On Sunday, Kansas City is on the road to play its Week 12 game in Carolina.

Each practice day of the season, the Kansas City Chiefs release an official injury report leading up to the next game. This week, Kansas City goes back on the road to play the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte. Kickoff will be at noon (Arrowhead Time) on Sunday.

Here is the Chiefs’ first official injury report of the week:

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• All eyes are on two potential returns for the Chiefs this week: running back Isiah Pacheco (ankle) and defensive...

Two of Kansas City’s important contributors are soon expected to be returning from their injuries.

In a season where the Kansas City Chiefs have played relatively well on both sides of the ball (and winning many games), it’s been hard not to be pleased about how the team has been doing week-to-week — even though many of the wins have been close ones.

But injuries have been one of the season’s downsides. Hollywood Brown, Rashee Rice, Isiah Pacheco, Jaylen Watson, Jared Wiley, Jody Fortson and Harrison Butker are among those on the team’s Reserve/Injured list. Charles Omenihu has been on...

Head coach Andy Reid spoke about both players during his Wednesday morning press conference.

Amidst a season plagued by injury, the Kansas City Chiefs announced that they would conduct a fully-attended practice on Wednesday ahead of their Sunday matchup against the Carolina Panthers. The Chiefs are coming off their first loss of the season — a 30-21 setback at the hands of the Buffalo Bills.

For the second consecutive week, both running back Isiah Pacheco and defensive lineman Charles Omenihu are expected to work.

“We’ll see on both those two,” said head coach Andy Reid. “[We’ll] kind of go through...

The key difference on Sunday was the success on third down (on both sides of the ball).

There has been a lot of consternation over the Kansas City Chiefs’ record and point differential this year, but despite some of their struggles, they were 9-0 coming into the game.

What set the Chiefs apart was their third-down execution on both sides of the ball.

On offense, the Chiefs are first in third-down conversion rate. This is often when Patrick Mahomes becomes a superhero, uncorking ridiculous throws out-of-structure or scrambling. On defense, the Chiefs aren’t quite as efficient — they rank 21st...

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Salary cap space

All information shown is current as of 9:39 a.m. on Wednesday, November 20*.*

Current space: $2.2 million.

This includes the estimated salary cap impacts of all known signings and releases. More information about our cap space calculation is available below the tables.

Please note: *All NFL teams must remain below the salary cap between the beginning of the new league year in mid-March and the end of each season. If our estimate of the team’s cap space is a negative number, it’s because contracts...

Carolina is hosting Kansas City in Week 12.

The 9-1 Kansas City Chiefs begin the season’s stretch run with their final 2024 matchup against an NFC South opponent, facing the 3-7 Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Week 12’s kickoff is scheduled for noon (Arrowhead Time) on CBS.

The Chiefs are coming off their first defeat of the season — a 30-21 road loss to the Buffalo Bills — but still control the AFC’s No. 1 postseason seed. They will be trying to start another winning streak against a Carolina team that is fresh off...

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Here’s a summary of this week’s comments about the Kansas City Chiefs...

Don’t overreact about Kansas City’s first loss, which didn’t happen until almost Thanksgiving; it felt like it was coming for the past several weeks. The Chiefs came down to earth, losing a rare two-possession game at Buffalo. [That means] we’ve gone from talking about an unbeaten season to suddenly wondering if Kansas City will end up with a first-round bye in the playoffs. [But] now, the Chiefs know precisely what they can and...

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Did the Chiefs’ loss at Buffalo portend playoff failures?

By Brandon Kiley

So, where do you stand? Did it matter? Did it not? Somewhere in-between? What did the Chiefs’ first loss of the season mean for the team’s standing among the best in the AFC?

It’s the talk of the nation, and fair arguments exist for...

Let’s see how Kansas City’s postseason possibilities line up following Week 11’s NFL action.

The Kansas City Chiefs now stand 9-1 after notching a 30-21 defeat to the Buffalo Bills.

Seven weeks remain in the 2024 NFL season, in which Kansas City will go on the road to play the Carolina Panthers, return home for their second division games versus the Las Vegas Raiders and Los Angeles Chargers, play the Cleveland Browns in Ohio, face the Houston Texans at home and finish the season on the road against the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Broncos.

Let’s take a look at the...

The Chiefs were outscored and outplayed in their first loss of the season.

By the time the Kansas City Chiefs put up a fourth-quarter touchdown to bring the score within two points of the Buffalo Bills in Week 11, it was too late. There were less than eight minutes left, and the Chiefs’ defense was all out of stops after earning two in the second half; both were followed up with punts by the offense.

The Chiefs scored just twice over the first seven possessions, but they were unable to find a rhythm outside of an eight-play stretch that featured...

The Chiefs pass rush struggled during the teams 30-21 loss to Buffalo

For the first time during the 2024 season, the Kansas City Chiefs' pass rush failed to record a sack during the game — and the inability to bring down Allen would cost them.

The team did record 19 pressures, their second most of the season (22 against the New Orleans Saints was the most), but against a quarterback like Josh Allen, pressures don’t hold the same weight that they do with other quarterbacks.

Star defensive tackle Chris Jones recorded seven pressures and was inches away from a sack...