The Chiefs eventually will choose between the renovation of Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri and the construction of a domed stadium across the border in Kansas.
There’s a possibility that a roof could be coming to the team’s current open-air home.
“There’s some interesting architectural improvements to make to Arrowhead that could be conducive to an all-weather protective environment without being a full dome,” Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe told the Associated Press on Tuesday. “I would say, look at some of the structures that are in Europe that may have some sort of fabric device that goes over it.”
The retractable roof possibly would be used not for Chiefs games but for other events, expanding the use of the facility — and, in turn, the revenue it generates.
Kehoe said Chiefs fans “like the rough and tough and getting outside.” (But probably not the ones that got frostbite in the playoff game against the Dolphins.) “So I think the ownership group does realize that the fan base likes the environment they’re in and would love to continue with a legacy experience at Arrowhead.”
The current push for domes is all about money. As in making more of it, by having more things there during the winter months. Preserving the outdoor-football experience while making a venue a year-round possibility is a needle that the Chiefs and Missouri may try to thread, while preserving the 52-year-old home of franchise.
The bigger issue for the Chiefs is getting the best possible deal for a new stadium. The team has managed to create a no-lose situation, with two communities in two adjoining states trying to win the competition for hosting the Chiefs.
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As the Chiefs return from their bye, they will have their first-round pick back on the field.
Head coach Andy Reid confirmed in his Monday news conference that left tackle Josh Simmons is back with the team and is expected to practice this week.
Simmons had been in California tending to a personal matter. He has not played since the Week 5 loss to the Jaguars.
“I think what we’ll do is see where we’re at here,” Reid said of getting Simmons back to play. “We know we’ve got a good player in there now and we know what Josh is capable of and all that. So, we’ll just see where we’re at when they get back.”
Simmons was the No. 32 overall pick of this year’s draft. Jaylon Moore has been playing at left tackle during Simmons’ absence.
Reid also noted that the club will have to see if Isiah Pacheco will be available this week, as the running back is dealing with a knee injury. While right tackle Jawaan Taylor also suffered an ankle injury during the Week 9 loss to the Bills, Reid noted Taylor was feeling better before players departed for the bye.
Playing the Broncos on Sunday, the Chiefs’ first injury report of the week will be released on Wednesday.
Josh Allen? Nope. Patrick Mahomes? Nope. Lamar Jackson? Nope. Aaron Rodgers? Please.
Since 2018, one of those four quarterbacks has won the NFL MVP award. Currently, none is the favorite to win it in 2025.
Right now, at +275, it’s Patriots quarterback Drake Maye. Hot on his heels is Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, at +300.
Both had impressive road wins in Week 10, with New England toppling the Bucs, 28-23, and the Rams evening the regular-season series with the 49ers, 42-26. And Stafford is the first player to have three straight games with four or more touchdown passes and no interceptions.
Mahomes lands next, at 5-1, followed by Colts running back Jonathan Taylor at 6-1, Allen at 7-1, and Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold at 10-1.
Jackson is currently 25-1. Rodgers has plummeted to 150-1.
There’s still plenty of football to be played. And it fluctuates every week. Still, the Patriots are 8-2. They face the Jets, Bengals, and Giants before their bye. They should be 11-2 at that point.
Then come games against the Bills and the resurgent Ravens, followed by the Jets and Dolphins to end the season.
The No. 1 seed is within reach for New England. Which puts the MVP award squarely within Maye’s grasp.
Of course, the Rams could also end up with the No. 1 seed in the NFC. Which could boost Stafford. Who has never won it, and who could benefit from the perception that it’s his last chance to do so — with Maye having many more opportunities.
Yeah, the Denver offense did not perform well on Thursday night. Quarterback Bo Nix heard it from the home fans, who definitely weren’t chanting (“Bo-ooooo”).
Nix completed 16 of 28 passes for 150 yards, one touchdown, two interceptions, an average of 5.35 yards per attempt, and a passer rating of 54.2.
Still, Nix’s lone touchdown pass pulled him into a tie with Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford for the most total touchdowns in 2025, with 21.
Nix has played 10 games. Mahomes has played nine, and Stafford has played only eight. When the Rams visit the 49ers on Sunday, there’s a very good chance Stafford will take the lead in his ninth game of the seaosn.
Regardless, Nix is quietly racking up passing touchdowns (18) and rushing touchdowns (three). In eight days, he’ll try to add to that number against Mahomes and the Chiefs in a game that will be critical to the eventual championship of the AFC West.
The Steelers have added some depth to their defensive line.
Pittsburgh announced on Thursday that the club has signed defensive tackle Brodric Martin-Rhodes to its 53-man roster off of Kansas City’s practice squad.
Martin-Rhodes, 26, was a Lions third-round pick in 2023. He appeared in three games for Detroit as a rookie and two games for the Lions last season before he was waived during this year’s roster cuts in August.
He subsequently signed with the Chiefs’ practice squad. He has not appeared in a game so far in 2025.
The Jets made some high-profile trades this week, sending players elsewhere for significant future assets.
But there was at least one deal New York apparently elected not to make.
According to Nate Taylor of ESPN, the Jets turned down an offer from the Chiefs for running back Breece Hall.
Taylor reports Kansas City was willing to trade a 2026 fourth-round pick for Hall, but New York wanted a third-round selection. While Hall was willing to be moved after the trades of cornerback Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams, the Chiefs and Jets could not come to an agreement, so Hall stayed put.
The Chiefs felt a third-round pick in 2026 with contractual control for four years was more valuable than eight games and a potential postseason run with Hall.
Chiefs starting running back Isiah Pacheco is currently dealing with an MCL sprain, but Taylor notes the club is optimistic Pacheco will be able to return after a Week 10 bye. Kareem Hunt and Brashard Smith have also been options at running back this season, while Elijah Mitchell remains on the 53-man roster and Clyde Edwards-Helaire is on the practice squad.
Hall has rushed for 581 yards with two touchdowns this season, averaging 5.0 yards per carry. He’s also caught 21 passes for 178 yards.
Bill Belichick and Tom Coughlin squared off in a pair of Super Bowls between the Patriots and Giants and they’ll square off again as they try to make it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The Hall named nine coaching semifinalists for election as part of the Class of 2026 and the group includes both Belichick and Coughlin. Coughlin’s teams prevailed in both of the Super Bowls while Belichick won six others during his time with the Patriots.
Mike Holmgren, Chuck Knox, Buddy Parker, Dan Reeves, Marty Schottenheimer, George Seifert, and Mike Shanahan are the other semifinalists. Coughlin, Holmgren, Knox, Reeves, Schottenheimer, Seifert, and Shanahan also reached this stage last year.
Holmgren moved on as a finalist, but fell short of the votes needed for election. The coach blue-ribbon committee will meet on November 18 to select this year’s finalist for consideration by the Hall’s selection committee.
Every network wants to televise the now-annual regular-season game between the Chiefs and the Bills. And for good reason.
The game delivers.
Via Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal, 30.8 million on average watched the late-afternoon Sunday game on CBS.
It’s the fifth-highest audience for a regular-season game on CBS since it returned to the small pool of NFL broadcast partners in 1998.
But it wasn’t the most-watched regular-season game of the season. In Week 2, 33,8 million watched Eagles-Chiefs on Fox.
The common thread is the Chiefs. Even at 5-4 and in third place in the AFC West, Kansas City is the new America’s Team.
Three weeks from tomorrow, CBS will benefit from that dynamic in a major way, when the new America’s Team faces the original America’s Team in the late-afternoon window on Thanksgiving in a contest that is destined to be the most-watched regular-season game in NFL history.
Does the trade deadline matter? In recent years, it absolutely has.
Here’s a fascinating nugget from John Todd, a researcher at NFL Media: “An in-season acquisition has scored a touchdown in each of the last 5 Super Bowls, the last 3 via trade.”
Per Todd, a grand total of zero in-season acquisitions scored a touchdown in any of the Super Bowls from the 1997 through 2018 seasons.
The touchdown scorers in the past five Super Bowls were Chiefs receiver DeAndre Hopkins in Super Bowl LIX, Chiefs receiver Mecole Hardman in Super Bowl LVIII, Chiefs receiver Kadarius Toney in Super Bowl LVII, Rams receiver Odell Beckham Jr. in Super Bowl LVI, and Buccaneers receiver Antonio Brown in Super Bowl LV.
The most significant touchdown of the five came in Super Bowl LVIII, when Hardman caught the overtime game-winner.
So, yes, a trade that happens today could yield a very specific benefit when Super Bowl LX is played, in little more than three months.
But the benefits are decidedly short term. Of the five players who scored touchdowns after a mid-season arrival, only one of them is still in the NFL.
The Chiefs offensive line struggled against the Bills pass rush in Sunday’s 28-21 loss, but there appears to be some help on the way.
According to multiple reports, rookie left tackle Josh Simmons is back at the team’s facility on Monday. Simmons, who was a first-round pick in April, started the first five games of the season and has missed the last four while attending to personal matters.
The Chiefs have a bye in Week 10, which will give Simmons some extra time to re-acclimate himself before the team’s next game against the Broncos in Week 11.
Jaylon Moore has been playing left tackle with Simmons out of the lineup. The Chiefs also saw right tackle Jawaan Taylor and left guard Kingsley Suamataia leave with injuries during their loss in Buffalo.
