{"id":67260,"date":"2025-07-09T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=67260"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:07:06","slug":"chiefs-news-may-give-patrick-mahomes-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=67260","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs News May Give Patrick Mahomes Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2220781382-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2220781382-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2220781382-1.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2220781382-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Chiefs News May Give Patrick Mahomes Nightmares\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs are heading into a new season, and the best way to bring home a championship with Patrick Mahomes is to be prepared.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With so many championships under their belt over the past few years, the Kansas City Chiefs are easily considered one of the best teams in the NFL. So, one would think that quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who brings the numbers, would feel pretty good going into the new season, but one might be wrong. Mahomes might have an uphill battle, judging by some new research.<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes is one of those quarterbacks who\u2019s gifted enough to deliver with or without a solid offense around him. But, as with any NFL quarterback, it\u2019s sure a lot better when he has a strong offense surrounding him. That\u2019s often been the case with the Kansas City Chiefs, so Mahomes has been fortunate. But, if the team wants to win another championship soon, it\u2019s something they\u2019ll have to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the\u00a02025-26 Chiefs season is approaching, it\u2019s an apt time to study the Chiefs\u2019 roster and see if they have enough power and grit going into the new season to help Mahomes win another championship for Kansas City. It would be a dream to see the Chiefs go all the way again, and it would give Travis Kelce the opportunity to retire with a championship win, but first, the hard work has to be done. A lot of that has to do with Mahomes and the players around him.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Chiefs Offense News May Make Patrick Mahomes Sweat<\/h2>\n<p>The Chiefs have enjoyed a solid offense as of late, and head coach Andy Reid is a wise man who knows how to build a team. In a Tuesday, July 8 feature for ESPN, NFL expert Bill Barnwell discusses the best offenses in the NFL, and the Chiefs are one of the teams that he profiles.<\/p>\n<p>So, let\u2019s get to the Chiefs. Barnwell has Kansas City\u2019s offense at No. 12 on the roster. It\u2019s wild to think that a team that\u2019s had as many championships as the Chiefs in recent years wouldn\u2019t even have a top 10 offense going into the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>Right away, he has a little dig at Kelce, stating that \u201cwhile there were occasional glimmers of the old Travis Kelce, it\u2019s fair to say Father Time might have finally gotten to the best tight end in NFL history\u201d and names off some statistics showing that, for the most part, Kelce\u2019s numbers in 2024 weren\u2019t what they have been in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d argue that Kelce is still an above-average tight end with this skill set given how difficult it is to find real upside at the position,\u201d he adds, \u201cbut I\u2019m expecting something a lot closer to the 2024 version than the dominant 2022 edition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds that the team\u2019s running back position is \u201cmuddled\u201d following Isiah Pacheco\u2019s last season, in which he suffered a fractured fibula. On the bright side, Barnwell is \u201ccautiously optimistic about the Chiefs\u2019 wide receivers,\u201d so that\u2019s a good thing. What\u2019s not to love about Rashee Rice being back and healthy again?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Chiefs can somehow get full seasons out of Rice, Worthy and oft-injured third wideout Hollywood Brown, we could see something more like the younger, more explosive version of Patrick Mahomes,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Slightly Better News for the Chiefs<\/h2>\n<p>ESPN and Barnwell aren\u2019t alone in their views on the Chiefs\u2019 offense. Gennaro Filice of NFL.com names the best offenses in the NFL in a June 11 piece, and he doesn\u2019t have the Chiefs ranked inside the top 10 for 2024 but, thankfully, does have them at No. 10 for the 2025-26 run.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, he notes that \u201cafter weighing all viable options at No. 10,\u201d he\u2019s taking the \u201cthe easy way out: Betting on Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes.\u201d We like that.<\/p>\n<p>Anne Erickson is an award-winning reporter for Heavy Sports covering the NFL, NBA and college football. Anne Erickson has years of experience covering the NFL and additional sports, and her work has been published via ESPN, Fox Sports and more. She has interviewed some of the biggest names in sports, including Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff. Erickson also hosts several podcasts and is a Detroit-based radio host. More about Anne Erickson<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Chiefs<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs are heading into a new season, and the best way to bring home a championship with Patrick Mahomes is to be prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":67261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chiefs News May Give Patrick Mahomes Nightmares - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=67260\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chiefs News May Give Patrick Mahomes Nightmares - 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