Kansas City Chiefs Facts and Trivia

25 Facts

1. Among regular starting NFL quarterbacks in 2014, the Chiefs' Alex Smith Threw fewer interceptions (6) that all but the Packers' Aaron Rodgers (5).

2. The Chiefs entered 2015 with 10 victories in 17 all-time games on Sunday Night Football.

3. Alex Smith entered the 201 season, his 3rd in Kansas City, as the Chiefs' all-time leader (minimum 700 attempts) with a career completion rate of 62.9 percent.

4. Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Bobby Bell (1963-1974) scores 9 touchdowns in his career with the Chiefs: 6 on interception returns, 2 on fumble returns and 1 on an onside kickoff return.

5. Nose tackle Dontari Poe wardens his 2nd consecutive Pro Bowl selection for the Chiefs in the 2014 season.

6. 9 Chiefs players have combined for 17 individual 1,000 yard receiving seasons in franchise history (entering 2015) topped by Tony Gonzalez's 4 such years.

7. The Chiefs played one of the NFL's toughest schedules in 2015. Their opponents that year combined for a winning percentage of .545 in 2014, equaling the 7th highest mark in the league.

8. Priest Holmes carried the ball 1,321 times for the Chiefs from 2001 to 2007; a club record (entering 2016) 190 of those attempts resulted in gains of 10 or more yards.

9. The division-rival Chiefs and Chargers entered the 2015 season tied in their all-time regular-season series at 54 victories each, with one tie (San Diego also had 1 postseason win).

10. Guard Ben Grubbs earned Pro Bowl berths at each of his 2 previous stops (with Baltimore in the 2011 season and with New Orleans in the 2013 season) before joining the Chiefs in 2015.

11. The Chiefs won all their preseason games in 2015 (they were the lone NFL team to do so that year) for the first time since their Super-Bowl-winning season in 1969.

12. Early in the 2015 season, 5th year linebacker Justin Houston became just the 4th Chiefs player to post 50 career sacks (Note: sacks became an official NFL statistic in 1982)

13. With 25 total tackles for a loss (including his 22 sacks) linebacker Justin Houston ranked 2nd only to Houston's J.J. Watt (33) in that category in 2014.

14. Arrowhead Stadium's "Hallelujah Corner" got its name when the Chiefs won 3 games via return scores into the west end zone in the 1995 season.

15. At 65.3 percent in 2014, quarterback Alex Smith posted the highest completion rate of his 10 NFL seasons to that point.

16. The Chiefs entered 2015 with an excellent record in regular-season interconference games: 83-69-2. Their winning percent of .545 in such games ranked 9th among all NFL teams.

17. Former Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson (1962-1975) was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August 1987.

18. Former Chiefs coach Hank Stram (1960-1974) was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August 2003.

19. While with Philadelphia in his 6th NFL season in 2014, Jeremy Maclin posted his 1st career 1,000-yard pass-catching season. He caught 85 passes for 1,318 yards and 10 touchdowns.

20. Cornerback Marcus Peters played his prep ball at Oakland's McClymonds High School, which has produced a host of notable athletes including Bill Russell and Frank Robinson.

21. September 21 1969 Mike Garrett totaled 128 yards from scrimmage and scored touchdowns rushing and receiving in the Chiefs' 31-0 rout of the Patriots in Boston.

22. The Chiefs traveled 21,444 air miles during the regular season in 2015. Only 6 of the NFL's other 31 teams strayed farther from home that year.

23. September 26 1999 Rashaan Shehee's lone career touchdown, a 6 yard run in the 2nd quarter, put the Chiefs ahead for good in a 31-21 victory over the Lions at Arrowhead Stadium.

24. Of the Chiefs' 16 regular-season opponents in 2015, 7 made the playoffs in 2014.

25. September 16 1960 Friday night in Oakland in their 2nd regular-season game the Dallas Texans(would soon be Kansas City Chiefs in 1963) won for the first time, beating Raiders 34-16.