Butker’s late FGs rally Chiefs
After hitting 54-yarder to tie game, he wins it on last play with 44-yarder
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker watched his 44-yard field goal split the uprights, the clocks inside Arrowhead Stadium reading zero, and the Chiefs kicker turned and sprinted the other way in celebration.
The first person to join him? Patrick Mahomes.
The reigning league MVP, who missed his second straight game while recovering from a dislocated kneecap, looked just fine as he joined Butker and the rest of his Chiefs teammates in a mid“I field mob after their heart-stopping 26-23 victory over the Vikings on Sunday.
“I was sprinting down, maybe just from my soccer background growing up — that’s what you do when you score,” said Butker, who thought the winner may have been tipped. “When I was going I saw Patrick, and I wanted to embrace him and I’m like, ‘Nah, he can’t get hurt.’ ”
Matt Moore started in Mahomes’ place and threw for 275 yards and a TD, and he made the crucial plays when they mattered. He hit favorite target Tyreek Hill to convert a key third down and set up Butker’s career best-tying 54-yard field goal to knot the game, then found Hill again a couple minutes later to make the winner a little more manageable.
thought, Matt, that was a gutsy performance,” said Chiefs coach Andy Reid, whose team snapped a three-game skid at Arrowhead Stadium. “He took a couple of licks and got back up and finished. But him calming the storm I thought was good.”
Hill finished with six catches for 140 yards for the Chiefs (6-3), including a spectacular TD grab, while Damien Williams ran for 125 yards — most of it on a 91-yard touchdown run.
Kirk Cousins threw for 220 yards and three TDs for the Vikings (6-3), though he struggled to deal with the Chiefs’ blitzes late in the game.
Dalvin Cook was held to only 71 yards rushing, while top wide receiver Stefon Diggs had a single catch for four yards.