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Patrick Mahomes’ Mom Randi Shares Honest Concern Ahead of 2025 Chiefs Season

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Michael Gallagher | Last updated Aug 5, 2025 2:34 PM ET

Over the course of his seven-year career as the starting quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes has been fortunate enough to remain relatively healthy.

Just last season, several of the game’s top passers missed significant amounts of time with varying injuries including Cleveland’s Deshaun Watson (10 games, Achilles injury), Dallas’ Dak Prescott (nine games, hamstring avulsion), Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence (seven games, AC joint), New Orleans’ Derek Carr missed (seven games, torn labrum), and Miami’s Tua Tagovailoa missed (six games, concussion).

But the 29-year-old Mahomes has missed just five games over the course of his career, and only two of them were due to an injury.

In fact, Mahomes is one of the more durable passers in the NFL, and Draft Sharks gave him a 5 out of 5 durability rating (five is the highest), and the site lists his injury probability for the 2025 season at just 11.4%.

But despite Mahomes’ track record of avoiding major injury scares, that doesn’t mean his mom Randi doesn’t still worry about her son’s fortunes changing.

In an Instagram reel posted on her personal page, Randi confessed that the looming threat of injury that occurs on every down is one of her biggest concerns every game that Patrick plays.

“Let me tell you, as a mom, to this day, it's hard for me to watch the football games completely,” Randi shared. “I am pacing and I am playing with grandkids… I'm doing anything I can do not to just really focus on every single play because it is a fear that I have.

“I don't normally speak about it, but at the same time, I keep thinking it's going to get easier to watch. And we had injuries, and so, it's something that I always tell them to like focus on your body, listen to your body, listen to your coaches and the doctors also.

“We all know that football is a contact sport and it's something that I've accepted. Every player's team when it comes to injuries anyone on any team gets even a little bit hurt. I lose my breath for a moment and I'm praying for each and every one of them.”

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Mahomes’ durability dates back to his days at Texas Tech.

The two-time NFL MVP suffered just two injuries during his 32-game career across three seasons — a concussion in Nov. 2014 and a wrist fracture in his non-throwing hand. Neither injury forced him to miss any time.

With the Chiefs, Mahomes has dealt with knee patella dislocation (Oct. 2019), turf toe (Jan. 2021), a pedal foot bruise (Dec. 2022), two high-ankle sprains (Jan. and Feb. 2023), and an ankle sprain/pull (Dec. 2024). The patella dislocation is the only one to ever cause him to miss any time (two games).

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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