{"id":555947,"date":"2026-03-31T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/555947\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:06:09","slug":"chiefs-will-not-be-seahawks-opening-day-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/555947\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs will not be Seahawks&#8217; opening-day opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seahawks will host the season opener on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Only the opponent is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>With the Rams and 49ers playing in Melbourne on Thursday, Sept. 10, the Seahawks\u2019 possible opponents are the Cardinals, Chiefs, Chargers, Bears, Cowboys, Giants and Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>You can now scratch off the Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>Chiefs owner Clark Hunt said Monday that his team will not start the season in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s on the table anymore,\u201d Hunt said, via Nate Taylor of ESPN. \u201cI think from a league standpoint, there <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByNateTaylor\/status\/2038728006534123950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">would be some concern<\/a> whether [Patrick Mahomes] would be ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in a Dec. 14 game, and Dr. Dan Cooper repaired the tear the following day. Mahomes <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/patrick-mahomes-posts-throwing-video-says-he-feels-great-three-months-after-torn-acl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">recently posted a video<\/a> to social media showing himself on the field throwing the ball. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seahawks will host the season opener on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Only the opponent is unknown. With the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-555947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}