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Los Angeles Chargers

0-4 · 0-2 awayLLLL

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Kansas City Chiefs

4-0 · 2-0 at homeWWWW

Los Angeles Chargers vs Kansas City Chiefs prediction and odds · Sun 18 Oct

Kansas City Chiefs host Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday 18 October.

Sunday 18 October 2026: Los Angeles Chargers at Kansas City Chiefs

Kansas City Chiefs host Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday 18 October. The bookies' prices make the Chiefs about an 8 in 10 chance to win. Our model's pick lands about 5 days before kickoff.

How they've been scoring this season

	Los Angeles Chargers	Kansas City Chiefs
Won-lost	0-4	4-0
Points scored per game	16.8	29.5
Points allowed per game	26.5	19.3
On the road / at home	0-2 away	2-0 at home
Last 5 games	LLLL	WWWW

Their games average 46.0 total points this season.

From the 4 Los Angeles Chargers and 4 Kansas City Chiefs games on our books this season.

Los Angeles Chargers vs Kansas City Chiefs odds

Prices for this game

Best price: Chiefs pay $1.26, Chargers pay $4.50 (the best of 9 bookies we checked). $100 on the Chiefs returns $126.

Fair chance (our read of the prices, with the bookies' cut taken out): Chiefs about 8 in 10, Chargers about 2 in 10.

How much the bookies keep: about $5.38 of every $100 bet on this game.

Since betting opened: the price has barely moved.

Our pick for this game

Our model's pick lands about 5 days before kickoff. Today's NFL picks are already up: see today's NFL picks.

Injuries & who's out

Injuries & availability

Los Angeles Chargers

• Branson Taylor GQuestionable
• Scott Matlock FBQuestionable
• Charlie Kolar TEQuestionable
• Rashawn Slater OTOut
• Trevor Penning GOut
• Kayode Awosika GOut
• Joe Alt OTOut
• Brenen Thompson WROut
• Trey Lance QBOut
• Derwin James Jr. SOut
• Donte Jackson CBOut
• Rodney Shelley CBQuestionable
• Quentin Johnston WROut
• Ladd McConkey WRQuestionable

Kansas City Chiefs

• Josh Simmons OTQuestionable
• Tyquan Thornton WROut
• Rashee Rice WRQuestionable

Availability updated Oct 10, 8:25PM UTC — NFL availability is season-pending (off-season); treat as a placeholder until the season opens. · refreshed roughly every 4 hours.

Los Angeles Chargers vs Kansas City Chiefs head-to-head record

Final scores · 22 meetings on record

Kansas City Chiefs 17–5 across the last 22 meetings · these games average 45.7 points (meetings on record since 2015)

Last meeting: Sun 14 Dec 2025, Los Angeles Chargers at Kansas City Chiefs: the Chargers won 16-13.

Date	Game	Score	Winner
14 Dec 2025	Los Angeles Chargers @ Kansas City Chiefs	13–16	Los Angeles Chargers
5 Sep 2025	Kansas City Chiefs @ Los Angeles Chargers	27–21	Los Angeles Chargers
8 Dec 2024	Los Angeles Chargers @ Kansas City Chiefs	19–17	Kansas City Chiefs
29 Sep 2024	Kansas City Chiefs @ Los Angeles Chargers	10–17	Kansas City Chiefs
7 Jan 2024	Kansas City Chiefs @ Los Angeles Chargers	12–13	Kansas City Chiefs
22 Oct 2023	Los Angeles Chargers @ Kansas City Chiefs	31–17	Kansas City Chiefs
20 Nov 2022	Kansas City Chiefs @ Los Angeles Chargers	27–30	Kansas City Chiefs
15 Sep 2022	Los Angeles Chargers @ Kansas City Chiefs	27–24	Kansas City Chiefs
16 Dec 2021	Kansas City Chiefs @ Los Angeles Chargers	28–34	Kansas City Chiefs
26 Sep 2021	Los Angeles Chargers @ Kansas City Chiefs	24–30	Los Angeles Chargers

Table shows the last 10 — the record above counts all 22 meetings on file.

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