The Kansas City Chiefs might have escaped Week 2 with a one-point victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, but the game revealed they have a true problem brewing at the left tackle position.

Rookie LT Kingsley Suamataia was benched during the fourth quarter after surrendering a fourth-quarter sack, followed directly by a fourth-quarter holding penalty. He struggled to contain Bengals DE Trey Hendrickson all day, allowing numerous pressures and quarterback hits from Patrick Mahomes' blind side. 

Chiefs HC Andy Reid spoke about the decision to sit the second-round draft pick out of BYU after the game.

"Kingsley (Suamataia), he's going against arguably one of the best defensive ends in the league," Reid said. "It'll be a great experience that he can put away and hear him learn from. And I ended up taking him out of the game. Sometimes you've got to take a step back to take a step forward. So, and, you know, so Wanya (Morris) came in and did a nice job. Now he also had a penalty there. But very seldom Are you going to get a guy like that right there that you're playing against, and what you want to do is learn from it and move forward."

We knew this game would be a major challenge for Suamataia after Hendrickson had a tremendous Week 1 performance against the New England Patriots. Even once the Chiefs realized Suamataia needed help, they struggled to chip Hendrickson or scheme plays that could help offset his pass rush.

Asked if he expected Suamataia as the team's starting left tackle next week, Reid hesitated to commit to the 21-year-old.

"We'll see how it goes," Reid said. "I'm going to go back and look at the tape and I'll talk with Coach Heck, and we'll go from there."

Suamataia earned the starting job over second-year OT Wanya Morris during training camp. Morris, of course, came into the game as an eligible receiver and caught a touchdown pass, but he also struggled in his few snaps after he replaced the rookie.

Kingsley Suamataia takes responsibility, but is it enough?

Suamataia didn't make any excuses for himself after being benched in Week 2 against the Bengals. Speaking to reporters in the locker room, he was already thinking about the ways he could improve.

"They gave me the challenge to be the left tackle of this team and I need to take it upon myself even harder," Suamataia told KSHB-TV's Aaron Ladd. "None of that should’ve happened in the first place. Bad technique in those reps. Definitely stuff I can work on.”

Those comments echoed what Patrick Mahomes had to say about it after the game. 

"Yeah, I mean, just keep playing, man," Mahomes said. "You're not always going to have your perfect day. I mean, I didn't have a perfect day today, but just like any other great player, you have to trust in your abilities. You have to learn from it. You have to have that mentality."

Suamataia also declared that he's not giving himself grace, even though he has the excuse of being a rookie. He knows that he erased any potential chance for a big play on the two plays where he messed up. His teammates also comforted him in what was quite a tough moment. 

"(They told me to) just keep my head up," Suamataia said. "'I'm the future of this program. I'm going to be here for the next 10-plus years. I'm just a rookie.' They gave me that stuff and I was like, 'OK, but it never should have happened in the first place.'" 

Suamataia won't make excuses for himself. It's one of the reasons that Mahomes is confident in the rookie moving forward.

"I have all the trust in the world that he's going to keep getting better and better and be a guy that I can really count on every single game," he said.

All Suamataia can do from here is work on his craft and get better, no matter what the coaches decide. 

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