Watch: Butker kicks Chiefs to thrilling win with 51-yard FG

Kansas City Chiefs place kicker Harrison Butker (7) celebrates after kicking the game-winning field goal as time expires in the fourth quarter of the NFL Week 2 game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Cincinnati Bengals at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City on Sunday. Sam Greene/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Watch: Harrison Butker kicks Chiefs to thrilling win with 51-yard field goal

By Adam Gretz | Last updated Sep 15, 2024 8:22 PM ET

When the Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals meet you can be certain it is going to be a close, low-scoring game that is going to come down to a kick at the end.

Sunday's 26-25 Chiefs win was no exception.

It ended with Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker drilling a 51-yard field goal as time expired to lift the Chiefs to a 2-0 record and send the Bengals to their third consecutive 0-2 start.

Here is a look at Butker's kick.

BUTKER FOR THE WIN FROM 51 YARDS. #CINvsKC pic.twitter.com/KQU8cdT0Cr
— NFL (@NFL) September 15, 2024

There are a couple of interesting developments about this drive.

The first is that the Chiefs were aided by a huge pass interference penalty that helped set the Chiefs up in Cincinnati territory.

LOTS of speculation about the Chiefs and the Refs out there, but you can’t run through a guys back before the ball gets there and complain when they throw a flag. NO QUESTION THAT’S PASS INTERFERENCE. pic.twitter.com/QO97Uk0LhW
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) September 15, 2024

The other is that as soon as the Chiefs got into Butker's range, the usually aggressive Andy Reid seemed content to play for a long field goal without getting any closer or taking any risks.

He knows he has one of the NFL's best kickers, and he trusted him. It worked.

Adam Gretz

Adam Gretz is a freelance writer based in Pittsburgh. He covers the NHL, NFL, MLB and NBA. Baseball is his favorite sport -- he is nearly halfway through his goal of seeing a game in every MLB ballpark. Catch him on Twitter @AGretz

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