ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- As he has done throughout his rehab, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes achieved the next checkmark in his return from his left knee injury when he wanted, just two days before his Friday arrival at Missouri Western State's campus for the team's training camp.
The Chiefs' medical staff and Dr. Dan Cooper, the Dallas Cowboys' head team physician who performed the surgery to repair the torn ACL and LCL in the quarterback's left knee, cleared Mahomes on Wednesday to fully participate in camp.
"I feel stronger than I've ever felt, as far as strength and lifting [weights]," Mahomes said Friday. "I feel amazing.... I'm excited just to be able to play football. I've been seeing cinderblock walls rehabbing every single day in Kansas City. Now, to be on that practice field with my teammates, it's going to be a lot of fun."