{"id":618603,"date":"2025-12-22T02:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/618603\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T02:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:55:12","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-are-heavy-underdogs-to-broncos-in-week-17-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/618603\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs are heavy underdogs to Broncos in Week 17 odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It is safe to say the NFL did not imagine this reality when they scheduled the <a href=\"http:\/\/arrowheadpride.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> to host the <a href=\"http:\/\/milehighreport.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Broncos<\/a> on the Christmas evening edition of \u201cThursday Night Football\u201d in Week 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What was billed as a major divisional contest between a pair of 2024 playoff teams now sees the 6-9 Chiefs already eliminated from the postseason with superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes lost for the season with a torn ACL and LCL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Still, the teams will play on Thursday with kickoff scheduled for 7:15 p.m. Arrowhead time. The game will be broadcast nationally on Amazon Prime with local coverage available on KSHB\/41 in Kansas City and KMGH\/7 in Denver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In Week 11, the Chiefs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/kansas-city-chiefs-odds\/186213\/chi9efs-broncos-week-11-odds-kansas-city-favorites\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened as a 3.5-point favorites<\/a> when they traveled to Denver to face the Broncos. Ultimately, the Broncos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/kansas-city-chiefs-news\/186687\/final-score-broncos-defeat-chiefs-22-19-in-week-11\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won 22-19<\/a>. Oddsmakers weren\u2019t totally prepared to abandon Kansas City even in the wake of Mahomes\u2019 injury, and the Chiefs traveled to face the Tennessee Titans in Week 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/kansas-city-chiefs-odds\/189544\/chiefs-titans-week-16-odds-kansas-city-favorites\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as favorites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/kansas-city-chiefs-news\/190273\/final-score-titans-defeat-chiefs-26-9-in-nfl-week-17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">26-9 loss<\/a> to the Titans, however, the Chiefs lost backup quarterback Gardner Minshew \u2014 likely also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/kansas-city-chiefs-news\/190341\/chiefs-believe-quarterback-gardner-minshew-tore-acl-against-titans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to an ACL tear<\/a>. With longtime practice squad quarterback Chris Oladokun likely to start for Kansas City on Thursday, the Chiefs now face underdog odds not seen in a generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Although highly likely to make the postseason, the 12-3 Broncos still have work to do to hold off the 11-4 <a href=\"http:\/\/boltsfromtheblue.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> to win the AFC West. Denver will seek to get right after falling at home to the Jacksonville Jaguars 34-20 in Week 16. Denver opened as a 3.5-point favorite in that game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is safe to say the NFL did not imagine this reality when they scheduled the Kansas City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,58087,2438,2437,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-618603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-odds","13":"tag-kansascity","14":"tag-kansascitychiefs","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115760970116808904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618603","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=618603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}