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Mahomes leads 6-1 Chiefs by Bengals. A recap of Week 5.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of the few things Patrick Mahomes hadn’t done in his young career was bounce back from a loss. He made that look just as easy as Mahomes does everything else.

The Chiefs’ young recordsett­ing quarterbac­k threw for 358 yards and four touchdowns Sunday night, Kareem Hunt finished with three scores and Kansas City rebounded from a last-second loss in New England by throttling the Cincinnati Bengals 45-10.

Mahomes was 28 of 39 with his only big mistake an underthrow­n intercepti­on, though the Chiefs (6-1) were already so far ahead of Cincinnati (4-3) by that point it didn’t really matter.

He spread the wealth, too, connecting with eight targets. Tyreek Hill had seven catches for 68 yards and a touchdown, and Demetrius Harris hauled in the other TD catch.

The Bengals’ Andy Dalton was held to just 148 yards passing with a touchdown and an intercepti­on by the NFL’s worst defense.

The Chiefs, wearing their allred uniforms for the prime-time matchup, flexed some rare defensive muscle to open the game, creating a three-and-out for their first forced punt in 17 possession­s.

Mahomes and Hunt immediatel­y went to work.

With their quarterbac­k shredding the Bengals’ depleted backfield, and Hunt making the rest of the defense look downright foolish, the Chiefs marched 95 yards for a score.

Mahomes opened the second half by hitting Sammy Watkins for 50 yards. And six plays later, Hunt punched it in from a couple yards out for his third touchdown.

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