The Kansas City Chiefs are one of the few remaining undefeated teams in the NFL, and a lot of their success can be attributed to their defense.
In a recent article by PFF , they rank all 32 teams on defense, and they have the reigning Super Bowl champions just cracking the top 10 at No. 9. And while there is no etched-in-stone formula for how a team gets to a Super Bowl …
If the Chiefs do what they do on offense, led by QB Patrick Mahomes – clutch play topping that list – and sport a top-10 defense?
That seems like championship-level stuff to us. From PFF …
“The Kansas City Chiefs defense is another one that is partly living on the success of 2023 and could slide down our rankings in the coming weeks,” Ben Rolfe writes. “They are 19th in our rankings for 2024 but haven’t had it easy in facing both the Ravens and Bengals within the first three weeks.”
Mahomes is the first to say that he is not playing as well as he would like to be, but the team has been able to start the season 3-0, and a lot of that is because of their defense.