The Kansas City Chiefs stretched their winning streak to five games with a low scoring, less than thrilling win over the Denver Broncos from Arrowhead on Thursday night. Harrison Butker was the difference maker, kicking four field goals in the 19-8 victory. 

Slow night on the offensive end

The KC offense has been far from impressive most of the season, and that trend continued on Thursday against Denver. Luckily the defense stepped up and kept Russell Wilson and Co. in check all night.

Going into the Week 6 opener it was the Broncos offense that was looking the more adept part of the Denver team, but against the Chiefs the defense stepped up as the offense sputtered. Kansas City started their first four drives of the game with fantastic field position. Their average starting point was around their own 40 yard line for their first four drives, but they couldn’t take advantage until late in the second quarter. 

Russell Wilson struggled to move the ball in the first half, but so did Patrick Mahomes. The Chiefs were able to get the ball into the redzone four times, but only crossed the goal line once in those four trips inside the 20. It was Kadarius Toney who made a three yard TD catch to break the game open and take a 10-0 lead on a night where both offenses would struggle.

Right before the half Harrison Butker hit his second of four field goals, this one from 60 yards on a windy night from Arrowhead, to take a 13-0 lead into the break.

Kelce played, Taylor watched

Travis Kelce did play despite battling through an ankle injury all week, and yes Taylor Swift was in attendance inside of one of the boxes at GEHA Field. You wouldn’t have known that Kelce was dealing with an injury, going for 124 yards on nine catches, but that didn’t help the Chiefs put up points.

KC’s would continue to flat line on the offensive end, and that allowed the Broncos to try to make a late comeback bid. Wilson, who went 13/22 for 95 yards with one TD and two INTs, finally got the offense moving and cut the 16-0 lead in half thanks to a gorgeous one handed catch from Courtland Sutton and a two point conversion from Javonte Williams gave Denver hope with six minutes remaining in the fourth quarter.

Mahomes would drive the Chiefs down the field and set up Butker’s fourth field goal to close the door on the Broncos chance to make a late comeback. The KC QB went 30/40 for 306 yards, with one TD and one INT on one of his less memorable nights from Arrowhead.

The Chiefs are now 5-1 after their fifth straight win, while the Broncos are 1-5 and are dangerously close to falling into the disaster zone they found themselves in all of last season.

Very fittingly, the defense came up with the play to shut the door on the Broncos. Semaje Perine fumbled the ball fighting for extra yardage and Willie Gay came up with the fumble recovery to move the Chiefs to 5-1 and sink the Broncos to 1-5.