Roger Staubach vs. Terry Bradshaw. Steve Young vs. Troy Aikman. Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning.
Those quarterback matchups defined decades in the NFL, and for the eighth time in the past five seasons, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen will face off with the entire NFL world watching. The stakes couldn’t be higher, either — at least for a regular-season game.
The Chiefs enter the matchup as the league’s only remaining unbeaten team at 9-0, having found just about every possible way to win a game this season, while the 8-2 Bills have a giant lead in the AFC East and have ripped off five straight wins, scoring 30-plus points in the past four games.
Kansas City holds a 4-3 lead over Buffalo in the seven Mahomes-Allen matchups. The Bills have actually beaten the Chiefs each of the past three years in the regular season, but in January of 2021, 2022 and 2024, Kansas City knocked Buffalo out of the playoffs, including in Orchard Park on their way to a second straight Super Bowl title last season.
The Chiefs-Bills matchup gets its own marquee spot this Sunday — a 4:25 p.m. ET national start time on CBS. Fox will show either Falcons-Broncos or Seahawks-49ers, which are both set for 4:05 p.m. ET kickoffs to round out the afternoon slate.
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Xavier Worthy snags a big one for 31 yards, to get the Chiefs into Bills territory for the first time
Denver increases lead vs. Atlanta with Javonte Williams TD
And he was carried to the end zone by a caravan of Broncos as Denver now leads 14-3.
Seattle gets the takeaway!
Terrel Bernard forces Chiefs to punt
Kansas City has run just four plays, and here’s the 4th one — a sack by Bernard to force the punt and get the ball back to the Bills, who are off to a blistering start on both sides of the ball.
James Cook cashes in for Buffalo and the Bills take the early lead
The Mahomes interception turns into 6 for the Bills as Cook closes the deal from three yards out. Buffalo has been in this spot before, having beaten Kansas City in the regular season in each of the past three years.
Amari Cooper picks up 30 with the one-handed stab
The big gain got Buffalo deep into K.C. territory and in position to capitalize on the early Mahomes turnover
Brock Purdy flashing his wheels on this 10-yard touchdown run
Mahomes picked on the second play of the game
Partick Mahomes tried to make some magic happen on this play, but Taylor Rapp came up with the pick to put Buffalo in business at the beginning of the first quarter.
Jaxon Smith-Njigba with the big play on Seattle’s opening drive
Seattle was able to go up 3-0 on this first drive in San Francisco
Denver marches for a score on their first drive
Bo Nix was 4-for-5 on the drive with the 12-yard TD toss to Nate Adkins to close the 9-play, 70-yard drive.
A College Basketball General Manager is in the house in Buffalo
Of all of the college hoops GMs in the country, this guy is (probably) the most famous. 💣🏀
Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen both rallying their troops before kickoff in Buffalo
49ers-Seahawks Inactives
George Kittle is out while Trent Williams and Nick Bosa are active.
