{"id":275585,"date":"2025-08-10T00:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T00:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/275585\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T00:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T00:31:20","slug":"this-chiefs-rookie-made-a-clutch-fumble-recovery-to-begin-preseason-matchup-vs-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/275585\/","title":{"rendered":"This Chiefs rookie made a clutch fumble recovery to begin preseason matchup vs. Cardinals"},"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> wasted no time producing their first highlight reel play of the preseason against the Arizona Cardinals on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>After Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker booted the ball downfield to start the game, second-year defensive back Chris Roland-Wallace forced a fumble against Cardinals returner Greg Dortch. One of Kansas City&#8217;s rookies, dynamic running back Brashard Smith, recovered the ball, which set up the Chiefs&#8217; offense in Arizona territory early.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Star quarterback Patrick Mahomes would throw a touchdown pass to wide receiver Jason Brownlee on Kansas City&#8217;s first drive, which gave the Chiefs their first lead of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the outstanding special teams play that got Kansas City off to a hot start:<\/p>\n<p>While Roland-Wallace and Smith were expected to make their presence felt as members of the Chiefs&#8217; defense and offense, respectively, neither could have predicted that their outstanding attention to detail on special teams would be what made the most difference early in the game.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2025\/08\/09\/brashard-smith-recovers-fumble-opening-kickoff-chiefs-preseason\/85594832007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brashard Smith recovers fumble on opening kickoff of Chiefs preseason;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brashard Smith recovers fumble on opening kickoff of Chiefs preseason<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs wasted no time producing their first highlight reel play of the preseason against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[390,3285,346,52705,7,11500,13349,53299,118,110,2438,2437,6,499],"class_list":{"0":"post-275585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-brashard-smith","10":"tag-chiefs","11":"tag-chris-roland-wallace","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-greg-dortch","14":"tag-harrison-butker","15":"tag-jason-brownlee","16":"tag-kansas-city","17":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","18":"tag-kansascity","19":"tag-kansascitychiefs","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-patrick-mahomes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115001654349424314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275585","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=275585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}