CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes continues to build great chemistry with his tight end — just not the one you might think. Mahomes threw two touchdown passes to Noah Gray for the second straight week as the Kansas City Chiefs held off the Carolina Panthers 30-27 on Sunday. A week after losing at Buffalo, the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs (10-1) maintained their position atop the AFC. Mahomes completed a 35-yard touchdown strike to Gray on the game’s opening possession and found him again for an 11-yard TD in the second quarter. Gray has four touchdown catches in the last two weeks — twice as many as nine-time Pro Bowler Travis Kelce has all season — and has become a weapon in the passing game for the Chiefs, who lost top wide receiver Rashee Rice to a season-ending knee injury in Week 4. Kelce was still a factor Sunday with a team-high six catches for 62 yards, although the four-time All-Pro looked dejected after dropping one easy pass. Kelce has 62 receptions for 507 yards this season, while Gray has 26 catches for 249 yards. But Gray's development is a good sign for the Chiefs — and he's on the same page with Mahomes. On his second TD, Gray said Mahomes “gave me the answer to the test there” before the play. Story continues below video “He told me what coverage it was pre-snap," said Gray, who had four receptions for 66 yards. “That’s just the blessing you have of playing with a quarterback like that. Offensive line did a great job blocking that up and the receivers did a great job running their routes to pop me open. Really just a group effort right there on that touchdown.” Gray said that's nothing new. “Pat’s preparation, his leadership is just something that I’m fortunate enough to play alongside,” Gray said. "I love it. It gets me motivated every time we go out there for a long drive. Having a leader like that, that prepares every single week in-and out, knows defenses, knows the game plans. “I’m just fortunate enough to play alongside a guy like that.” Mahomes completed 27 of 37 passes for 269 yards and three TDs, and he knew what to do on the second TD to Gray. “It's not just me, it's the quarterback coaches and the players, we go through certain checks you get to versus certain coverages,” Mahomes said. “I was able to see by the way they lined up they were getting into their cover-zero look. I alerted the guys to make sure they saw what I saw and I gave the check at the line of scrimmage.” AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl
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Spencer Claussen, who is a sophomore, joins Hescock and White as returning players who saw significant minutes last year, while junior Ryder Butynski also returns from the varsity roster last season. Against the visiting Cosmos (1-2), Rebels first year head coach Bob Culver started each of his available varsity players who were Claussen, juniors Logan Plimpton and Colin Dunleavy-Mercier, Hescock, and Butynski. White and junior Jax Meister, the other full-time varsity players for the Rebels, were out of the lineup due to injury. When White returns from injury, Culver said either Plimpton or Butynski will help give the Rebels meaningful minutes off the bench. With only five of his seven varsity players in action against the Cosmos, Culver has also pulled up some players from junior varsity, with freshmen Dakota Shippee, Frank Flood, Connor Richardson, and sophomores Lucas Gleason and Orren Styles added to the lineup for the Rebels. Culver said Flood, Styles and Richardson will provide depth at the forward position, and Shippee was pulled up in their last game to help out at guard. Gleason is also listed at the guard position. “We felt it was important to make sure they do get minutes on JV and not just sit on the bench on varsity. It’s important for these players to get those minutes, get the experience, and then if we can get them in, we get in foul trouble ... get minutes up here too. We need them,” said Culver. Something that Culver has stressed so far this year is his team playing with composure in pressure situations. The Cosmos applied a full court press against the Rebels, which is something they had a hard time with early in the game, but Culver was pleased with how his team adjusted to the pressure as the game went on. In these situations, Culver wants his team to slow the game down, and trust that they know what to do in those times. Offensively, Culver wants to base what they run on whether the opposing team is playing zone or man-to-man defense. Against zones, Culver wants his team to spread the court and move the ball with passing to draw out the defense and get everyone involved. Against man-to-man on offense Culver wants Claussen, who finished with nine points against the Cosmos, to isolate and beat his defender to force help defense and allow him to either attack the rim or pass to the open player. “I think tonight it worked out alright ... there were moments that we did it perfect, it looked beautiful, then moments we just got flustered ... and they got two points on the other end because of a silly turnover” said Culver. On the defensive side, this is something Culver said has been impacted by both injuries and the lack of numbers he has on the bench. Culver said he prefers man-to-man defense, but is also going to be mixing in some zone when necessary. He said he would like to implement some pressure man-to-man defense as well, but admitted this is difficult with having short numbers on the bench as he doesn’t want to deplete the energy of his players that he needs in the game. Culver said once his team is fully healthy, he wants to implement a press on defense to help jumpstart their transition game and get easy layups as opposed to slowing down the speed of play and having to set up a look on offense. The Rebels didn’t show any full court pressure in the game against Springfield, which Culver attributed to his team’s lack of numbers on the bench. “We were just five players essentially tonight ... they had a lot deeper bench, we weren’t going to be able to keep up with them legs wise I don’t think if we tried that,” said Culver. As the season continues, Culver said that one of the biggest challenges the team will face is continuing to deal with limited personnel. This includes the next two games, as the Rebels will be without Hescock, according to Culver, starting with their home game on Friday against Grace Christian. Culver said the hardest part about missing players is making sure that everyone else is up to speed, especially those who are new to the varsity level. The Rebels host Grace Christian Friday at 7 p.m. They will close out the calendar year with a road game against Poultney on Monday at 7 p.m. “I’m looking forward to seeing what Cody [Hescock] and Ely [White] do as seniors. I’ve been working with Cody for four years now since he’s been a freshman on varsity,” said Culver. “So I’m really excited to see how he does his senior year, and how his improvement, his growth has come, and become a real leader.”
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