conference that the Chiefs\u2019 starters will play on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ll start it off, for sure, and then we\u2019ll see how it goes from there,\u201d Reid said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Reid had some starts \u2014 including the team\u2019s offensive line \u2014 play with backup quarterback Gardner Minshew. But Reid also said he wanted to put some younger players in a competitive situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to give the best look we could to these guys that are trying to make the team,\u201d Reid said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got some guys who are right on the border of making it. Give them a shot. And I wanted to see the quarterback work with the [No.] 1 offensive line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Patrick Mahomes played just three snaps in the team\u2019s preseason opener against Arizona, throwing a touchdown pass. He\u2019s likely to play more than that on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City\u2019s regular players will be on the field for the club\u2019s preseason finale against Chicago. Head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-156330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115051089572647410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}