Finally! The Chiefs get a touchdown from a wide receiver

The Kansas City Chiefs were getting blown out at Lambeau Field on Monday night, but at least they got one big statistical monkey off their backs.

For the first time since 2013, a Chiefs receiver scored a touchdown. Jeremy Maclin, signed in the offseason from the Philadelphia Eagles, broke the streak. He scored from 5 yards out on a pass from Alex Smith with 56 seconds left in the third quarter. The Chiefs trailed 31-7 at the time, but at least they got a receiver in the end zone.

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The last time a Chiefs receiver scored a regular-season touchdown was a 2-yard bubble screen to Dexter McCluster on Dec. 29, 2013 at San Diego. Last season, the Chiefs became the first team since the 1964 New York Giants to go an entire season without one touchdown from a wide receiver. And the Giants did that in a 14-game season in a much different era. It’s amazing the Chiefs could go this long without a touchdown from a receiver, considering passing stats around the NFL are skyrocketing. And then the Chiefs managed to go nearly the first 11 quarters this season without a receiver scoring.

But that weird streak is over. It’s unlikely the floodgates are open now, because the Chiefs are still maddeningly conservative in the passing game. But at least they won’t have to hear about their receivers never scoring. For a few weeks anyway.

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