The Kansas City Chiefs may have surrendered the No. 1 seed in the AFC, but they did secure their eighth consecutive AFC West title by beating the Cincinnati Bengals 25-17 in Week 17.
The Chiefs are now locked into the No. 3 seed in the conference, while the Bengals' playoff chances have fallen to just 6%, according to PFF's model.
Offensive spotlight: Isiah Pacheco was questionable heading into the game, but he made a huge impact for the Chiefs offense, running 18 times for 130 yards and catching seven passes for 35 yards and a receiving touchdown. Pacheco forced three missed tackles on the ground and produced 102 yards after contact, averaging a very healthy 5.7 yards after contact per attempt on the day.
Defensive spotlight: Second-year edge rusher George Karlaftis was a real handful for the Bengals offensive line, as he came away with two sacks and six hurries from 30 pass-rush snaps on first review.
Rookie spotlight: Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice caught all five of his catchable targets for 127 receiving yards and four first downs. The first-year pass-catcher generated 90 yards after the catch, averaging 4.38 yards per route run in the contest.
Box Score
Passing
Cincinnati Bengals |
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| Player | Fantasy | Comp/Att | Yds | YPA | TD | Int | Sacks | Rtg |
| Jake Browning | 21.1 | 19 / 33 | 197 | 6.0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 85.0 |
Kansas City Chiefs |
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| Player | Fantasy | Comp/Att | Yds | YPA | TD | Int | Sacks | Rtg |
| Patrick Mahomes | 13.0 | 21 / 29 | 245 | 8.4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 109.1 |
Rushing
Cincinnati Bengals |
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| Player | Fantasy | Car | Yds | YPC | TD | Long | Fum Lost |
| Jake Browning | 21.1 | 7 | 32 | 4.6 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| Joe Mixon | 18.7 | 21 | 65 | 3.1 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| Chase Brown | 4.8 | 3 | 5 | 1.7 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Trayveon Williams | 0.2 | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Kansas City Chiefs |
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| Player | Fantasy | Car | Yds | YPC | TD | Long | Fum Lost |
| Isiah Pacheco | 32.5 | 18 | 130 | 7.2 | 0 | 37 | 0 |
| Patrick Mahomes | 13.0 | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Receiving
Cincinnati Bengals |
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| Player | Fantasy | Tgt | Rec | Yds | YPT | YPR | TD |
| Joe Mixon | 18.7 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 1 |
| Ja'Marr Chase | 7.1 | 7 | 3 | 41 | 5.9 | 13.7 | 0 |
| Tanner Hudson | 6.8 | 7 | 3 | 38 | 5.4 | 12.7 | 0 |
| Drew Sample | 5.1 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 5.2 | 7.0 | 0 |
| Tyler Boyd | 4.9 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 14.5 | 14.5 | 0 |
| Chase Brown | 4.8 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 11.5 | 11.5 | 0 |
| Tee Higgins | 2.9 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 9.5 | 19.0 | 0 |
| Trenton Irwin | 1.4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 0 |
| Mitchell Wilcox | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
Kansas City Chiefs |
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| Player | Fantasy | Tgt | Rec | Yds | YPT | YPR | TD |
| Isiah Pacheco | 32.5 | 7 | 7 | 35 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 1 |
| Rashee Rice | 20.7 | 6 | 5 | 127 | 21.2 | 25.4 | 0 |
| Justin Watson | 5.1 | 3 | 1 | 41 | 13.7 | 41.0 | 0 |
| Noah Gray | 4.7 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 4.2 | 5.7 | 0 |
| Travis Kelce | 4.6 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 4.0 | 5.3 | 0 |
| Richie James | 1.6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 0 |
| Marquez Valdes-Scantling | 1.3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 0 |
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