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Getty Images When the Titans beat the Chiefs in the regular season, Derrick Henry led the way. If the Titans are going to upset the Chiefs again on Sunday in the AFC Championship Game, they’ll be counting on Henry to get the job done again. Henry carried 23 times for 188 yards and two...

Getty Images It’s awards time for the divisional round of the playoffs. On Tuesday’s #PFTPM, MDS and yours truly named players, rookies, coaches, and calls of the week that saw the playoff field whittled from eight to four teams. The players of the week are Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes...

Getty Images Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill will be welcomed into an exclusive club on Sunday, a club that Patrick Mahomes became a member of last year, and a club that has had surprisingly few members in recent years. That club is quarterbacks who have started the AFC Championship Game...

Getty Images The Chiefs were able to win Sunday’s game against the Texans despite the absence of defensive tackle Chris Jones and they’re hopeful that they’ll have him on hand when they face the Titans for the AFC title next Sunday. Jones was scratched due to a calf injury. Head coach Andy...

Getty Images The NFL saw a slight uptick in TV viewership for the divisional round of the playoffs. The league says that average viewership for the four divisional round games was 33.2 million viewers, a 2 percent increase over the 32.6 million viewers that last year’s divisional round...

Getty Images During his postgame press conference, Bill O’Brien explained his decision to run a fake punt deep in his own end while holding a 24-7 lead by saying “we felt like we needed 50 points.” The Texans actually needed 52 since the Chiefs scored 51, but who’s counting? If that’s truly...

Getty Images The only way the first quarter of Sunday’s game against the Texans couldn’t have gone any worse for the Chiefs would have been if Patrick Mahomes had been injured. The Texans led 21-0 after 15 minutes and extended that lead to 24-0 before the Chiefs got off the mat. Because...

Getty Images The home teams are touchdown favorites in the AFC and NFC Championship Games. In the AFC Championship Game, the Chiefs are 7 or 7.5-point favorites over the Titans, while in the NFC Championship Game, the 49ers are 7-point favorites over the Packers. The home team is usually...

Getty Images The “Andy Reid can’t coach in the playoffs” takes were loaded and ready to fire. Some went off prematurely. And then something strange happened. He began to. In his own way. There wasn’t a lot of yelling and screaming and flapping of arms from the veteran coach, but he made sure...

Getty Images One of the euphoric scenes from Sunday’s remarkable comeback win by the Chiefs was provided by left tackle Eric Fisher. After a touchdown by tight end Blake Bell in the fourth quarter of the 51-31 victory, Fisher celebrated by grabbing a couple of bottles of beer from the ledge of...

Getty Images In its 100-year history, the NFL has seen only six postseason games in which one team erased a deficit of 20 or more points to win. Chiefs coach Andy Reid made history on Sunday by becoming the only man to be on both sides of history. Six years ago, the Chiefs and Reid blew a...

Getty Images The Texans downgraded safety Jahleel Addae and Jordan Akins, announcing neither traveled with the team to Kansas City. Addae started against the Bills after starting three regular-season games, and he played 30 snaps before injuring his knee. The Texans have Mike Adams to fill...

Getty Images The Chiefs have suffered a big loss on their defensive line. Chris Jones, who was listed as questionable with a calf injury, tried to work out in pregame warmups and couldn’t do it, and the Chiefs have made him inactive today against the Texans. Jones is a key piece in the Chiefs’...

The Browns are the only NFL team without a head coach, but it may not remain that way for long. Josh McDaniels became the eighth person to interview for the Browns’ head coaching vacancy on Friday and he will be the last. PFT has learned, via a league source, that the team isn’t planning on...

Getty Images The Texans expect to have wide receiver Will Fuller back on the field on Sunday in Kansas City. Fuller is expected to play against the Chiefs despite a groin injury, James Palmer of NFL Network reports. The Texans’ offense typically plays much better with Fuller in the lineup and...

In 1990, the NFL expanded the playoff field from 10 to 12 teams, resulting in four (not two) teams earning a bye. More often than not, the home team that has had a week off wins. But the road teams still have a chance to get lucky. For the 29 postseasons since the change was made, the home...

Getty Images Texans receiver Will Fuller said Friday he is doing everything possible to play Sunday, calling it “the biggest game in team history.” But his groin will have to cooperate to make that happen. Texans coach Bill O’Brien called Fuller a game-time decision, and the team lists the...

Getty Images Chiefs fans won’t have to sit through a snowstorm Sunday, but the grounds crew will have to deal with it a day earlier. Kansas City is forecast to receive up to six inches of snow Saturday. The storm will end well before kickoff Sunday, and the Chiefs have a plan how to keep the...

Getty Images The Chiefs list tight end Travis Kelce and defensive tackle Chris Jones as questionable for Sunday’s game against the Texans. Kelce was limited in the three practices this week because of a knee injury. Chiefs coach Andy Reid called it “more a bruise than anything.” “He was out...

Getty Images The Texans beat the Chiefs 31-24 during the regular season in a game that saw the Chiefs play without defensive tackle Chris Jones and linebacker Anthony Hitchens. Defensive end Frank Clark did play in that game, but was suffering from a neck injury that eventually cost him two...