Chiefs Streaks: 3 Impressive Strings That Ended Sunday

No longer seeing red

That Christmas Day game in Week 16 of the 2023 season also was the last time the Chiefs had lost a game while wearing red jerseys. Before Sunday’s loss, the stretch had spanned 14 wins, including the frigid wild-card victory over Miami in the 2023 playoffs, the overtime Super Bowl win over San Francisco and a road game last year at Cleveland, where Trent McDuffie  registered his elusive initial career interception.

End of league-long stretch without three-game losing streak

Kansas City had played 121 straight regular-season games since it last lost three straight regular-season games. According to Elias Sports Bureau, it was the NFL’s longest active stretch of regular-season games without such a losing streak. Buffalo (108) now owns that title.

The last time the Chiefs endured that long of a regular-season losing streak was a four-game stretch from Nov. 5-Dec. 3, 2017, a month before Mahomes made his first NFL start. And including that season-finale start, a 27-24 victory at Denver on Dec. 31, 2017, the Chiefs answered that string of four losses with four straight wins. However, Kansas City lost in the first round of the AFC playoffs, 22-21, to the Titans.

In Week 1, the Chiefs’ NFL-record streak of 17 wins in one-score games ended in a 27-21 Brazil loss to the Chargers. Their 20-17 setback on Sunday marked their first Arrowhead Stadium loss in a one-score game since Christmas Day, 2023 – a 20-14 loss to the Raiders.

382 weeks

The AFC West battle on Monday Night Football at Allegiant Stadium could drop the Chiefs into even more history. If Las Vegas beats the Chargers, the Raiders will have sole possession of first place in the division and the Chiefs will have sole possession of last for the first time since Week 15 of the 2002 season – according to Josh Dubow of the Associated Press.

Since the Chiefs woke up in last place that day nearly 23 years ago, the NFL has played 382 regular-season weeks.