{"id":853227,"date":"2026-04-04T13:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/853227\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:22:14","slug":"mahomes-fields-chiefs-pairing-makes-for-interesting-offensive-tweak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/853227\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahomes, Fields Chiefs Pairing Makes For Interesting Offensive Tweak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Last season was a wake-up call for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/kansas_city_chiefs\/39\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>, who failed to make the playoffs for the first time in a decade just one season after reaching a rare third consecutive Super Bowl. They needed to find their way again, and the roster required a serious retooling on both sides of the ball. <\/p>\n<p>Through trades and free agent signings, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/chiefs\/onsi\/4-round-kansas-city-mock-draft-following-pro-days\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chiefs<\/a>  have done just that. It will be a much different roster than it was at the end of the regular season, as younger players, rookies, and stop-gaps fill the holes that are surrounded by high-end talents across the board. This includes the best quarterback in the land, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/patrick_mahomes\/513721\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Mahomes<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last season was a wake-up call for the Kansas City Chiefs, who failed to make the playoffs for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,2438,2437,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-853227","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-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascitychiefs","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116346653770385544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853227","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=853227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}