LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Las Vegas Raiders (2-4) will head to GEHA Discipline at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, on Sunday, Oct. 19, to tackle the three-time defending AFC Champions, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs (3-3).
Heading into Week 7, the Silver and Black are coming off a 20-10 win over the Tennessee Titans.
Learn how to watch Raiders vs. Chiefs on TV
Kickoff: Sunday, Oct. 19 at 10:00 a.m. PDT
Channel: CBS
Tickets for the Las Vegas Raiders vs. Kansas Metropolis Chiefs
Followers who don’t have their tickets already can nonetheless discover them on Ticketmaster beginning at about $190.
Climate forecast
The excessive temperature on recreation day is anticipated to be 66 levels with a 0% likelihood of rain.
What to observe for: Raiders vs. Chiefs
Raiders participant to observe
DE Maxx Crosby had two sacks in opposition to the Titans and leads the NFL with 10 tackles for loss. Monitoring down Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes is a complete totally different problem, but it surely’s one which Crosby appears to savor, a sense that’s mutual based mostly on what each gamers have stated. It definitely is a delight for followers to observe the 2 go at it.
Chiefs participant to observe
WR Rashee Rice comes again from his six-game suspension for violating the NFL’s private conduct coverage when he brought on a high-speed crash on a Dallas freeway in March 2024. He’s additionally taking part in for the primary time since tearing his ACL 4 video games into final season, when Mahomes collided with him whereas attempting to make a deal with following an interception.
Key matchup
The Chiefs large receivers in opposition to the Las Vegas move protection. Mahomes has been taking part in at an MVP-caliber degree ever since getting Xavier Worthy again from a shoulder harm that he sustained in a Week 1 loss to the Chargers. Now, he has Rice becoming a member of a mixture that additionally consists of Marquise Brown and JuJu Smith-Schuster.
3 key performs
Can the Raiders cease their dropping streak to AFC West groups? The Raiders went 0-6 final yr of their division. They’ve misplaced their solely AFC West recreation this yr (at house to the Chargers), and the Raiders haven’t received a divisional recreation since Dec 14, 2023, after they blew out the Chargers on a Thursday evening 63-21.
Turnovers. The Raiders are tied for twenty ninth within the NFL with a -4 turnover ratio. Head coach Pete Carroll has emphasised how the Raiders want to chop down on their turnovers and trigger extra turnovers by opponents. Groups that win the turnover battle win 70% of the time within the NFL
Watch rookie operating again Ashton Jeanty. He continues to enhance each recreation. He’s at present ninth within the league with 71 speeding yards per recreation. The Chiefs’ speeding protection is nineteenth within the NFL; they offer up a median of 120 yards on the bottom per recreation.
Key accidents
Raiders TE Brock Bowers (knee) might miss his third recreation in a row. The Chiefs are totally wholesome.
Sequence notes
The Chiefs have received 9 of the previous 10 matchups and 14 of the previous 16 going again to the 2017 season. The newest Raiders win was at Arrowhead Stadium on Christmas Day in 2023, which turned out to be the final time Kansas Metropolis misplaced that season. It received its final two regular-season video games, then 4 playoff video games, together with the Tremendous Bowl in opposition to San Francisco.
Stats and stuff
Raiders RB Ashton Jeanty has compelled 34 missed tackles, in line with Subsequent Gen Stats, which is second within the league. That has resulted in 193 yards speeding, the third most. … The Raiders’ 37 tackles for loss are one behind chief Tampa Bay. … Las Vegas’ 10 passes defended by defensive linemen is well essentially the most. Indianapolis and New Orleans are subsequent at six apiece. … The Raiders’ 240 yards speeding in opposition to Chicago on Sept. 28 is the very best complete for an NFL staff this season. … Crosby wants one sack to hitch Greg Townsend as the one Raiders with at the very least 5 sacks in every of his first seven seasons for the reason that statistic has been stored in 1982. … WR Jakobi Meyers has a number of receptions in 30 consecutive video games. … Bowers has caught at the very least two passes in his first 21 video games, which ties the longest streak for a TE to open a profession. Detroit’s Sam LaPorta set the file in 2023-24. … Las Vegas S Jeremy Chinn wants one sack to change into the eighth defensive again since 1982 with six consecutive seasons with at the very least one. … Ok Daniel Carlson’s 214 made subject objectives are the second most since he entered the league in 2018. He’s one behind Justin Tucker. … Mahomes is 12-2 in opposition to the Raiders with 33 TD passes in these video games. … Chiefs TE Travis Kelce wants two TDs to tie Priest Holmes (83) for many in franchise historical past. Kelce has a catch in an NFL-leading 180 straight video games. … Chiefs RB Isiah Pacheco has 4 TD runs in his previous 4 video games in opposition to Las Vegas. … Brown had two TD catches for Kansas Metropolis final week in opposition to Detroit. … Chiefs DE Charles Omenihu has a sack in back-to-back video games.
Fantasy tip
As tempting as it’d for Rice homeowners to place him into the beginning lineup after ready for six weeks, it may be value ready another. The Chiefs are more likely to ease him again into the combo, maybe giving him 30 or so snaps in opposition to Las Vegas. With their passing assault already buzzing, there isn’t any have to rush him again into full-time responsibility.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
