Patrick Mahomes is inevitable. And while his Houdini acts have sowed anguish across the NFL for the better part of a decade, no team has known this truth more often than the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers have the scars to prove it.

With the Chiefs prepping to play their second of three games in 11 days on Saturday against the Texans before wrapping up the trio of contests on Christmas Day against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, Santa Claus came to town in Kansas City a little early courtesy of all-world quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

It began, more specifically, with a quarterback calling his shot. Patrick Mahomes walked to the sideline at the two-minute warning Sunday, the Chiefs trailing the Chargers by one but squarely in field goal range and facing a third down that could ice the game.