The complete 2026 slate with rest edges and schedule context, the 2025 ledger, and the franchise record since 1999 — every number computed from the bundled nflverse game log.
By C. B. Zakarian · Updated July 29, 2026
The Kansas City Chiefs enter 2026 off a 6–11 season. Their 2026 opponents went a combined 155–134 in 2025 (a .536 strength of schedule, 5 of 32 — the naive prior-year method, whose real forecast error we measured here). The calendar hands them a net rest differential of -2 days (19 of 32), with week 6 (+7), week 7 (-3), week 14 (+3), week 15 (-3), week 16 (-4); the bye falls in week 5, they play 2 Thursday games, and 2 of their final four games are divisional. Rest-edge context lives in the schedule-quirks explainer.
Results fill in automatically as the bundled nflverse game log updates; until a game is played its result column shows a dash.
| Wk | Date | Opponent | Rest edge | Notes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 14 | vs Denver Broncos | — | DIV Mon | — |
| 2 | Sep 20 | vs Indianapolis Colts | -1 | — | — |
| 3 | Sep 27 | at Miami Dolphins | — | — | — |
| 4 | Oct 4 | at Las Vegas Raiders | — | DIV | — |
| 6 | Oct 18 | vs Los Angeles Chargers | +7 | DIV | — |
| 7 | Oct 25 | at Seattle Seahawks | -3 | — | — |
| 8 | Nov 1 | at Denver Broncos | — | DIV | — |
| 9 | Nov 8 | vs New York Jets | — | — | — |
| 10 | Nov 15 | at Atlanta Falcons | — | — | — |
| 11 | Nov 22 | vs Arizona Cardinals | — | — | — |
| 12 | Nov 26 | at Buffalo Bills | — | Thu | — |
| 13 | Dec 3 | at Los Angeles Rams | -1 | Thu | — |
| 14 | Dec 13 | at Cincinnati Bengals | +3 | — | — |
| 15 | Dec 21 | vs New England Patriots | -3 | Mon | — |
| 16 | Dec 27 | vs San Francisco 49ers | -4 | — | — |
| 17 | Jan 3 | at Los Angeles Chargers | — | DIV | — |
| 18 | Jan 10 | vs Las Vegas Raiders | — | DIV | — |
Final record 6–11, 362 points scored against 328 allowed (+34). Home 5–4, road 1–7. One-score games (decided by 8 or fewer): 1–9 — the split most likely to regress either way, per the Pythagorean explainer.
Across the 27 seasons in our game log the franchise is 247–190 (.565). Best season in the window: 2024 (15–2); leanest: 2008 (2–14). Franchise moves are joined under the current code (KC), so older seasons include predecessor cities where applicable.
Sources: nflverse public game log bundled at data/games.csv (schedule, rest, and results; retrieved July 2026 — in-season updates refresh this page's results column). No projections, no invented numbers: this page reports the schedule and the record, and links the analysis.