Hartford Courant (Sunday)

CHIEFS (2-1) AT JETS (1-2)

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Time/TV: 8:20 p.m., NBC

Latest line: Chiefs by 9

Series record: Chiefs lead 20-19-1. Last meeting: Chiefs beat Jets 35-9 on Nov. 1, 2020, in Kansas City, Missouri.

Last week: Chiefs beat Bears 41-10; Jets lost to Patriots 15-10.

Chiefs player to watch: TE Travis Kelce. Taylor Swift is watching him, so why shouldn’t everyone else? He has 71 touchdown receptions, which is five behind Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end Tony Gonzalez for the franchise record. Jets player to watch: QB Zach Wilson. It has gotten ugly (again) for the 2021 No. 2 overall draft pick. Key matchup: Chiefs O-line vs.

Jets D-line. Mahomes has been getting excellent blocking in front of him, having been pressured on only 25.4% of his drop-backs this season — which is a career low. Series notes: The Chiefs have won three of the past four meetings. … The game marks the first for Mahomes at MetLife Stadium. … Andy Reid is 3-1 as coach of the Chiefs against the Jets, including 1-0 with Mahomes as his quarterbac­k. … The Jets are playing on Sunday night for the first time since losing 37-16 to New England in Week 10 of the 2011 season. … Kelce has caught a pass in 145 consecutiv­e games, five shy of Hall of Famer Ozzie Newsome for the secondlong­est streak among tight ends. … The Jets went 1 for 10 on third down against Dallas in Week 2 and 2 for 14 last Sunday against New England. For the season, they’re 8 for 37 with a 22% conversion rate ranking last in the NFL. … New York had just 12 first downs and averaged a measly 2.8 yards per play in the loss to the Patriots. … Wilson’s 57.0 quarterbac­k rating ranks last in the NFL. Last season, he became the first player since the 1970 merger to finish last in that category two years in a row, and is on pace for a third straight. … RB Breece Hall set the franchise record for the most yards per carry through a player’s first 10 games (minimum 50 carries) with 5.8. The previous best was Al Dorow in 1960, when he averaged 5.56 yards per carry for the then-NY Titans. … WR Garrett Wilson has 1,268 yards receiving in 20 games, the fewest to reach 1,200 yards receiving in Jets history. … FB Nick Bawden scored his first NFL touchdown on his first NFL carry last week. Bawden, who switched from QB to FB at San Diego State, has five catches in 22 games — but his 1-yard TD was the first time he carried the ball on a run.

— Associated Press

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