Kansas City Chiefs at Las Vegas Raiders: Commentary from AFC West game as it happened

The Kansas City Chiefs seemed to find their stride after a season-opening loss to the Detroit Lions. But KC limped into Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders with two losses in its last three contests, including Monday night’s defeat in a Super Bowl LVII rematch.

That said, the Chiefs had owned the recent series against the Las Vegas Raiders, even as some sparks had flown, relatively speaking, between quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Raiders star Maxx Crosby.

There’s still plenty of respect between the two, but the trash talk they exchanged last year — as shown in the Netflix series, “Quarterback” — was representative of the Chiefs-Raiders AFC West rivalry that remains, even as the Chiefs have ascended to perennial Super Bowl-contender status

Crosby, who was doubtful to play on Sunday, did make an appearance and even sacked Mahomes. The Raiders took an early two-score lead, but the Chiefs rallied to win 31-17 on the road. KC improved to 8-3.

The win was an important one for KC in the AFC playoff picture, even though it was expected. The Chiefs were nearly a unanimous pick from national media members leading up to Sunday’s kickoff.

Moving forward, KC could also stand to get healthy, as an already underwhelming wide receivers unit was down a couple names due to injury for Sunday’s clash. That included recent addition (or re-addition) Mecole Hardman, who has hit the IR and will miss at least four weeks.

From that unit, rookie Rashee Rice came through with an important catch-and-run for a touchdown on Sunday.

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