The trade deadline quietly came and went for the Kansas City Chiefs, and they didn’t make any big moves. Consider that the team just fell to their arch rivals the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, November 2, not doing anything by the NFL’s trade deadline hit some as a poor decision. The team has a championship-winning quarterback in Patrick Mahomes, but he can’t do it alone, and he could use some help.
During the Chiefs and Bills game, Mahomes completed 15-of-34 passes for 250 yards, according to NFL research. But, even with those strong numbers, the Chiefs couldn’t get over the Bills hump. So, the Chiefs have an uncharacteristic 5-4 record as they head into their bye week, and they’ll have to regroup for their Week 11 game against the Denver Broncos on the road on Sunday, November 16.
After the NFL trade deadline wrapped up, those on the Chiefs’ side expressed their frustrations about why Kansas City didn’t make a move. General manager Brett Veach and the front office seem happy with their current roster, and while there’s nothing wrong with that, there is something wrong with this team being 5-4.
Kansas City Chiefs Need to Help Patrick Mahomes
On one hand, it would have been difficult for the Kansas City Chiefs to have made a significant move during this trade cycle. As Charles Goldman of A to Z Sports notes in a Tuesday, November 4 feature, “salary cap, draft capital, and player availability had to sync up, and they clearly didn’t for Kansas City.” He adds that “acquiring a player was always going to be difficult because the Chiefs had about $3 million in salary cap space for the remainder of the 2025 NFL season.”
But, that didn’t stop the critics. “No pass rusher. No running back. Just Mahomes going to have to carry again,” one commenter noted on X.
“They need to change the franchise name from Kansas City Chiefs to Kansas City Mahomes and Some Dudes,” one commenter replied. “Bills and Chiefs fans watching their teams not do anything at the deadline to try and help their generational QBs out,” another said. “How long they gonna put it all on his shoulders,” one more said.
Kansas City Chiefs Had a ‘Big Miss’
Another NFL analyst who thinks that, based on research, the Chiefs should have made a move during the NFL trade window is Garrett Podell of CBS Sports. In a piece out on Tuesday, November 4, he says Kansas City is a team that should have made moves.
“The Kansas City Chiefs needed help at the running back position,” he states in the article. “Their running backs have combined to rank 28th in the league in scrimmage yards per game and 27th in the league in scrimmage yards per touch.”
He adds, “The New York Jets ran a fire sale on most of their core, and running back Breece Hall, who is in the last year of his rookie deal, would have made so much sense for the Chiefs. Hall is one of three active players averaging over 60 yards rushing per game and 30 yards receiving per game for their career along with Bijan Robinson and Christian McCaffrey.”
He even calls it a “big miss” by the Kansas City Chiefs. We’ll see how much of a miss it was when the team is back from their week off.
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