Kansas City Chiefs: Five stats to know for the 2020 season

15 Games

The Chiefs are favored in 15 of the 16 games that they play in 2020, according to ESPN’s Football Power Index.

Not only are the Chiefs favored in 15 games, they are favored by at least 60% in all of those games except one. The only game in which the Chiefs are not favored is their Week 15 matchup against the New Orleans Saints. They are only favored by 50.5% against the Baltimore Ravens in Week 3.

The Chiefs over/under win total is only 11.5 wins according to Action Network, which means unless the Chiefs get upset four times this season, the Chiefs are clearing the over.

The Chiefs have gone 12-4 the last two seasons and have won double digit games in each of the last five seasons.

357 Yards

In his first season in the NFL, Jamaal Charles had only 357 yards on 67 rushing attempts and somehow never managed to find the end zone once.

Of course, with hindsight, we now all remember Charles as one of the greatest to ever lace up a pair of cleats. During his second season, he actually put together 1,120 yards on 190 rushing attempts, and the rest is history.

I am highlighting this, so that I can say this: Clyde Edwards-Helaire may not be the instant success that fans and analyst so desperately want him to be. This also does not mean that he will not be. He may come out in year one and be the next Christian Mccaffrey, catching 1,000 yards worth of passes and rushing for another 1,000 yards, but putting expectations like that on him are unfair and setting ourselves up for disappointment.

Sure, Charles was a third round draft pick, and Clyde Edwards-Helaire was a first round pick, but the point still stands. Even if CEH does not have the breakout season that pundits and fans are already pushing on him, greatness is still very much within his grasp.