The Kansas City Chiefs are 3-0 and the team has linebacker Nick Bolton to thank for their close win over the Atlanta Falcons in Week 3.
Sure, a lot goes into winning football games, but Bolton had clutch play after clutch play during the primetime win on Sunday Night Football, including the game-sealing stuff on 4th-and-inches to get KC the ball back so Patrick Mahomes could kneel out the game.
The Chiefs once again had all of us on the edge of our seats as the game was winding down but Bolton came up big in that moment. Earlier in the half, Bolton had actually left the game and was being checked on the sideline after sustaining what looked to be an injury to his right hip/lower back area.
That didn’t stop Bolton from coming back into the game and putting a bow on the game with the stop of Bijan Robinson on the Falcons’ final play. Had Robinson gotten that conversion, the Falcons very well could have gone on to score a touchdown and then the pressure would have been on Mahomes and the offense to get down the field and at least get a field goal…