Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce are unlikely to play on Friday night in the club’s second preseason game against the Seattle Seahawks.

“There’s a chance I sit a couple of the starters or at least be short with them,” said head coach Andy Reid after the team’s final training camp practice on Wednesday. “We want to make sure we get a good look at these young guys, so we’ll just see how it all rolls going forward.”

During Wednesday’s practice, both Mahomes and Kelce worked with the scout team.

”It’s fun,” said Mahomes. “You get to try stuff even more than you would try at a regular training camp practice, and so [I] worked on my fakes and stuff like that — trying to get a defense to bite on fakes and stuff. [I] tried to throw it into tighter windows. Sometimes those things are circled but you still want to try to fit it in there and get the completions. It’s a different type of competitive thing that you go through, and you’re trying to beat the defense whenever they are set up to succeed.”

Backup Gardner Minshew was under center with the first-team offensive line, indicating he will earn the start.

“There’s a good chance he doesn’t [play],” said Reid of Mahomes. “We’ll see how it goes.”

Of course, the quarterback said he would be on the field if it were up to him.

“I always want to play,” said Mahomes. “I always want to be out there and playing. You could say that you don’t want to play and then you get to the game and it’s like, ‘Man, I want to be in the game and playing a game with my teammates.

“At the end of the day, I trust in coach Reid and his process. He has a reason for everything that he does. Like I said, I’ll be ready to play this week… If I get to play, I’ll be ready to go, and if I don’t, I’ll be ready to go again the next week. And if not, I’ll be just as energized on the sideline as if I was playing in the game.”

After Seattle, the Chiefs return home the following Friday, August 22, to take on the Chicago Bears in their final preseason game. Reid left the door open for Mahomes and Kelce to play in that contest.

“There’s a chance they play a little bit more in the third game,” concluded the head coach.

Reid also confirmed several Chiefs players will be unavailable due to injury: tight end Jake Briningstool (hamstring), wide receiver Hollywood Brown (ankle) and offensive tackle Ethan Driskell (appendectomy). Running back Kareem Hunt is considered questionable after being held out on Wednesday with a quad contusion.