{"id":647711,"date":"2026-01-02T09:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647711\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:09:31","slug":"chiefs-face-raiders-week-18-news-injury-updates-and-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647711\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs face Raiders: Week 18 news, injury updates and previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In Week 18, the (6-10) <a href=\"http:\/\/ArrowheadPride.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> will travel west to play the (2-14) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverandblackpride.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> on Sunday afternoon at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada. Kickoff is set for 3:25 p.m. Arrowhead Time on Sunday \u2014 the final day of the 2025 regular season. The contest will be a rematch of the Week 7 game, which Kansas City <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/kansas-city-chiefs-news\/184401\/final-score-chiefs-defeat-raiders-31-0-in-week-7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won 31-0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The game will mark the end of a long, doomed campaign culminating in in third-string quarterback Chris Oladokun making his second consecutive start surrounded by a skeleton crew. He and the Kansas City offense are looking for a bounce-back performance after totaling just 139 yards in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/kansas-city-chiefs-news\/190732\/final-score-broncos-defeat-chiefs-20-13-nfl-week-17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">20-13 loss<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/milehighreport.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Broncos<\/a> on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While the Chiefs are riding a six-game losing streak, the Raiders have dropped 10 consecutive games after starting the season 2-4. The latest defeat came at home against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigblueview.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Giants<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverandblackpride.com\/nfl-draft\/118643\/las-vegas-raiders-new-york-giants-score-tank-nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a score of 34-10<\/a>. With another loss, Las Vegas would be gifted the consolation prize of the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Week 18, the (6-10) Kansas City Chiefs will travel west to play the (2-14) Las Vegas Raiders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,922,2438,2437,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-647711","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-news","13":"tag-kansascity","14":"tag-kansascitychiefs","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115824726584653600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647711","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=647711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}