Chiefs 2024 NFL Schedule: Dates, times, primetime, analysis and more

The 2024 Kansas City Chiefs’ regular-season schedule is right here!

The most important sport on the schedule: Week 2 towards the Cincinnati Bengals at 3:25 p.m.

Right here’s the lucky reality for Chiefs followers: while you’re the back-to-back Super Bowl champions, it turns into awfully troublesome to decide on the “greatest sport on the schedule.”

Within the period earlier than quarterback Patrick Mahomes, this was simple: choose the primary sport on the schedule towards the Denver Broncos. Later, because the Chiefs had extra divisional success, it might be a group just like the Indianapolis Colts or Pittsburgh Steelers. Towards the top of Alex Smith’s run as quarterback — because the group transitioned to Mahomes — it was the New England Patriots or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Kansas Metropolis has been on prime of the mountain for greater than 26 months. I don’t know if there’s an genuine “greatest” regular-season sport for them anymore. However that is our yearly train, so my hand is compelled. I’m going with the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 2.

Two — and solely two — quarterbacks have managed to cease Mahomes within the postseason. The colour commentator for the Tremendous Bowl rematch (one other truthful alternative) in Week 7, Tom Brady, who’s retired, is certainly one of them. The opposite is Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.

Burrow and Mahomes traded AFC Championship wins in 2021 and 2022, through which the Bengals slipped up towards the Los Angeles Rams and the Chiefs completed the job towards the Philadelphia Eagles. Week 17 of the 2023 season was considered the proper time to pit Mahomes towards Burrow — as a result of given the timing, there was a good likelihood the competition may decide the No. 1 seed within the convention.

It was to not be. Burrow misplaced his season in November attributable to a torn wrist ligament. Though Cincinnati carried out admirably underneath Jake Browning, Kansas Metropolis gained 25-17.

I don’t suppose there’s a “greatest sport” for this group anymore. But when I’ve to decide on, give me the matchup towards the quarterback who some NFL followers would declare is the one lively participant who has confirmed he can go toe-to-toe with Mahomes with the season on the road.

Shut behind: As famous, the Chiefs have a rematch with the San Francisco 49ers on their schedule in Week 7. The AFC Championship rematch towards the Baltimore Ravens takes place on opening evening (extra under), they usually go up towards the Buffalo Bills in Week 11.

Odds and ends: The Chiefs start the NFL season on Thursday evening, September 5, on GEHA Discipline at Arrowhead Stadium towards the Ravens (they’ve opened as 3-point favorites, according to DraftKings Sportsbook).

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Fast evaluation

The Chiefs have 5 primetime video games as a part of eight standalone video games.

The standalone video games occur on opening evening internet hosting the Ravens (Week 1), “Sunday Evening Soccer” visiting the Atlanta Falcons (Week 3), “Monday Evening Soccer” internet hosting the New Orleans Saints (Week 5), “Monday Evening Soccer” internet hosting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Week 9), Black Friday internet hosting the Las Vegas Raiders (Week 13), “Sunday Evening Soccer” towards the Los Angeles Chargers (Week 14), Saturday afternoon internet hosting the Houston Texans (Week 16) and Christmas Day visiting the Pittsburgh Steelers (Week 17).

It might be argued that this is without doubt one of the extra distinctive NFL schedules of all time, contemplating the Chiefs will play on six completely different days of the week; the one day they don’t seem to be scheduled for is Tuesday.

Discovering correct relaxation is likely to be a problem for the Chiefs. Kansas Metropolis has a Week 6 bye week — the earliest it has been in a very long time — and it’ll face the Denver Broncos (Week 10), Raiders (Week 13), Texans (Week 16) and Steelers (Week 17) on brief relaxation. The three matchups from Weeks 15 to 17 will happen over the course of 10 days.

The Chiefs’ division matchups are sprinkled all through the schedule, aside from Weeks 13-14, after they play the Raiders and Chargers again to again. Kansas Metropolis really has 5 video games scheduled with a Midday begin time, a breath of contemporary air after seeing solely two right now final season.

As talked about, from a technical schedule standpoint, the Chiefs have 5 primetime video games and might be flexed into as many as seven — or out totally. Flex scheduling takes place from Weeks 11-17.

Energy of schedule

The Chiefs play the seventeenth hardest schedule within the league in 2024, according to their opponents’ 2023 records.