The Kansas City Chiefs were defending Super Bowl champions, but their trip back to the Super Bowl had plenty of challenges.
The Chiefs lost their first game and that set a tone for a season that was full of ups and downs, frustrations with an offense that was far below its normal standard and the most losses of any season in the Patrick Mahomes era.
But the season will end in a normal place, with the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. The Chiefs have been in four of the last five Super Bowls.