The Kansas City Chiefs have dealt with a challenging schedule all season, and with five games left to play, the defending Super Bowl champions aren’t out of the woods yet.
According to the experts at Pro Football Network, Kansas City’s remaining strength of schedule is the seventh-hardest in the NFL heading into Week 14.
The Chiefs control their own destiny in the race to win the AFC’s No. 1 playoff seed but will have to face the Los Angeles Chargers, Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Denver Broncos to earn a coveted first-round bye and home-field advantage in the postseason.
When the 2024 schedule came out, it seemed that Kansas City’s most difficult task would be its first five games before the Chiefs’ bye in Week 6.
After opening the season with matchups against the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals, in Weeks 1 and 2 Kansas City’s biggest second-half test was a Week 11 matchup against the Buffalo Bills, which resulted in the Chiefs’ only loss.
