{"id":147420,"date":"2025-06-21T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/147420\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:10:13","slug":"nfl-writer-breaks-down-potential-scenarios-for-the-kansas-city-chiefs-in-the-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/147420\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL writer breaks down potential scenarios for the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> just completed mandatory minicamp this week, focusing on their return to the Super Bowl. They continue to be mentioned in offseason discussions regarding the team&#8217;s status going into the new season.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Sports recently released an article outlining the best-case and worst-case scenarios for every team in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Best-case scenario: Patrick Mahomes&#8217; O-line recovers from an ugly Super Bowl, a freshened-up pass catching corps led by Xavier Worthy and Rashee Rice reignites the deep attack, and the dynasty captures yet another championship.<\/p>\n<p>Wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/best-and-worst-case-scenarios-for-every-nfl-team-in-2025-chiefs-back-on-top-bears-to-end-playoff-drought\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CBS Sports writer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CBS Sports writer<\/a> Cody Benjamin, who addressed the flipside of Mahomes being forced to scramble.<\/p>\n<p>Worst-case scenario: The line is reworked but no less unstable, forcing Mahomes to scramble more than he&#8217;d like, and Andy Reid&#8217;s scheming can&#8217;t undo lingering injuries. They fail to make the Super Bowl for the first time in four years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs have won nine consecutive division titles, the second-longest streak of division championships for any team in league history. Only the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-england-patriots\/348\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New England Patriots;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New England Patriots<\/a>, who won 11 successive AFC East titles from 2009 to 2019, had a longer streak.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes has additional help on the offensive line with rookie left tackle Josh Simmons and the signing of veteran Jaylon Moore.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2025\/06\/21\/nfl-writer-breaks-down-potential-scenarios-for-the-kansas-city-chiefs-in-2025\/84233611007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL writer breaks down potential scenarios for the Chiefs in 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NFL writer breaks down potential scenarios for the Chiefs in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs just completed mandatory minicamp this week, focusing on their return to the Super Bowl.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3244,14488,7,1488,110,859,3564,249,6,33966],"class_list":{"0":"post-147420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-cbs-sports","9":"tag-consecutive-division-titles","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-josh-simmons","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","13":"tag-mahomes","14":"tag-moore","15":"tag-new-england-patriots","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-worst-case-scenarios"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114721287486907300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147420","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=147420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}