The Kansas City Chiefs are finally looking and feeling like themselves again after a dominant 37-20 victory in Week 4 of the 2025 NFL season against the Baltimore Ravens. The game was even more lopsided than the final score showed.
Despite their rough start to the year, they sit at 2-2 and just a game or so behind the 3-1 Los Angeles Chargers for first place in the AFC West. Unfortunately, the Chiefs have two tough games coming up, as they’ll travel to take on the Jacksonville Jaguars and return home to face the Detroit Lions.
After that, however, they have what appears to be yet another easy game looming against the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 7. It’s not like Kansas City needed any more help against Las Vegas, but they just got some in the form of a brutal Raiders injury update.
Raiders’ Kolton Miller injury is final nail in the coffin for Chiefs in Week 7
In Week 4’s game against the Chicago Bears, Raiders star left tackle Kolton Miller, who the team gave a $66 million extension this offseason, left the game with an ankle injury. On Tuesday, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that Miller broke his ankle and sustained a high ankle sprain, so he’ll head to IR.
This means that Miller will be out for Week 7’s game between the Chiefs and the Raiders. Kansas City fans are not necessarily cheering for an opponent’s injury, but they’ll gladly take the fortunate break, as Las Vegas is now missing one of its best players.
It’s not like the Raiders’ offensive line was impressing anyone this season, as they’ve already given up 12 sacks and rookie running back Ashton Jeanty has had nowhere to run. But just when things started to look improved in Week 4, it all came crashing down with Miller’s injury.
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Not only is Miller the most experienced and talented player on the Las Vegas offensive line, but he is the longest-tenured Raider in the building. This is sure to have a residual emotional effect on the rest of the team, considering his leadership position.
Chris Jones, George Karlaftis and Mike Danna are surely licking their chops at a matchup with either Stone Forsythe, a failed Pete Carroll project from his days with the Seattle Seahawks, or rookie third-rounder Charles Grant, Carroll’s current project, who has yet to be active this season.
Kansas City obviously takes every game seriously under Andy Reid, and the Raiders, for whatever reason, can make things interesting with the Chiefs. But there is a very good chance that Las Vegas is 1-5 or 2-4 heading into Arrowhead Stadium in mid-October, without their star left tackle, to boot.
