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November 30: Patrick Mahomes passed for 306 yards and became Kansas City’s career leader in touchdown passes, and the Chiefs clinched an AFC playoff spot with a 19-17 victory over the visiting Las Vegas Raiders on Friday.
Kansas City (11-1) has played in a slew of close games this season and wrapped up this win when Raiders center Jackson Powers-Johnson unexpectedly snapped the ball. It caromed off the upper right arm of quarterback Aidan O’Connell, and Nick Bolton of the Chiefs recovered it at the Kansas City 37-yard line with 11 seconds left.
Mahomes threw one scoring pass to become the franchise leader with 238, surpassing Hall of Famer Len Dawson. Fill-in kicker Matthew Wright matched his career high of four field goals for the Chiefs, who became the first team to wrap up a postseason berth this year.
Brock Bowers and Tre Tucker caught touchdown passes for Las Vegas (2-10), which dropped its eighth straight game. Bowers, a rookie, had 10 receptions for a career-best 140 yards.
O’Connell was pressed into duty after Gardner Minshew sustained a season-ending broken collarbone on Sunday in a 29-19 loss to the Denver Broncos.
Wright kicked a 32-yard field goal with 9:53 left in the game to give Kansas City a 19-17 lead.
The Raiders had a chance to take the lead, but Daniel Carlson was short on a 58-yard field goal attempt with 2:17 remaining. Carlson also missed attempts from 56 and 55 yards.
Carlson looked in line for one final chance before the errant snap on a play from the Kansas City 32.
The Raiders trailed by 13 before stunning the Chiefs with two touchdowns in 1:48.
Las Vegas moved within six when O’Connell tossed a 33-yard scoring pass to the Bowers with 1:40 remaining in the third quarter. The score was set up by a 68-yard kickoff return by Ameer Abdullah.
