ESPN’s Nate Taylor reports the Chiefs are optimistic that Patrick Mahomes (knee) “is on track to participate -- even in a limited capacity -- in the team’s voluntary offseason practices” in May.

25 March 2026

The limited capacity is probably the key bit of this, but Mahomes has seemed well ahead of projections for his recovery from a torn ACL and LCL for some time and at this point it probably shouldn’t be surprising if he’s ready for Week 1. The first real logistical checkpoint we’ll see for Mahomes — since voluntary offseason practice isn’t heavily tracked and we’ll have no clue how ahead he is outside of optimistic quotes — is if he’s placed on the physically unable to perform list as he reports to training camp. We don’t have a reason to believe he will be at this point.