Chiefs 'mad' over no-call on Smith-Schuster hit

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Chiefs manager Andy Reid indicated helium believed the Jaguars should person been penalized erstwhile wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster near Sunday's crippled successful the 2nd 4th and entered the concussion protocol.

"As agelong arsenic there's interaction to the head, it doesn't request to beryllium successful the game," Reid said of the deed connected Smith-Schuster by Jaguars information Andre Cisco. "So it looked similar determination was interaction to the caput from wherever I was standing, but I'm not the 1 making that call."

Smith-Schuster had been going crossed the mediate to drawback a walk from Patrick Mahomes erstwhile Cisco deed him precocious and a emblem was thrown. The wide receiver was motionless connected the turf with his hands momentarily frozen. He was yet helped to his feet and walked disconnected with assistance from teammates

While helium was inactive connected the ground, referee Brad Rogers picked up the emblem and announced determination was nary penalty, adjacent though replays showed helmet-to-helmet contact. Reid protested to Rogers and aboriginal said helium was told the interaction was shoulder-to-shoulder and not taxable to a penalty.

"He evidently was successful beauteous atrocious presumption determination for enarthrosis to enarthrosis [contact]," Reid said.

Said Rogers aft the game: "After treatment connected the field, the 2 officials came successful and determined that the defender had acceptable and braced for interaction and deed enarthrosis to shoulder. They didn't consciousness it was usage of a helmet foul."

Smith-Schuster did not instrumentality to the game, which Kansas City won 27-17. The Chiefs' starring wide receiver this play (46 receptions, 615 yards), Smith-Schuster had 2 catches for 33 yards against the Jaguars.

After the game, his teammates shared their unhappiness astir the deficiency of a call.

"We were mad," Chiefs information Justin Reid said. "I've had a batch of large hits and not erstwhile person I made helmet-to-helmet interaction similar that."

Said Mahomes: "Obviously determination was immoderate helmet-to-helmet contact, and we privation to get that retired of the league arsenic overmuch arsenic possible, for subordinate safety. These guys connected defence are playing too, but by rule, if it's helmet-to-helmet, it is expected to beryllium a flag. I cognize that feline wasn't trying to. I cognize it's a bang-bang play."

Mahomes mentioned that possibly helmet-to-helmet blows should beryllium reviewed, overmuch similar targeting penalties are successful assemblage football, though helium walked backmost that thought erstwhile asked to clarify what helium meant. The backmost besides shared a affirmative update connected Smith-Schuster.

"It was scary erstwhile you're retired there. We saw him aft the crippled and helium seemed perfectly normal," Mahomes said, "giggling around, joking around, worldly similar that. Just instrumentality precautions and get him backmost steadfast arsenic rapidly arsenic possible."

The Chiefs played against the Jaguars without different apical wide receiver, Mecole Hardman, due to the fact that of an abdominal injury. Recently acquired Kadarius Toney was the Chiefs' starring wide receiver with 4 receptions, and helium scored his archetypal NFL touchdown successful the archetypal 4th erstwhile helium hopped on the sideline connected 1 limb to scope the extremity zone.

He could person a likewise ample relation successful adjacent Sunday night's crippled against the Los Angeles Chargers, peculiarly if Smith-Schuster and Hardman don't play.

Toney initially hesitated erstwhile asked whether helium already felt much a portion of things than helium did successful his one-plus seasons with the New York Giants. But helium yet answered by saying, "I don't privation to propulsion nary [shade], but benignant of, yeah.''

"I consciousness similar I'm close wherever I request to be," added Toney, a first-round draught prime by the Giants past year. "I'm grateful for the accidental to spell to New York.

"I conjecture you could accidental New York, it was a learning experience. Just got my feet wet. I'm a rookie coming successful conscionable trying to larn however the concern goes, however everything truly goes. Now I'm here."

Toney caught 39 passes successful 10 games past play for the Giants and 2 successful 2 games this twelvemonth earlier being sidelined with a hamstring injury. He played his archetypal crippled with the Chiefs past week against the Tennessee Titans and caught 2 passes.

"Just truly conscionable spending other clip doing what I've got to bash to marque definite I cognize what I've got to do," Toney said connected however helium got up to velocity truthful rapidly with the Chiefs. "It's my occupation to cognize what I person to do. So wherefore not walk each waking infinitesimal I've got doing what I've got to do?"

Toney besides had a succinct effect connected the deed to his wide receiver teammate: "That was illegal," helium said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.