The entire fanbase of the Kansas City Chiefs held its collective breath for more than just a moment during the team’s win over the New York Jets. While attempting a pass, Patrick Mahomes got his right throwing arm bent back in an awkward manner.

The sight of Mahomes grabbing his dangling arm, writhing in pain, was enough for Chiefs fans to expect the absolute worst. But as Mahomes has done so many times in his NFL career, he found a way to fight through the pain and come back into the game. He actually was able to play out the whole game, which ended in a 35-12 victory for Kansas City.

The attention now turns to Mahomes’ elbow injury, which is yet to be properly diagnosed as anything other than that. Mahomes himself, when addressing the injury during his postgame press conference, said that he will have to see how much pain and swelling he has as the week progresses. Before any of that, an MRI was needed to determine the extent of the injury.

Patrick Mahomes avoided major elbow injury, but pain and swelling will have to be monitored

The MRI results have come back quickly, and Chiefs fans can breathe a big sigh of relief. According to Ian Rapoport, “the tests did not reveal a major injury”. Rapoport does note that his injury will be monitored over the next few days, so Mahomes isn’t completely out of the clear yet.

Given the adrenaline of the game taking over to mask his pain in the moment, Mahomes will likely be quite sore on Monday morning. Making the injury tricky is that it’s on his throwing arm. If Mahomes feels he can’t properly execute every throw needed within the Chiefs offense, he probably won’t be out there in Week 10. Only time will tell.