Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is three touchdown passes away from the NFL record for the most ever in a player’s first 10 seasons.
Mahomes, who is in his 10th NFL season, has 325 career touchdown passes, counting the playoffs. Only Peyton Manning, who had 327 touchdown passes in his first 10 years in the league, has had more.
So if Mahomes throws for two touchdowns on Sunday against the Jets, he’ll tie Manning’s record. With three touchdowns, Mahomes will have the record all to himself.
As a rookie, Mahomes played in only one game and didn’t throw any touchdowns. In the eight and a half seasons since then, Mahomes has 279 touchdown passes in the regular season, and another 46 in the playoffs.
Once Mahomes breaks the record, he’s likely to own it for a long time. The only active quarterback who’s closing in is Josh Allen, who is currently in his eighth NFL season and has 260 career touchdown passes. Allen has a chance of throwing for 68 touchdown passes in the next year and a half and moving ahead of Manning, but he’s highly unlikely to finish next season ahead of whatever Mahomes’ total is by the end of this season. This is a record Mahomes will own for a long time.
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The Jets will be down a receiver for Sunday’s game in Kansas City after ruling out Garrett Wilson and the Chiefs will be short a cornerback.
Head coach Andy Reid told reporters on Friday that Mansoor Delane will miss the game because of a shoulder injury. It will be the second game in a row that the first-round pick has missed, but he was able to practice on a limited basis this week.
Kristian Fulton and Nohl Williams started at corner in Delane’s absence last weekend.
Reid also said that defensive tackle Peter Woods will miss the matchup with the Jets. Woods, who has been out of practice with a neck injury, will miss a game for the first time this season.
The Jets confirmed that they will be without wide receiver Garrett Wilson for Sunday’s game in Kansas City.
Wilson is in the concussion protocol and did not practice on Wednesday and Thursday, so head coach Aaron Glenn’s announcement about Wilson on Friday was an expected development. Sunday’s game will be the first that Wilson has missed this season.
Wilson has 43 catches for 527 yards and three touchdowns on the season. Adonai Mitchell and rookie Omar Cooper will be the Jets’ top wideouts this weekend.
Glenn said that running back Breece Hall (quad), linebacker David Bailey (groin), and tight end Mason Taylor (neck) are all set to play. Cornerback Nahshon Wright (back), linebacker Joseph Ossai (ankle), and defensive lineman Harrison Phillips (ankle) will be listed as questionable to face the Chiefs.
It looks like running back Breece Hall will be back in the Jets lineup this week.
Hall practiced in full for the first time since suffering the quad injury that has kept him out for the last five games. Hall said after practice that he is ready to play against the Chiefs.
Braelon Allen has impressed during Hall’s absence and is coming off a season-high 147 yards against the Raiders. Offensive coordinator Frank Reich was asked about how the team will balance the workload during a Thursday press conference.
“We have some plays that are tagged for one or the other, but it’s a great problem to have,” Reich said, via a transcript from the team. “You got two number one backs. Breece is obviously the bell cow, he’s our guy, but it’ll be a mix. And as far as hot hand, not hot hand, I think that’s always an in-game feel thing, it really is. My experience in it, because I’ve had that experience, I know I haven’t had two guys like this, but yeah, it’s just an in-game feel thing.”
Linebacker David Bailey (groin), linebacker Joseph Ossai (ankle), linebacker Demario Davis (rest), safety VJ Payne (knee), and tight end Mason Taylor (neck) also moved up to full participation. Defensive lineman Harrison Phillips (ankle), linebacker Trevin Wallace (groin), and wide receiver Garrett Wilson (concussion) remained out of practice.
Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice is in the final year of his four-year, $6.45 million rookie contract. He nevertheless has far greater liabilities than assets. And he’s looking to wipe the slate clean as to at least some of them.
Via ESPN, Rice has filed for federal bankruptcy protection.
The filing cites more than $3.45 million in debts, with $2.1 million of it tied to multiple plaintiffs in the accident caused by his street-racing incident in early 2024.
Rice has yet to get a second contract. He’s due to become a free agent in March, and he has played well enough to get signed, by the Chiefs or someone else.
By then, Rice should have more than enough money to pay all of his debts without relying on the ability to activate Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy laws to discharge some or many of them for cents on the dollar.
That could be the first argument made by his creditors. Given Rice’s earning potential, it’s just a matter of time before he has the money needed to pay all of his bills and settle all of his debts.
Chiefs cornerback Mansoor Delane missed last Sunday’s loss to the Broncos with a shoulder injury and his outlook for Week 9’s home game against the Jets looks a little better after Wednesday’s practice.
Delane was able to participate in practice on a limited basis on Wednesday. Head coach Andy Reid called Delane day-to-day earlier in the week, so the Chiefs will be looking for him to remain on a positive trajectory.
Tight end Travis Kelce (ankle), defensive tackle Omarr Norman-Lott (knee), wide receiver Nikko Remigio (hip), and wide receiver Rashee Rice (hamstring, knee) were also limited participants.
Defensive lineman Peter Woods (neck) was the only player out of practice while linebacker Drue Tranquill (pectoral) and quarterback Patrick Mahomes (knee) were listed as full participants.
The Jets played without rookie linebacker David Bailey in Week 8 after he missed practice all week with a groin injury, but Week 9’s practice schedule got off to a better start.
Bailey was a limited participant as the Jets prepared for this Sunday’s trip to Kansas City. The first-round pick had 5.5 sacks in the first seven games of the season.
Running back Breece Hall (quad) was also a limited participant. Hall has missed five straight games, but head coach Aaron Glenn said at his press conference that Hall is “trending in the right direction” to return this week.
Wide receiver Garrett Wilson (concussion), defensive lineman Harrison Phillips (ankle), and linebacker Demario Davis (rest) missed practice. Linebacker Joseph Ossai (ankle), tight end Mason Taylor (back), and linebacker Trevin Wallace (groin) were limited participants.
Safety VJ Payne (knee) was designated for return from injured reserve Wednesday and he was listed as a full participant in his return to practice.
Despite missing a 54-yard field goal late in Sunday’s eventual loss to the Broncos, Harrison Butker will remain the Chiefs’ kicker.
Coach Andy Reid told reporters on Wednesday that the team will not be making a change.
On Monday, Reid explained that Butker’s miss to the right came from an effort to avoid having his kick blocked. “I get it,” Reid said. “It just went a little bit too wide on it.”
Through it all, former All-Pro kicker Justin Tucker remains on the practice squad.
Butker has missed seven kicks in seven 2026 games. Obviously, his status will become more secure if he does the one thing an NFL team needs a kicker to do.
Make his kicks.
The next change comes on Sunday, when the 5-2 Chiefs host the 2-6 Jets.
Appearing Tuesday on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, Cowboys owner and G.M. Jerry Jones made a clunky case for the absence of a correlation between coaching pay and wins.
When he makes his second weekly visit of the team’s flagship station, he should be asked this question: Would you want Andy Reid, Sean Payton, John Harbaugh, Sean McVay, or Kyle Shanahan to be the Cowboys’ head coach?
They’re the five highest-paid coaches in the league. And any team that doesn’t have an objectively great coach would absolutely want one of those five.
Because they win. In 2026, their combined record is 25-11-1. They have six Super Bowl trophies, and 11 Super Bowl appearances.
They’re highly compensated because they win. Which makes them worthy of high compensation.
It’s obvious. And it’s insulting to the intelligence of anyone with reasonable cognitive skills (which barely qualifies me to be insulted) for Jerry to insist that there’s “zero correlation” between coaching pay and wins.
So what’s really going on here? At one level, he’s being cheap when it comes to a budgetary line item that has no salary cap, or salary floor. At another level, he likely doesn’t want to have a true alpha whose W-2 would allow him to take over the team, and to minimize the outsized influence of anyone named Jones.
Whatever the case, Jones’s strategy to treat a coaching search like an exercise in wildcatting ignores the fact that he can afford to pay for a high-functioning oil well. But he doesn’t want to spend the money — and he doesn’t want to give the coach the power that comes from being highly paid.
Through it all, the Cowboys haven’t been to the NFC Championship since 1995. And there’s definitely a correlation between Jerry’s approach to hiring coaches and the continuation of “this ‘drought’ that people say we’re in.”
The Jets may be without wide receiver Garrett Wilson in Kansas City this weekend.
Head coach Aaron Glenn said in a Wednesday press conference that Wilson is in the concussion protocol. Glenn indicated Wilson was injured on one of the final plays of last Sunday’s 38-33 loss to the Raiders.
Glenn called Wilson, who had six catches for 83 yards during the loss, day-to-day and his progress through the protocol will be tracked over the next few days. He has 43 catches for 527 yards and three touchdowns on the season.
Adonai Mitchell, Omar Cooper, Isaiah Williams, Tim Patrick, and Malik McClain are the other wideouts on the 53-man roster for the Jets.
