Sunday Aftermath: Chiefs' receiver woes, Lamar Jackson's status, and more

But perhaps no team's champagne problems have proved more intractable than the Chiefs and their wideout woes. Since trading Tyreek Hill they've won two Super Bowls but had zero 1,000-yard wideouts. They've had only one 1,000-yard season of any kind, Travis Kelce's 1,338-yard 2022. Hell, they haven't even had a 1,000-yard rushing season in that timespan.

Kenneth Walker III is poised to change that on the ground. Through the air? The slump seems all but guaranteed to continue after a stirring victory over the revitalized Raiders brought the Chiefs to 4-0 but left them without Rashee Rice and Tyquan Thornton .

Thornton's injury is the one most emblematic of the Chiefs' post-Hill problems. A slow-burn reclamation project who was having the best game of his NFL life in Vegas, Thornton was injured on the longest reception of the afternoon and second longest of his career. He didn't even realize he was hurt until he stood up and saw his own foot pointing in the wrong direction. How do these things keep happening?