Kickers - Elliot does to - are just kicking 50 yarders no problem.
They needed to get to the 35-40 yard line (after the kick off that’s getting 35 yards in 35 seconds with 2 timeouts.
If that’s Mahomes - anything less than trying to find a way to run off another 20 seconds before scoring would be a mistake.
How to run off more clock there would have been just have 1 or 2 of those catches stay in bounds.