For the first time in a decade, the Chiefs enter Week 12 with their playoff hopes up in the air.
Through 10 games, Kansas City is 5–5. The Chiefs have four fewer wins than the first-place Broncos and are one game behind the Jaguars, who hold the AFC’s final wild-card spot and beat Kansas City 31–28 back in early October. Of the 989 teams in the Super Bowl era to start 5-5 or worse through 10 games, just 9% went on to make the postseason, and only one won the Super Bowl—the 2001 Patriots.
