The NFL did the Chiefs a favor, giving them an early off week as Patrick Mahomes works his way back.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs and Panthers have the earliest possible bye, getting an off week in Week 5.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs quarterback tore the ACL and LCL in his left knee in a Dec. 14 game against the Chargers and underwent surgery the following day. There is no timeline for his return, although Mahomes reportedly is ahead of schedule in his rehab and is shooting for Week 1.<\/p>\n
If he\u2019s not ready, Mahomes would miss only four games in six weeks. Those four games are the Broncos, Colts, Dolphins and Raiders, so the start to the season is not nearly as hard as it could have been.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys and Cardinals have the latest possible off week, with their bye coming in Week 14.<\/p>\n
Here are the other bye weeks:<\/p>\n
Week 6 \u2014 Bengals, Lions, Dolphins, Vikings.<\/p>\n
Week 7 \u2014 Bills, Jaguars, Chargers, Commanders.<\/p>\n
Week 8 \u2014 Giants, Texans, Saints, 49ers.<\/p>\n
Week 9 \u2014 Steelers, Titans.<\/p>\n
Week 10 \u2014 Bears, Broncos, Eagles, Bucs.<\/p>\n
Week 11 \u2014 Seahawks, Rams, Falcons, Patriots, Browns, Packers.<\/p>\n
Week 13 \u2014 Ravens, Jets, Colts, Raiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL did the Chiefs a favor, giving them an early off week as Patrick Mahomes works his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-643988","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\/643988","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=643988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}