{"id":628864,"date":"2025-12-26T02:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/628864\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T02:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:17:24","slug":"chiefs-vs-broncos-kc-leads-after-nick-bolton-int-brashard-smith-td","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/628864\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs vs. Broncos: KC leads after Nick Bolton INT, Brashard Smith TD"},"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> were quick to score a touchdown in their Christmas Day matchup against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/denver-broncos\/332\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Denver Broncos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Denver Broncos<\/a> at Arrowhead Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>After the Broncos took an early 3-0 lead in the first quarter, linebacker Nick Bolton made a diving interception off a tipped ball by defensive back Kristian Fulton on Denver&#8217;s second drive.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Chris Oladokun marched the offense down the field for a ten-play, 35-yard drive that ended in a touchdown reception by running back Brashard Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at these videos of Bolton&#8217;s interception and Smith&#8217;s touchdown, which were posted to Twitter by the Chiefs&#8217; official account:<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s matchup marks Oladokun&#8217;s first NFL start after the loss of quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes and Gardner Minshew in Weeks 15 and 16, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs will look to play spoiler against the Broncos, who can clinch the first overall seed in the AFC playoffs with a win against the reigning conference champions.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2025\/12\/25\/nick-bolton-interception-brashard-smith-touchdown-chiefs-broncos-nfl-week-17\/87916101007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chiefs vs. Broncos: Nick Bolton INT leads to Brashard Smith TD;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chiefs vs. Broncos: Nick Bolton INT leads to Brashard Smith TD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs were quick to score a touchdown in their Christmas Day matchup against the Denver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[3285,346,7836,258,7,8132,118,110,2438,2437,5408,6,2887,499,49142],"class_list":{"0":"post-628864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-brashard-smith","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-chris-oladokun","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-gardner-minshew","14":"tag-kansas-city","15":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","16":"tag-kansascity","17":"tag-kansascitychiefs","18":"tag-kristian-fulton","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-nick-bolton","21":"tag-patrick-mahomes","22":"tag-touchdown-reception"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115783470024546877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628864","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=628864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}