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The Chiefs have a little something on the line today . . . or maybe a lot. A win secures them the third seed in the AFC playoffs and they could slip into a first-round bye if the Dolphins can hold on against the Patriots.
The Chiefs, though, are losing at the moment.
Harrison...
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The Ravens announced a contract extension with cornerback Marcus Peters on Saturday.
The deal is for three years, worth $42 million and includes $32 million guaranteed, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports. Peters will get $20.5 million in the first year, per Schefter.
Peters, 26...
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All 32 teams will be playing their final regular season game on Sunday. They have handed in their final injury reports of the week and all injury designations for those games are below.
Dolphins at Patriots
The Dolphins ruled out CB Jomal Wiltz (shoulder). LB Vince Biegel...
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The Chiefs added some help on defense, and put yet another running back on injured reserve.
Via Adam Teicher of ESPN.com, the Chiefs put running back Spencer Ware on IR because of a shoulder problem, and activated defensive lineman Xavier Williams from IR.
Ware signed with the...
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The 2019 regular season ends Sunday. That’s obviously significant for playoff positioning, and also for determining the final two teams with tickets to the postseason party. It’s noteworthy for another more obscure reason.
Upon the conclusion of the third regular season since the...
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The NFL released the following playoff scenarios for the final week of the season.
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Baltimore Ravens – AFC North division and home-field advantage throughout AFC playoffs
Houston Texans – AFC South division
Kansas City Chiefs – AFC West division
New England...
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The Bears don’t have much margin for error against the Chiefs.
And yet they keep making them.
Kansas City has a comfortable 17-0 lead at halftime, made more comfortable by a Bears penalty.
The Chiefs appeared content to take a 10-0 halftime lead, but a running into the punter...
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Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes didn’t need the extra motivation.
But he wasn’t giving it away either.
Mahomes was subdued by his own standards, yet did plenty to lead the Chiefs to a 26-3 win over the Bears.
That improves them to 11-4, keeping them within range of a playoff...
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Most of the time, the Super Bowl winner comes from the group of four teams that start the playoffs with a bye week. This year, those four teams will include the Ravens, who have already clinched home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, and three teams still to be determined...
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After Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw a touchdown pass to tight end Travis Kelce in Sunday night’s win over the Bears, NBC cameras showed Mahomes counting to 10 with outstretched fingers on his way off the field.
It wasn’t hard to guess at the meaning of the gesture...
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Through 10 weeks of the season, the Chiefs were 6-4 and their defense was allowing over 26 points a game to opposing teams.
They’re 11-4 after Sunday night’s win over the Bears and the defense has had a big hand in propelling the team to that winning streak. They’ve allowed under...
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The Bears downgraded defensive tackle Akiem Hicks to out for Sunday’s game against Kansas City.
Hicks had a full week of practice, and the Bears had listed him as questionable Friday.
The team activated him from injured reserve before Week 15, and he played 36 of 59 snaps against...
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Former NFL wide receiver Joe Horn has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud a health plan, the first conviction in a case that has seen 12 retired NFL players accused of ripping off the Gene Upshaw NFL Player Health Reimbursement Account Plan, a program designed to help them with...
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Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes may be facing a Bears defense that’s down a couple of starters on Sunday night.
The Bears listed cornerback Prince Amukamara and defensive tackle Akiem Hicks as questionable for the game.
Amukamara was added to the injury report as a limited...
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Week 16 of the 2019 NFL season kicks off on Saturday with three games and it continues with 12 more games on Sunday. The 30 teams taking part in those games have handed in their final injury reports of the week and all injury designations for those games are below.
The Packers and...
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The Chiefs injury report on Thursday looks a lot like the one they handed in on Wednesday, but there was one notable addition to the list of injured players.
Rookie wide receiver/kick returner Mecole Hardman was limited in practice due to a glute injury. Hardman was not on the...
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The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced the finalists for the Centennial Class of 2020 on Thursday afternoon. The list includes some familiar names like Roger Craig, Drew Pearson, Donnie Shell, Jimbo Covert and Cliff Branch.
The list of 10 contributor finalists, though, does not...
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The Chiefs plucked Terrell Suggs off the waiver wire on Monday despite reports that Suggs might not report to any team other than the Ravens after being dropped by the Cardinals last Friday.
Suggs has reported to the team and head coach Andy Reid said on Wednesday that there was a...
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Chiefs running back Damien Williams practiced on Wednesday and Thursday last week, but wound up missing his third straight game after sitting out of the team’s final practice of the week.
Williams’s absence didn’t keep the Chiefs from beating the Broncos and this week’s practice...
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Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has fought through ankle, knee, and hand injuries this year. Currently, only one injury remains — and it didn’t slow him down on Wednesday.
According to the official injury report, Mahomes fully participated in practice on Wednesday despite the...