Pro football/Week 1/Research only
Kansas City Chiefs
The defense this roster faces, what it allowed by position, every covered pass catcher with the market's number on him, and the evidence under each grade.
- Board generated
- Aug 28, 12:12 PM EDT
- Line captured
- 2026-09-09
- Dated to the day. One capture, so no movement.
- Coverage table
- 2025 season
- Prior season. Not a 2026 measurement of anything.
This week: hosting Denver Broncos. Kickoff and venue are carried by no source on this desk.
- Covered players
- 11
- With a posted line
- 6
- Strongest grade
- A
- Ungraded
- 0
- WR
- 5
- RB
- 4
- TE
- 2
Playing for a new team in 2026. Prior-season usage for these players was earned elsewhere: Kenneth Walker III.
The defense opposite
The defense opposite
2025 seasonDenver Broncos on defence, over 17 games. Every percentage below is a share of the same denominator, this defence’s 698 dropbacks, and each one prints the count it came from so it can be checked against the number beside it. The rank is against the other thirty-one teams. None of this is 2026: a coordinator change or a personnel change is not in it.
| Rate | Share of dropbacks |
|---|---|
| Man | 36.1%252 of 698 dropbacksrank 4 of 32 |
| Zone | 60.7%424 of 698 dropbacksrank 29 of 32 |
| Press | 25.6%179 of 698 dropbacksrank 13 of 32 |
| Disguised | 20.2%141 of 698 dropbacksrank 32 of 32 |
| Middle of field closed | 50.9%355 of 698 dropbacksrank 16 of 32 |
| Middle of field open | 49.1%343 of 698 dropbacksrank 17 of 32 |
| Nickel personnel | 62.5%436 of 698 dropbacksrank 23 of 32 |
| Base personnel | 17.8%124 of 698 dropbacksrank 16 of 32 |
| DB heavy personnel | 18.1%126 of 698 dropbacksrank 8 of 32 |
| Rotates to single high | 7.3%51 of 698 dropbacksrank 32 of 32 |
| Rotates to two high | 12.3%86 of 698 dropbacksrank 11 of 32 |
| Splits the safeties | not reported |
| Shell | Share of dropbacks |
|---|---|
| Cover 0 | 6.6%46 of 698 dropbacksrank 3 of 32 |
| Cover 1 | 23.9%167 of 698 dropbacksrank 6 of 32 |
| Cover 2 | 11.5%80 of 698 dropbacksrank 23 of 32 |
| Cover 2 man | 3.3%23 of 698 dropbacksrank 7 of 32 |
| Cover 3 | 25.2%176 of 698 dropbacksrank 29 of 32 |
| Cover 4 | 13.3%93 of 698 dropbacksrank 22 of 32 |
| Cover 5 | not reported |
| Cover 6 | 10.7%75 of 698 dropbacksrank 12 of 32 |
Cover 5 is reported by neither coverage source for any team, and the split-safety rate arrives as an identical zero for all thirty-two with no count behind it. Both are shown as unreported. Neither is a defence that never plays them.
What that defense allowed, by position
prior seasonThe allowed totals are a completed prior season: the game counts of 17 to 21 describe a regular season plus playoffs. PFF does not label the season in this export. captured 2026-09-08, before any 2026 game, so the completed season behind these totals is 2025. Recorded as an inference, not as something the file says.
| Position | Rank allowed | Points | Per game | Targets | Catches | Yards | TD | Yards per target | Catch rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WR | 2 of 32 | 291 | 15.3over 19 games | 377 | 219 | 2409 | 8 | 6.39on 377 targets | 58.1%of 377 targets |
| TE | 19 of 32 | 155.8 | 8.2over 19 games | 157 | 106 | 1142 | 7 | 7.27on 157 targets | 67.5%of 157 targets |
| RB | 4 of 32 | 267.7 | 14.1over 19 games | 80 | 53 | 424 | 6 | 5.3on 80 targets | 66.3%of 80 targets |
| Rank allowed | Points | Per game | Completions | Yards | TD | Interceptions | Yards per attempt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8 of 32 | 350.95 | 18.5over 19 games | 378of 653 attempts | 3975 | 21 | 12 | 6.09on 653 attempts |
Rank 32 allowed the most fantasy points to the position and rank 1 allowed the least. A T prefix is a tie. The game counts run past seventeen because they include the playoffs.
Covered players
Grade mix on this roster: A 1B 2C 6F 2. The grade and the score are prior-season evidence; the receiving-yards line and its two prices are this week’s capture. 6 of 11 rows carry a line. A row without one was not quoted, which is not a line of zero.
| Player | Pos | Grade | Score | Rec yds line | Over | Under | Sources | Why the score reads this way |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rashee Rice | WR | A | 1.00 | 59.5 | -114 | -115 | 3 |
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| Brashard Smith | RB | B | 0.57 | no line quoted | no price | no price | none |
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| Kenneth Walker III | RB | B | 0.38 | 15.5 | -120 | -110 | 3 |
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| JuJu Smith-Schuster | WR | C | 0.30 | player not matched | no price | no price | none |
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| Isiah Pacheco | RB | C | 0.20 | player not matched | no price | no price | none |
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| Kareem Hunt | RB | C | 0.04 | player not matched | no price | no price | none |
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| Xavier Worthy | WR | C | -0.06 | 37.5 | -118 | -113 | 3 |
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| Marquise Brown | WR | C | -0.11 | player not matched | no price | no price | none |
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| Tyquan Thornton | WR | C | -0.11 | 19.5 | -115 | -114 | 4 |
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| Travis Kelce | TE | F | -1.08 | 41.5 | -115 | -114 | 3 |
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| Noah Gray | TE | F | -1.59 | 9.5 | -115 | -114 | 6 |
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The evidence under the grades
Receiver evidence
2025 seasonThe board asserts a coverage lean. This is what it is asserting from: FantasyPoints’s own receiving splits, yards per route run against man and against zone with the routes behind each, the win rate in each, and the share of the offence the receiver held. Prior season, published under a 2026 board, and a rookie or a player who moved has no history to show.
| Player | Yards per route, man | Yards per route, zone | Win rate, man | Win rate, zone | Target share | Route share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rashee Rice | 0.82on 76 routes | 3.24on 153 routes | 18.7%on 75 routes | 5.3%on 150 routes | 26.2%over 8 games | 72.9%over 8 games |
| Brashard Smith | 0.42on 24 routes | 2.35on 65 routes | 0%on 23 routes | 0%on 65 routes | not reported | not reported |
| Kenneth Walker III | 1on 31 routes | 1.91on 129 routes | 0%on 31 routes | 1.6%on 127 routes | not reported | not reported |
| JuJu Smith-Schuster | no source matches this player by name and team, so nothing keyed on a player id is attached | |||||
| Isiah Pacheco | no source matches this player by name and team, so nothing keyed on a player id is attached | |||||
| Kareem Hunt | no source matches this player by name and team, so nothing keyed on a player id is attached | |||||
| Xavier Worthy | 1.61on 112 routes | 1.42on 248 routes | 15.6%on 109 routes | 7.1%on 241 routes | 14.8%over 14 games | 66.8%over 14 games |
| Marquise Brown | no source matches this player by name and team, so nothing keyed on a player id is attached | |||||
| Tyquan Thornton | 1.65on 85 routes | 2.24on 133 routes | 22.4%on 85 routes | 11.5%on 131 routes | 7.1%over 14 games | 38.1%over 14 games |
| Travis Kelce | 1.16on 175 routes | 2.06on 307 routes | 16.9%on 172 routes | 6.1%on 295 routes | 18%over 17 games | 74.2%over 17 games |
| Noah Gray | 1on 53 routes | 0.84on 149 routes | 11.8%on 51 routes | 5.4%on 147 routes | 6%over 16 games | 33%over 16 games |
Where the fixture comes from. Who hosts is not in the Scheme Score export. It is read from the prop capture, which marks an away team, and cross-checked against the FantasyPoints matchup cards, which title themselves the same way. The two agree on 16 of 16 games. Neither source carries a venue, so none is shown.
Where the price comes from. From one dated prop capture, the same one the Scheme Score export now carries on its own priced rows, so the feed and this page state one answer rather than two. A line here is the consensus across independent sources in that capture, joined to the board by player name and team, and the two prices are the median quote at that line. A row with no line was quoted by nobody in the capture under the name and team the board uses; that is unpriced, not a line of zero. The Sources column says how many sources stood behind a number; it never says which ones, and no operator is named anywhere on this site. The capture is dated 2026-09-09 and is recorded to the day, not to a clock time, so no reader may date it more finely. One capture, so there is no line movement and no closing line.
Availability is not stated here. The 2026 week 1 practice report on this desk carries eleven rows across two of the thirty-two teams, and not one of them states a report status. Official inactives are published in no source here. So these pages say nothing about who plays, and a player appearing on them is not evidence that he will.
Scheme Score is a matchup feature built for player-prop gambling research. It is one input to a betting decision, not a standalone player projection, hit probability, expected value estimate, or stake size. Most rows on this board now carry a grade. The man and zone coverage signal is live: both the man/zone fit and the usage fit legs contribute to a grade, reflecting whether a receiver's style and usage lean toward the coverage this defense plays most. The slot coverage funnel is a direct measurement from PFF's slot coverage report, not an estimate. Some inputs are still missing. Direct TE and RB receiving funnels are not available: tight ends run through the linebacker coverage proxy, and running backs get no receiving funnel signal at all. Defender coverage grades still do not contribute to any grade, because that leg needs each defense's 2026 returning-share data, which does not exist here. The defensive coordinator table is an unfilled stub, so no coordinator discount is applied to any row. A small number of rows stay ungraded because the player name on that row is ambiguous and the grader skips rather than guesses. This board is two tiers. 134 of 290 rows are priced: they carry a posted receiving-yards line from one dated prop capture, joined to the board by player name and team, plus the median over and under price quoted at that line and a count of how many independent sources stood behind it. The other 156 rows carry no line, which means no source in that capture quoted them under the name and team this board uses; that is unpriced, not a line of zero, and it is not a claim that the player will not play. Which operator quoted a number is withheld everywhere in this feed; how many stood behind it is published instead. The capture is recorded to the day and not to a clock time, so no reader may date it more finely, and it is a single capture, so there is no line movement and no closing line here. The line does not enter Scheme Score: the grade is computed from prior-season scheme and usage evidence alone, so a grade is never a projection of the line beside it.