{"id":356397,"date":"2025-09-10T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/356397\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:35:11","slug":"mahomes-earned-top-grade-in-chiefs-week-1-loss-to-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/356397\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahomes earned top grade in Chiefs&#8217; Week 1 loss to Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Highest-graded <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Chiefs<\/a> players in Week 1 contest vs the Chargers, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PFF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PFF<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47QB, Patrick Mahomes (79.0)<br \/>\ud83e\udd48DT, Chris Jones (73.5)<br \/>\ud83e\udd49CB, Trent McDuffie (70.2)<br \/>4) S, Bryan Cook (68.2)<br \/>5) LB, Drue Tranquill (66.5)<br \/>6) WR, JuJu Smith-Schuster (65.0)<\/p>\n<p>*minimum 20 snaps <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bdwhQ2b0D3\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bdwhQ2b0D3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KC Sports Network (@KCSportsNetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KCSportsNetwork\/status\/1964411032744448102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" data-autotag=\"e91367c2-d7b8-4bec-9359-95947acd6b0e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> are fresh off a gutwrenching loss to the Los Angeles Chargers in their first game of the 2025 regular season.<\/p>\n<p>With high expectations to start the new season with a win, the Chiefs came up short against Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert and were unable to stop one of the league&#8217;s best budding offenses.<\/p>\n<p>However, the silver lining was the play of Kansas City&#8217;s star quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, who put forth a superhuman effort to keep Los Angeles&#8217; lead within arm&#8217;s reach until the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p>The experts at Pro Football Focus took notice of Mahomes&#8217; extraordinary effort and awarded him with a grade of 79.0, the highest among his teammates in Friday&#8217;s loss to Chargers:<\/p>\n<p>Despite Mahomes&#8217; best efforts, the reigning AFC champions were ill-prepared to compete with the Chargers under head coach Jim Harbaugh.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s loss is sure to provide extra motivation for the Chiefs as they prepare to face their former Super Bowl foes, the Philadelphia Eagles, on Sunday, September 14.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highest-graded #Chiefs players in Week 1 contest vs the Chargers, via @PFF: \ud83e\udd47QB, Patrick Mahomes (79.0)\ud83e\udd48DT, Chris Jones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[247,265,825,346,739,324,7,1436,1389,20842,1435,1012,1066,1159,805,118,110,2438,2437,859,88,6,35196,245,537,858,499,530,1602,1982,9,266,1980],"class_list":{"0":"post-356397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-american-football-conference","11":"tag-chiefs","12":"tag-city","13":"tag-conference","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-harbaugh","16":"tag-herbert","17":"tag-hub","18":"tag-jim","19":"tag-jim-harbaugh","20":"tag-justin","21":"tag-justin-herbert","22":"tag-kansas","23":"tag-kansas-city","24":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","25":"tag-kansascity","26":"tag-kansascitychiefs","27":"tag-mahomes","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-nfl","30":"tag-nfl-hub","31":"tag-overall","32":"tag-overall-positive","33":"tag-patrick","34":"tag-patrick-mahomes","35":"tag-positive","36":"tag-smg","37":"tag-smg-timely","38":"tag-sports","39":"tag-sports-news","40":"tag-timely"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115179089496731567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356397","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=356397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}