Looking Back at the Chiefs 2024 Season

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Today we bring you a look back at the Chiefs 2024 season.

Go Chiefs!

— Luke Gromer

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Looking Back at the Chiefs 2024 Season

The Chiefs finished the regular season 15-2, a franchise record for regular season wins.

Including the playoffs, the Chiefs went 17-3.

Additionally, 12 of the 17 victories were one-score games.

Here’s a quick recap of their results from the 2024 season:

The 2024 Chiefs season was filled with some ups and downs.

We’ll quickly highlight key moments and storylines from another memorable season.

• The Chiefs reported to training camp as back-to-back Super Bowl champions, with their sights set on doing something no other team in the Super Bowl era has done: win three consecutive Super Bowls

• On the first offensive play of the preseason, WR Hollywood Brown suffered a shoulder injury that sidelined him until late in the season

• The Chiefs began the season starting rookie Kingsley Suamataia at LT, but he was exposed starting in Week 2. Then, the Chiefs gave backup Wanya Morris an opportunity until Joe Thuney took over as LT in Week 15

• In Week 2 against the Bengals, Isiah Pacheco suffered a fractured fibula late in the game, which required surgery. This led to the Chiefs signing Kareem Hunt a couple of weeks later. Pacheco didn’t return until Week 13 against the Raiders

• In Week 4 against the Chargers, the Chiefs lost their leading WR, Rashee Rice, for the season with an LCL injury that required surgery. Rice sustained the injury when he collided with Mahomes after Mahomes threw an interception and was attempting to tackle the defender

• The Chiefs started the season 9-0, seven of the wins coming in one-score games, before losing their first game to the Bills on the road in Week 11

• The Chiefs clinched their 9th straight AFC West title in their 19-17 win over the Chargers in Week 14

• The Chiefs clinched the #1 seed in the AFC and home-field advantage in their Christmas Day win over the Steelers

• The Chiefs dispatched the Texans in the Divisional Round, then won a nail-biter against the Bills to advance to their third straight Super Bowl

• The Chiefs were dominated by the Eagles 40-22 in Super Bowl LIX

Below are the top three stat leaders in various statistical categories for the Chiefs during the 2024 season playoffs.

Passing 

Rushing 

Receiving 

Defense

Source: Pro Football Reference

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ Trade up in the 1st round and draft a LT (23)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Sign a LT in free agency (27)

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Trade for a LT (14)

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Give Kingsley Suamataia another chance at LT (2)

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Give Wanya Morris another chance at LT (0)

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Give D.J. Humphries another chance at LT (1)

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Keep Joe Thuney at LT (3)

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Other (comment your answer) (2)

Luke’s Take

I neglected to add the option that the Chiefs could draft a LT with their current draft pick(s).

To secure the position, the Chiefs would likely need to make an aggressive trade-up in the first round of the draft or trade for a LT.

Singing an above-average free-agent LT would be really expensive.

With the amount the Chiefs are paying Mahomes, some of their other key players, and the players that will be up for contract negotiations in the next one or two seasons, I’d be surprised if the Chiefs went out and spent a lot of money on a LT in free agency.

I could see them using draft picks to trade up in the draft to take a player they believe in or just drafting a tackle (or two) with the picks they already have in the draft.

• The Super Bowl officially had 127.7M viewers, making it the most-watched Super Bowl ever

• The Dolphins are hiring former Texans OC Bobby Slowik as their passing game coordinator

• The Eagles expect 1 million people to attend their championship parade

• The Saints hired Eagles OC Kellen Moore as their HC 

• 49ers owner Jed York made it clear the team is committed to extending QB Brock Purdy

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• 💰 See how much money Eagles and Chiefs players made from the Super Bowl

• 🏃🏾‍♂️ Eagles RB Saquon Barkley became just the 3rd RB in NFL history to win the Super Bowl after being the regular season rushing leader

• 📊 View the completed 2025 NFL Draft order

• 😬 The Chiefs offense has been trending in the wrong direction the last few seasons

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