Chiefs Travis Kelce to play vs. Bengals in AFC Championship despite back injury Mecole Hardman also active

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Chiefs Travis Kelce to play vs. Bengals in AFC Championship despite back injury Mecole Hardman also active

tight end will play against thein the AFC Championship Game on Sunday, per NFL on CBS reporter Tracy Wolfson. He's officially active Sam Darnold Jersey , . Kelce just told me no way he wouldnt play in this one! Reid just wanted to make sure Kelce did some running before making a decision. He did and looked good. Tracy Wolfson (@tracywolfson) Kelce, who was added to the injury report Friday due to a back i sue, was listed as questionable initially before being labeled a on Sunday afternoon, according to Fox. Now, he looks like he'll play through the pain with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line.Wide receiver , one of the team's top speedsters, is also active. He's Cameron Clark Jersey been sidelined since suffering a pelvic injury in Week 9 against the on "Sunday Night Football." In Hardman's last fully healthy game, Week 7 at the , Hardman totaled a career-high three scrimmage touchdowns (one receiving and two rushing).Kelce caught 14 pa ses, tied for the third-most in a playoff game all-time and one short of tying the single-game record, for 98 yards and two touchdowns a week ago in Kansas City's divisional round win last week against George Fant Jersey the. With Mahomesdue to a high-ankle sprain, he'll need to rely even more on Kelce, his security blanket, since he won't be able to use his scrambling magic to create as many pa sing lanes. The 33-year-old led all tight ends in catches (110), receiving yards (1,338) and receiving touchdowns (12) this season, and he's en route to becoming one of the most prolific postseason pa s-catchers in NFL history. His 120 playoff receptions are the second-most all-time behind only the receiving GOAT Jerry Rice (120); his 1,389 playoff receiving yards are tied for the third-most all-time with ; and his 14 Solomon Thomas Jersey receiving touchdowns are the third-most all-time, but he'll leap into second behind only Rice in that category with just two more scores.In order for the Chiefs to beat the Bengals and go on to win the Super Bowl, they'll need more Kelce like Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken needed. Kelce's stat line of four catches for 56 yards didn't cut it in a 27-24 lo s to the Bengals in Week 13, and even his 10-catch, 95-yard, one-touchdown performance wasn Freeman McNeil Jersey 't enough in Kansas City's 27-24 overtime defeat in last year's AFC Championship, also against Cincinnati. Should Kelce be limited because of his back injury, wide receivers , second on the team in receptions and receiving yards this season, and , whose 16.4 yards per receptions were the fourth-highest in the NFL this season, as well as running back , whose nine receiving touchdowns are tied for the most by a running back since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger, would likely be the primary candidates asked to step up in an attempt to return Kansas City to the Super Bowl.
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