Hopefully, when we look back on the 2025 season, it's the anomaly of what we've come to expect from the Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs' season got away from them and they won just six games as a result, failing to win the division for the first time since 2015 and failing to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2014.
It was a weird year but, hopefully, the Chiefs get back to their winning ways in 2026. One person who is confident that they will do just that is Monday Night Football commentator Troy Aikman, who was discussing the Chiefs' Week 1 primetime matchup against the Denver Broncos on Get Up and had this to say.
"I expect [the Chiefs] to be the same team that we've seen for much of the last decade," Aikman said.
Troy Aikman is confident that the Chiefs will bounce back in 2026
So much went awry for the Chiefs last year and while the season was already sunk when Patrick Mahomes went down for the final stretch, that sure didn't help things. The hope is that with a postseason off for once, the team got a chance to rest up, recharge, and come back stronger this year.
A lot hinges on Mahomes' health. Will he be the same guy he was before the injury? Did the Chiefs give him enough help offensively? Will the defense be able to bounce back after a rollercoaster season? There are a lot of questions that we don't have the answers to just yet.
Fingers crossed that Aikman is right and that the Chiefs do indeed turn back into the team we've been accustomed to watching over the last decade. Again, if all goes well, we'll look back on the 2025 season as the weird one because K.C. will be right back in contention in 2026 and beyond.
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