Kansas City Chiefs can continue to haunt the Buffalo Bills like they have since the selection of Patrick Mahomes
The National Football League will see it's best rivalry of the last five years renewed when the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night. They played earlier this season in Buffalo with the Bills getting the win 30-21. However, the playoffs have been a different story. The Bills and Chiefs have […]
The National Football League will see it's best rivalry of the last five years renewed when the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night. They played earlier this season in Buffalo with the Bills getting the win 30-21. However, the playoffs have been a different story.
The Bills and Chiefs have played in the playoffs three times in the last four seasons with the Chiefs winning all three.
- 2020: Chiefs 38, Bills 24
- 2021: Chiefs 42, Bills 36 (OT)
- 2023: Chiefs 27, Bills 24
The biggest factor in all three games was quite simple: quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Trades continue to haunt Buffalo Bills
Let's take a step back and look at the 2017 NFL Draft. the Bills are selecting 10th overall. They make the choice to trade with the Chiefs to get the 27th overall pick where they took Tre'Davious White who was an All-Pro cornerback. Ultimately, they handed the Chiefs Mahomes with that trade.
Because of the trade, the Chiefs have won three Super Bowls and made the last seven AFC Championships. The Bills? Well, they did have the extra draft capital the following year to acquire Josh Allen, but they have yet to get past the Chiefs.
This past April, the Bills decided to make another trade in the first round of the NFL Draft, moving back from 28th to 32nd overall. To everyone's surprise, it was with the Chiefs, who moved up to select wide receiver Xavier Worthy.
Because the Mahomes trade years prior haunted the Bills, it was certainly curious to see them make another move. The draft capital exchanged was a balanced one, but the vibes surrounding it were that of the Mahomes trade.
Sunday's game is primed to be one of the best games of the year, and the emergence of Worthy could be the next move to haunt the Bills in the Allen era.
