The Chiefs have spent the past year making opposing kickers look automatic.
Since Nov. 10, 2024 - the last time a team missed a field-goal attempt against Kansas City - opponents have drilled kick after kick against the Chiefs. In the 34 games they’ve played since then, including the playoffs, an opponent has missed only three field goals. And in the regular season, the trend has been even more extreme.
That Nov. 10 game against the Broncos still stands out for a different reason. Kansas City won 16-14 on a blocked field goal at the final whistle, a finish that lit up Arrowhead Stadium and sent Broncos fans into a spiral. It was one of the signature moments of the Chiefs’ 2024 season, which also included NFL history as the first two-time Super Bowl champion to get back to the title game with a shot at a threepeat, plus a fourth postseason win over the Bills since Patrick Mahomes became the starting quarterback.
But the kicking numbers since then have tilted the other way. Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker has missed five of his 16 field-goal attempts this season, while opponents have been perfect on all 13 of theirs.
A year ago, opposing kickers went 31 of 32 against Kansas City. The only miss came from Bills kicker Matt Prater, who missed from 52 yards with 22 seconds left in Buffalo’s 28-21 win over the Chiefs on Nov.
2, 2025. NFL analyst Warren Sharp pointed out that the Chiefs’ 97% opponent make rate was the second-highest against any team in the last decade among teams that faced at least 30 attempts.
“Only the 2023 Titans had it worse, with opponents making 46-of-47,” Sharp noted.
The Prater miss also sets up the next marker in this strange run: the one-year anniversary of the last missed field-goal attempt against the Chiefs is almost here.
And there’s more. Since Dec. 8, 2004, opposing teams have made 49 of 50 field-goal tries in the regular season against Kansas City, and Chiefs opponents have connected on 22 straight field-goal attempts overall.
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