In a game they probably shouldn\u2019t have won, the Broncos beat the Chiefs with a goal-line stand in the final seconds. <\/p>\n
Denver stopped Kansas City four times inside the 10-yard line, winning 28-24 for Sean Payton\u2019s 200th career victory, including the postseason. The Broncos lead the AFC West at 6-2, while the Chiefs fell to 5-2 with a second consecutive loss.<\/p>\n
Denver trailed 24-13 in the fourth quarter before scoring 15 consecutive points for its fourth comeback win of the season.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs uncharacteristically fell apart when it mattered most.<\/p>\n
They had a chance to pad their lead, but Harrison Butker missed a 54-yard field goal wide right with 2:31 remaining. It came after Alex Singleton sacked Patrick Mahomes for 6-yard loss.<\/p>\n
Butker is in danger of losing his job after the Chiefs signed Justin Tucker to the practice squad last week. The 10-year veteran has missed 6 of 17 field-goal attempts this season, including two misses in last week\u2019s loss to the Seahawks.<\/p>\n
Two plays, 56 yards and 35 seconds later, the Broncos led for the first time. Jonah Coleman had a 51-yard catch-and-run before a 5-yard touchdown run. The Broncos led 28-24 with 1:56 left.<\/p>\n
Emmett Johnson, the star for the Chiefs on Sunday, returned the kickoff 44 yards to the Kansas City 44, and two plays later, Mahomes found Travis Kelce for a 32-yard gain to the Denver 18. <\/p>\n
The Chiefs had first-and-goal at the 4 with 35 seconds left. Kenneth Walker ran for 3 yards to the 1 before Patrick Surtain tackled him; Mahomes threw incomplete; and Walker was stopped for no gain by safety JL Skinner. That set up a final play with four seconds left, and after a false start, Malcolm Roach sacked Mahomes to end the game.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs outgained the Broncos 399 to 294 as Mahomes went 30-of-41 for 321 yards and three touchdowns. Johnson caught five passes for 128 yards and a touchdown and had a 15-yard run. Kelce added five catches for 67 yards.<\/p>\n
Bo Nix was 20-of-32 for 222 yards and two touchdowns, going 5-of-6 for 84 yards and a touchdown in the fourth quarter. Coleman had 11 carries for 41 yards and a touchdown and four catches for 63 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a game they probably shouldn\u2019t have won, the Broncos beat the Chiefs with a goal-line stand in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-949417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}