Midway through the first quarter of Raiders’ game against the Chiefs Sunday, a pretty awesome play happened, that I don’t think should go unnoticed. The play-by-play doesn’t reflect it and the game announcers thought it was a fluke, when in reality it was a savvy play by a veteran special teams maven that gave the Raiders outstanding field position.
The Chiefs had just scored for the second time on a field goal to go up 10-0 on the Raiders. Harrison Butker kicked off and the gamebook simply says “H.Butker kicks 64 yards from KC 35 to OAK 1, out of bounds.