Kansas City, December 18, 2025 – In a shocking press conference today, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid dropped a bombshell that has left Chiefs Kingdom in despair: Patrick Mahomes has ZERO possibility of returning to the field this season after his devastating torn ACL (and LCL) injury. “Pat is out for the year. The injury is too severe – there’s no way he’s coming back in 2025,” Reid stated solemnly, confirming what fans feared most.
Just days after the heartbreaking non-contact knee buckle in the fourth quarter of the 16-13 loss to the Chargers – a game that officially eliminated the Chiefs from playoffs for the first time in a decade – Mahomes underwent successful surgery in Dallas on December 15 to repair the torn ACL and LCL. The three-time Super Bowl MVP has already started rehab, vowing to “be back stronger than ever,” but the reality is harsh: his 2025 season is over.
Now, with playoff dreams shattered, the Chiefs head into a tough Week 16 road matchup against the Tennessee Titans on December 21. This “meaningless” game suddenly becomes a massive test without their superstar QB:
How can the Chiefs survive without Mahomes?
Reid admitted the challenge: “We’re going to fight to the end, but without Pat, it’s a completely different ballgame. The Titans are dangerous, and this is a survival battle for us.”
Chiefs fans, this is the biggest shock in recent history for Kansas City. Will the team rally for a win against the Titans in Week 16 without their “superhuman” leader? Or is this the end of an era? What do you think? Can the Chiefs beat the Titans? Drop your comments below and share if you’re heartbroken for Mahomes!
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has a decision to make regarding his future with the Kansas City Chiefs as he mulls retirement once again. But as he considers his future, he’s facing a bit of a scandal.
Last month, Kelce was announced as the Kansas City Chiefs’ club winner for the 2025 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award, recognizing his community impact through his Eighty-Seven and Running Foundation. However, that foundation has recently come under some strong scrutiny.
According to federal tax records obtained by the Arizona Republic as part of a recent investigation into the charity, Kelce’s nonprofit told the IRS that it spent just 41 cents of every dollar on charity from 2021 to 2024.
Instead of the money going directly to charity, the Arizona Republic investigation found that Kelce’s Eighty-Seven and Running Foundation has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to A&A Management Group, which is a management company co-founded by Kelce’s longtime business managers, brothers Aaron and André Eanes.
Not only that, but the Arizona Republic found that the company had no official president, secretary, or treasurer and had just two board members, which is below the minimum of three required to ensure good governance.
“It appears to function more as an extension of the management company versus as an independent public charity,” said Laurie Styron, the executive director of CharityWatch, an independent charity watchdog group that reviewed the nonprofit’s tax filings for The Arizona Republic. “That’s not how charities work. It’s wrong.”
Aaron Eanes addressed these issues, claiming that the numbers were a result of incorrect tax filings and said that the charity is working to expand its governance.
Eanes told the Arizona Republic that the operational costs for charitable efforts were “mistakenly reported under management rather than allocated adequately to program services.” As a result, the public records do not provide an accurate “indication of where the resources were truly directed,” Eanes claims.
“We have since corrected this: Management fees decreased significantly in 2024 and dropped to zero in 2025,” Eanes said.
“Looking ahead, we are expanding our board of directors, bringing on advisers with nonprofit expertise, and restructuring our reporting processes to better reflect our actual program work. We are dedicated to ensuring this foundation operates at the highest standards,” he added.
Mistake or not, the current numbers indicate that just 56 cents of every dollar spent has gone to charity since the nonprofit was created.