Patrick Mahomes shot 258 yards and three touchdowns for the Chiefs, while the Steelers turned the ball three times on offense; on more important Kansas City news, they lost their starting run to Clyde Edwards-Heler with a collarbone injury.
The Kansas City Chiefs won their eighth straight win and finished in the playoffs as AFC Western Champions after beating the pitiful Pittsburgh Steelers 36-10 at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday.
Kansas City walked 23 points away from their first offensive possession of the game, and the streak only ended when Elliot Fry missed a 39-yard shot shortly before halftime. The Steelers, by contrast, failed to score in the first half, with Roethlisberger hitting Charvarius Ward in the second series, and Chris Boswell also missed with a 36-yard shot.
Things didn’t improve after halftime as Dionta Johnson tinkered with setting Byron Pringle’s second touchdown in play – impressive duck and weave as he dodged several Steelers defenders on a 16-yard catch and ran into the end zone.
Boswell finally got Pittsburgh on board, shooting 34 yards out of the game with three and a half minutes left in the third quarter, only for Fry to land two more hits of his own, one of which came after Big Ben’s failed attempt to see Kansas. … City ap 36-3.
Rotliebserger discovered that Johnson made a senseless landing late, but the damage had already been done. The Steelers are down to 7-7-1 and are out of the AFC playoffs, while the Chiefs remain in first place in the conference, now 11-4.
In some other big news ahead of the playoffs, they lost their starting run to Clyde Edwards-Heler, who ran in his first TD of the game with a collarbone injury.
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The Chiefs (11-4), despite winning AFC West, will remain desperate to win their last two games as they strive to secure their first conference place and, as such, a home playoff lead. … However, they will be on their way in the last two weeks of the season, first facing the Bengals (9-6) in Cincinnati before facing the Broncos (7-8) in Denver.
