Kansas City signed the veteran tackle earlier this week

On Friday, we learned that the Kansas City Chiefs were going to solidify their offensive line by signing veteran left tackle D.J. Humphries, who spent eight seasons playing for the Arizona Cardinals. The former first-round draft pick tore his ACL in 2023’s Week 17. That ended up making him a cap casualty in Arizona.

Humphries was just recently cleared to play. The Chiefs wasted little time in signing him — and for good reason.

During November, left tackle Wanya Morris and right tackle Jawaan Taylor have both struggled. Taylor has given...

Kansas City realizes that it has not been playing as well as it would like.

The Kansas City Chiefs secured a victory on the road against the Carolina Panthers, yet the mood following the game seemed far from celebratory. Despite their success, the Chiefs’ players and coaches openly expressed a sense of unfinished business, reflective of a season marked by narrow victories and high expectations.

Offensive coordinator Matt Nagy spoke about the duality of winning close games.

“It’s a phenomenal feeling to win, number one,” he said. “I think it’s been documented that we’ve been winning a lot of tight...

Kansas City’s defensive coordinator has no illusions about the improvement needed from his unit.

Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo hardly seemed a victor as he addressed the media on Tuesday for the first time since Sunday’s narrow 30-27 victory over the Carolina Panthers.

In particular, Spagnuolo regrets seeing his defense give up yet another late touchdown and allow a successful two-point conversion that tied the game with less than two minutes remaining in regulation. The situation should have been very familiar to Kansas City’s defenders.

“We’ve been through this,” Spagnuolo recalled. “We’ve actually practiced this a couple of...

Two returning players are returning at a good time for the Chiefs.

We’re headed into Week 13 of the NFL season, long enough in the campaign to accumulate injuries throughout the roster of the Kansas City Chiefs. There have been too many to name, but they don’t last forever.

Running back Isiah Pacheco has been missed but is on the verge of returning to the Chiefs’ offense. He was a full participant in practice on Tuesday, the first of the week in preparation for the Friday game against the Las Vegas Raiders.

During his press conference on Tuesday, quarterback Patrick...

Deciphering what this rough defensive stretch means for 2024’s outlook.

At the beginning of the season — even with the Kansas City Chiefs having close wins — it felt like the team had a clear formula for success that was guiding them in those games: play efficient offense that keeps you ahead of the sticks and rely on a strong run defense that gets teams into third downs.

When you get to third down, the combination of Patrick Mahomes on offense and Steve Spagnuolo calling the defense with good personnel set Kansas City apart from other teams. The Chiefs couldn’t...

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Kansas City Chiefs defensive lineman Tershawn Wharton recorded two tackles in his team’s narrow victory over the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. But his most important play came as he was walking off the field.

As the players headed to the locker room, a young Chiefs fan leaned over the railing of the stands to greet them. He then suddenly went head over heels in a video captured by another bystander. Wharton apparently was...

The up-to-date team roster, including contract and salary cap information.

Salary cap space

All information shown is current as of 5:21 p.m. on Tuesday, November 26*.*

Current space: between $179,000 and $1.4 million — likely $1.2 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...

This week, Kansas City hosts Las Vegas on Black Friday.

Each practice day of the season, the Kansas City Chiefs release an official injury report leading up to the next game. In Week 13, the Chiefs will host the Las Vegas Raiders on Black Friday at 2 p.m. Arrowhead Time.

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

Chiefs

Raiders

Check back soon for the Raiders’ official injury report.

Some notes

• The Chiefs had two players who did not practice on Tuesday: linebacker Cam Jones (illness) and kicker Spencer Shrader (hamstring). Shrader’s injury...

Let’s see where Kansas City is listed in this week’s rankings.

Before the 1972 Miami Dolphins won Super Bowl VII — which concluded their 17-0 season — sportswriters had already noticed the team’s regular-season opponents had a combined record of only 0.396. That was said to be the easiest schedule of any pro team in more than two decades. More than 50 years later, a reference to the Dolphins’ amazing season is often accompanied by a remark about the team’s weak schedule.

*If the Kansas City Chiefs win their third consecutive Super Bowl in February, will the sportswriters of 2076...

After a hamstring injury to replacement kicker Spencer Shrader, the Chiefs brought Matthew Wright back to the practice squad.

The Kansas City Chiefs just cannot shake the injury bug.

On Tuesday, the club announced that kicker Spencer Shrader (hamstring) and linebacker Cam Jones (illness) would both miss Tuesday’s practice. The injury to Shrader was severe enough that the Chiefs brought journeyman kicker Matthew Wright back into the fold on their practice squad.

Wright, 28, first entered the league as a 2019 undrafted free agent out of UCF with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Since then, Wright has made stops with eight NFL...

During Weeks 13 and 14, NFL players — including the Kansas City Chiefs — are wearing customized cleats in honor of the causes they have chosen to support through My Cause My Cleats.

Speaking via Zoom on Monday, the right guard weighed in on several matters.

Kansas City Chiefs right guard Trey Smith offered candid insights after the team’s narrow victory over the Carolina Panthers, addressing offensive line struggles, praising tight end Noah Gray’s rise and previewing Friday’s divisional clash with the Las Vegas Raiders.

Issues along the offensive line

Despite the win, the Chiefs’ offensive line allowed five sacks, a glaring issue Smith acknowledged.

“It’s just better recognition and being a better athlete in the moment,” Smith said. “Some of those plays came down to us needing to understand the situation...