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Winning another Super Bowl without Tyreek Hill won’t be easy for

Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs

By ROB MAADDI of a factor on Monday,
AP Pro Football Writer catching four balls for 42
Coach Andy Reid figured yards. Watson had five
out his franchise quarter- receptions on 11 targets
back needed a true No. 1 for 53 yards and one TD.
wide receiver after five sea- Valdes-Scantling had no
sons as a head coach and catches on three targets,
three straight losses in the including the costly drop.
NFC championship game. The Chiefs lead the NFL with
Now, Patrick Mahomes 26 drops this season. They
knows what Donovan have the fewest second-
McNabb went through in half points in the league,
Philadelphia. McNabb’s including zero in the past
top wide receivers in his first three games.
five seasons were Torrance Of course, it’s not all on the
Small, Charles Johnson, receivers. They had two
James Thrash and Todd turnovers Mahomes’ inter-
Pinkston. When the Eagles ception and Kelce’s fum-
acquired Terrell Owens ble in the red zone against
in 2004, McNabb had his Philadelphia.
best season and the team The Chiefs already have as
reached the Super Bowl. many losses as last season
Reid, Mahomes and the when they won their sev-
Kansas City Chiefs have Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling is unable to catch a pass during the enth straight AFC West title
won two Super Bowls to- fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, in and hosted the conference
gether, including one last Kansas City, Mo. title game for the fifth con-
year without Tyreek Hill. But Associated Press secutive year. They’ve got
it’ll be hard for them to win hands to seal Kansas City’s Hill in the fifth round of the yards while Kelce had 110 a much-improved defense
another one without a de- 21-17 loss to Philadelphia 2016 NFL draft. catches for 1,338 yards. that will help overcome the
pendable receiver other on Monday night. But the Chiefs (7-3) didn’t Smith-Schuster left in free offense’s deficiencies, but
than tight end Travis Kelce. After seeing Owens’ im- replace Hill after trading agency and Kansas City Mahomes needs a reliable
Marquez Valdes-Scantling pact on McNabb and the the All-Pro receiver to Mi- selected Rashee Rice in outside threat to catch the
dropped what should’ve Eagles, Reid began to pri- ami before last season and the second round of the deep ball and make big
been a go-ahead 51-yard oritize wide receivers. He they went on to beat the draft to help fill the void this plays.The Chiefs visit the
TD pass in the fourth quarter drafted DeSean Jackson Eagles in the Super Bowl season. Rice leads the wide Las Vegas Raiders (5-6) on
and Justin Watson couldn’t and Jeremy Maclin in Philly, anyway. JuJu Smith-Schus- receivers with 36 recep- Sunday after falling a half-
catch a fourth-and-25 brought Maclin to Kansas ter led the wide receiv- tions for 420 yards through game behind Baltimore for
pass that went through his City and hit a home run on ers with 78 catches for 933 10 games. He wasn’t much the AFC’s No. 1 seed.q

Tiger Woods and son Charlie to play in PNC Championship again

By DOUG FERGUSON ites because of his partner: one tournament he has not year. ter Izzi, a state high school
AP Golf Writer His son. missed during the last inju- Woods is to play next week champion in Wisconsin.
Tiger Woods is returning to Woods and 14-year-old ry-plagued four years. at his Hero World Chal- Padraig Harrington is play-
the PNC Championship, Charlie are playing the “It is an amazing gift to lenge in the Bahamas for ing for the sixth year, this
the 36-hole event that has PNC Championship for the be able to share my love the first time since surgery time with youngest son Ci-
become one of his favor- fourth straight year, the of golf with Charlie and to fuse his right ankle in April aran instead of Paddy.
we genuinely do look for- after the Masters. Because “It was actually Ciaran
ward to playing in the PNC the PNC Championship is watching Paddy and I play
Championship all years,” run by the PGA Tour Cham- together out there these
Woods said Wednesday. pions, Woods is allowed to last couple of years that
“Competing together, ride in a cart. really ignited his passion
against a field of so many The tournament is for ma- for the game, which shows
golfing greats and their jor champions or winners of what a very special event
families, is so special.” The Players Championship. this is,” Harrington said. “He
The PNC Championship is It began as a father-son must have watched me
Dec. 16-17 at the Ritz-Carl- outing and now has gone play in hundreds of events
ton Golf Club Orlando at modern, with tour players over the years and it has
Grande Lakes. having sons and daugh- taken the unique atmo-
Woods and son were ters, grandchildren, even sphere and experience of
runner-up in 2021, just 10 parents as their partners. the PNC Championship to
months after Woods badly New to the field this year is inspire him!” Also back is
damaged his right leg and a formidable pair of Steve Lee Trevino, who at 84 is the
Tiger Woods, left, congratulates his son Charlie Woods, right, ankle in a car crash in Los Stricker, who won three of only player to have com-
after finishing the 18th hole during the first round of the PNC Angeles. They finished sev- the four majors he played peted in the PNC Cham-
Championship golf tournament Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022, in enth in their 2020 debut on the PGA Tour Champi- pionship every year since it
Orlando, Fla.
Associated Press and tied for eighth last ons this year, and daugh- began in 1995.q