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No Kelce? No Problem

NFL Week 16 - The Kansas City Chiefs were supposed to be vulnerable on Sunday.

Travis Kelce was out due to COVID. Tyreek Hill was a last-minute returnee who hadn't practiced all week. Harrison Butker was also out, leaving the kicking chores in the hands of someone named Elliot Fry. And the Steelers were coming off one of their gritty we-want-it-more wins in Week 15 and had their proverbial backs to the proverbial wall.

All the Steelers had to do was double-cover Hill and Patrick Mahomes would start coughing up turnovers, right? Or play two high safeties, that magical pentagram of a defensive alignment which supposedly ensorceles great quarterbacks.