In a wild series of events, the Kansas City Chiefs seem to have robbed themselves of what would have been an incredible touchdown grab by Tyreek Hill.
Hill beat Broncos corner A.J. Bouye on a deep route, but he didn’t catch the ball cleanly. It was popped up in the air and Hill was tackled to the ground. The ball ended up in Hill’s grasps, but he just assumed it had touched the ground in the process. The crazy thing is that the ball never did hit the ground. Instead, the ball simply bounced off his helmet and into his arms.
Check out the play down below:
Yeah. That ball doesn’t touch the ground. pic.twitter.com/Kx3tQR8Kd9
— Dani Welniak (@KCTVDani) December 7, 2020
A play so wild, Tyreek didn't even know he caught it!
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Andy Reid never throws the challenge flag because Hill gets up and assumed he hadn’t made the catch. The officials didn’t call it a touchdown and he didn’t exactly see the ball throughout the process of the catch.
Typically, there is a coach in the booth that is in charge of watching the replay and calling in a challenge, but that didn’t happen for Kansas City. The team sent out Tommy Townsend and punted the ball back to the Broncos as if nothing had happened.
If the Chiefs can’t manage to get themselves back into this game, they’ll be looking back at this play as the one that got away.
