Kansas City Chiefs<\/p>\n
2025 Rank: 20th<\/p>\n
Best-Case Scenario: Kenneth Walker Steadies the Ground Game with Patrick Mahomes at 100 Percent<\/p>\n
The once-vaunted Kansas City Chiefs offense had two big problems in 2025, even before Patrick Mahomes suffered a season-ending ACL tear. They lacked reliable pass-catchers who could generate big plays, and they struggled to field a functional ground game.<\/p>\n
Ideally, the offseason addition of reigning Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker III will take care of the second problem. While Kansas City\u2019s receiving corps is still questionable, the Chiefs will need Mahomes to be healthy and at 100 percent for most of the season to significantly rebound in the passing game.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, Mahomes is recovering well and was even a participant at OTAs.<\/p>\n
If Walker can deliver a top-tier rushing attack and Mahomes can, well, be Mahomes, Kansas City should return to having an above-average offense.<\/p>\n
Worst-Case Scenario: The Receiving Corps Isn\u2019t Functional<\/p>\n
Even if Mahomes is healthy, that won\u2019t be enough to guarantee a potent passing attack. Kansas City\u2019s receiving corps wasn\u2019t nearly good enough in 2025, and the Chiefs have done nothing to address it, aside from drafting Cyrus Allen in the sixth round.<\/p>\n
Top receiver Rashee Rice, meanwhile, is recovering from knee surgery and had his rehab interrupted when he was ordered to serve a 30-day jail sentence for violating his probation. The depth behind Rice at receiver is shaky\u2014Xavier Worthy is the only other returning wideout who topped 500 yards last season\u2014and star tight end Travis Kelce (36) isn\u2019t getting any younger.<\/p>\n
In a worst-case scenario, Mahomes is healthy enough to make Kansas City playoff-relevant, but the Chiefs simply lack the skill players to be an actual postseason threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs 2025 Rank: 20th Best-Case Scenario: Kenneth Walker Steadies the Ground Game with Patrick Mahomes at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[6190,346,7,118,110,922,2438,2437,6],"class_list":["post-920376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-arrowheadlines","tag-chiefs","tag-football","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascitychiefs","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116759396608671363","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920376","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=920376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}