{"id":1018899,"date":"2026-10-05T02:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1018899\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T02:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:54:14","slug":"chiefs-raiders-mike-caliendo-starts-over-kingsley-suamataia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1018899\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs-Raiders: Mike Caliendo starts over Kingsley Suamataia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/arrowheadpride.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> received the opening kickoff in the big-time AFC West bout against the <a href=\"https:\/\/silverandblackpride.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> on Sunday afternoon. When the offense took the field, it was noticeable that the left guard position was filled by a surprising name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Veteran backup lineman Mike Caliendo started at left guard in place of third-year player Kingsley Suamataia, who was not on the injury report at any point this week. It is Caliendo\u2019s eighth career start, all with the Chiefs. Suamataia has manned the position since the beginning of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">At the end of the first quarter, Sam McDowell of the Kansas City Star reported that the swap \u201cis a coaching decision\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamMcDowell11\/status\/2106851985702232181?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">not related to any injury<\/a>, according to the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Kansas City\u2019s opening set of plays, a second-down handoff was disrupted and stopped by the defender that Caliendo was blocking. After a successful fake punt kept the Chiefs\u2019 opening drive alive, the Raiders stuffed two consecutive runs on third and fourth down, needing two yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Suamataia has been playing well this season, and there\u2019s reason to believe his absence at the start of the game hurt the offense\u2019s effectiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs received the opening kickoff in the big-time AFC West bout against the Las Vegas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1018900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,80177,922],"class_list":["post-1018899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-analysis","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117386049171638393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}