Kansas City then answered with a 50-yard field goal by Wright on the Chiefs’ ensuing drive that reclaimed the lead, but the Chargers responded right back with a go-ahead, 37-yard field goal of their own a series later.<\/p>\n
It was nearly worse, however, as Los Angeles drove all the way to the Chiefs’ 17-yard line before defensive lineman Tershawn Wharton sacked Chargers’ quarterback Justin Herbert for a loss of seven yards on second down. The sack essentially stalled the Chargers’ drive and forced a field goal attempt two snaps later, and while the kick briefly put Los Angeles back in front, it also meant that Mahomes and company only needed a field goal to win the game.<\/p>\n
Kansas City started its final drive at the 40-yard line after a kickoff infraction by the Chargers, and 14 snaps and three third-down conversions later, Wright secured the victory for the Chiefs.<\/p>\n
Mahomes converted a 3rd-and-10 early in the series with a 14-yard pass to wide receiver Xavier Worthy and later found tight end Travis Kelce for another critical third-down conversion deep in Chargers’ territory. The latter throw, which took place on 3rd-and-7 and picked up nine yards, meant that Kansas City could kick the go-ahead field goal as time expired rather than providing Los Angeles with a chance to answer.<\/p>\n
“[The Chargers] did a good job of covering [the third-down play], and then Trav just played ball and got himself open,” Mahomes said. “We were able to find a way to get that throw to Trav there and get the first down.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City then answered with a 50-yard field goal by Wright on the Chiefs’ ensuing drive that reclaimed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[501,241,346,7,497,118,110,1014,262,2444,2443,6,498,499,505,503,502,504,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-168295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-andy-reid","9":"tag-chargers","10":"tag-chiefs","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-geha-field-at-arrowhead-stadium","13":"tag-kansas-city","14":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangeleschargers","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-nfl-football","21":"tag-patrick-mahomes","22":"tag-super-bowl","23":"tag-super-bowl-iv","24":"tag-super-bowl-liv","25":"tag-super-bowl-lvii","26":"tag-travis-kelce"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114767793131857080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168295","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=168295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}