After another disappointing loss, the Kansas City Chiefs have been swept by the Los Angeles Chargers in a season for the first time since 2021.

Like most games this year, the Chiefs had multiple opportunities to avoid this embarrassing 13-16 loss, but costly mistakes, drops, and turnovers led to the Chiefs literally giving this game away.

Then the sky came crashing down, and the ground gave way beneath our feet, when quarterback Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL late in the game.

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As Chiefs miss the playoffs, why Chris Jones’ words — and emotions — spoke for his team | The Athletic

Jones hadn’t seen all the other NFL scores yet. Somewhere in the back of his mind — still — he clung to hope that this season might not be over for the Chiefs.
“Are we out of the playoffs?” he said, looking to the media members around him.
A few answered yes. The Chiefs, at 6-8, had been eliminated from any postseason chance with Sunday’s results.
“We are?” Jones said, his head nodding...

The Kansas City Chiefs’ 16-13 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers eliminated the team from playoff contention — and unfortunately, it also meant the end of quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ season.

Almost three hours after the game’s conclusion, the Chiefs announced that Mahomes tore the ACL in his left knee during the loss. The heartbreaking injury occurred on a fourth-quarter play where he was tackled awkwardly as he released a desperate throw.

He initially visited the blue medical tent on the sideline before needing help to walk back to the locker room. Now, Mahomes’ 2025 season is done — and the...

Injuries dominated the aftermath of the Kansas City Chiefs’ 16-13 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday. The defeat dropped Kansas City to 6-8 — and combined with other results from the NFL’s early slate, the loss officially eliminated the Chiefs from postseason contention.

The league’s attention now turns to quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ left knee after it appeared to buckle on the first play following the fourth quarter’s two-minute warning. Mahomes limped to the sideline and was assisted into the locker room.

After the game, head coach Andy Reid said Mahomes would undergo an MRI either Sunday evening or...

Needing a Week 15 victory to keep their postseason hopes alive, the Kansas City Chiefs instead collected a fourth-quarter knee injury to quarterback Patrick Mahomes as time was running out in a 16-13 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, dropping their record to 6-8 and ending their opportunity to reach the postseason. So now, the team must focus of getting through the final three games of the season without more injuries – and begin thinking about how to work its way back to success in 2026.

First Quarter

Mahomes scrambles for early touchdown

Kansas City methodically...

In an AFC West slugfest, the Kansas City Chiefs couldn’t pull out a needed win against the Los Angeles Chargers in a 16-13 loss.

Here are three takeaways from a defeat that effectively ended Kansas City’s season.

The Chiefs threw the first punch and kept swinging

Early on, Kansas City played with real urgency. The offense opened with an 11-play, 53-yard drive that reached the 12-yard line before quarterback Patrick Mahomes scrambled in on second-and-goal for the game’s first touchdown.

Tight end Travis Kelce looked locked in from the start. On a third-and-11 in Chargers territory, Kelce found space...

On the first play after the fourth quarter’s two-minute warning in the Kansas City Chiefs’ loss Sunday to the Los Angeles Chargers, quarterback Patrick Mahomes took a shot to his left knee and stayed on the field.

Mahomes had been on all three injury reports this week with a knee ailment, although he practiced fully and had no game designation for the contest.

The quarterback was able to get off of the field and limp to the sideline. However, he was then seen being assisted as he walked up the tunnel to Kansas City’s locker room.

Mahomes navigated even more...

The (6-7) Kansas City Chiefs arrive at their Week 15 home matchup against the (9-4) Los Angeles Chargers with zero room for error. For all practical purposes, a loss to the Chargers will make them miss the playoffs for the first time since 2014. Even with a win, Kansas City will almost certainly have to win the season’s three remaining games — and hope that some other games will fall the right way — to get into the postseason. Can the Chiefs avoid recording their fifth loss in six games — and do it against the team that [beat them...

The Kansas City Chiefs have released their list of inactive players for Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Chargers.

Cornerback Trent McDuffie, who left Week 14’s contest against the Houston Texans with a hyperextended knee, is inactive Sunday. McDuffie was listed as questionable on Friday’s final injury report.

Starting right guard Trey Smith and right tackle Jawaan Taylor were already ruled out on Friday with lingering injuries. Smith will miss his third straight contest while recovering from a high ankle sprain. Taylor hurt his triceps against the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving and will miss his second consecutive game.

On Friday,...

Salary cap space

All information shown is current as of 10:05 a.m. Sunday, December 14

Current space: $2.8 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 for some reported roster moves have not been officially submitted to the league...

On Saturday, the Kansas City Chiefs announced four roster moves in advance of their Week 15 matchup with the Los Angeles Chargers on GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. The team placed backup tackle Wanya Morris on its Reserve/Injured list, activated practice squad guard C.J. Hanson to the 53-man roster and elevated two other practice squad players for Sunday’s game: tackle Chu Godrick and defensive tackle Zacch Pickens.

On the first offensive play of last Sunday’s 20-10 loss to the Houston Texans — as Morris was filling in for injured left tackle Josh Simmons — he sustained a gruesome-looking knee injury....

Before the Kansas City Chiefs’ Week 14 matchup against the Houston Texans, nearly every Arrowhead Pride panelist picked Kansas City to win. Their aggregated prediction — a 20-10 Chiefs victory — missed by 26 points compared to the Chiefs’ 20-10 loss. Our readers fared much better: just over half picked Houston to win, and 14% correctly believed the Texans would leave Kansas City with an easy victory.

In Week 15, the Chiefs return to GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium to face the Los Angeles Chargers. According to FanDuel Sportsbook, Kansas City is favored by 5.5 points.

*Here’s how the staff...