The Sunday Night time Soccer showdown between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Detroit Lions led to chaos — and Patrick Mahomes was proper in the course of the melee.
After the Chiefs’ defeated the Lions 30-17 at Kansas Metropolis’s Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday, October 12, Mahomes, 30, tried to high-five Detroit security Brian Department because the groups started exiting the sphere.
Department, 23, was not , and blew off the Chiefs quarterback.
Chiefs large receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster observed Department’s perceived slight and confronted him close to midfield.
Department responded by putting Smith-Schuster, 28, within the facemask, which despatched the Chiefs star to the bottom.
Smith-Schuster instantly leapt up from the sphere and went after Department, which prompted members from each groups to converge in a highly-dramatic scene.
After the gamers had been pulled aside, Smith-Schuster was left with a bloody nostril and lots of had been left puzzled at how issues had gotten so out of hand.
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – OCTOBER 12: Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs speaks with Head coach Dan Campbell of the Detroit Lions after the sport at Arrowhead Stadium on October 12, 2025 in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri. David Eulitt/Getty Photos
“He’s an important participant and he’s enormous for [their] staff,” Smith-Schuster advised reporters of Department . “After the sport, I anticipated to shake his hand and say, ‘Good sport.’ However he threw a punch.”
Mahomes additionally addressed Department’s actions throughout his postgame remarks on the sphere.
“I imply, we play the sport in between the whistles,” the quarterback advised NBC sideline reporter Melissa Stark. “They’ll do all of the extracurricular stuff they wish to do. However we play the sport in between the whistles.”
Throughout his postgame press convention, Mahomes added, “That’s a bodily staff, they usually have a mentality that they arrive in to play with, and we’re going to match that mentality,” Mahomes mentioned. “We’re not afraid to go up towards anyone. That’s the mentality Coach [Andy] Reid brings each single day, and we’re going to match the depth of whoever steps on that area.”
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – OCTOBER 12: The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Detroit Lions combat after the sport at Arrowhead Stadium on October 12, 2025 in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri. Jamie Squire/Getty Photos
Reid, 67, was nonetheless attempting to wrap his thoughts round what occurred when he spoke to reporters after the sport.
“The man got here up and hit JuJu for what seemed like no purpose,” Reid mentioned. “That’s powerful, and he did fairly good injury on JuJu’s nostril.”
Department defined he was upset with Smith-Schuster after he allegedly blocked him within the again towards the tip of the sport, which was not noticed by officers.
“I might’ve obtained damage off of that play,” Department mentioned. “I nonetheless shouldn’t have completed that.”
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Department added, “It was a infantile factor, however I’m uninterested in individuals doing stuff in between the play and refs don’t catch it. They be attempting to bully me on the market. I ought to have by no means did it. It was infantile.”
The NFL has not introduced any fines or suspensions for the gamers concerned within the combat. Department was fined $23,186 for face-masking and unsportsmanlike conduct penalties final month after the Lions’ loss to the Inexperienced Bay Packers.
The win improved the Chiefs’ report to 3-3. Up subsequent, they host the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, October 19.
In the meantime, the loss dropped the Lions to 4-2. Their subsequent sport is at dwelling towards the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday, October 20.
