KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Tennessee Titans’ ongoing COVID-19 outbreak may impact the Chiefs’ schedule for next week, postponing yet another game.
The NFL has decided to push back the Titans’ scheduled game Sunday against the Buffalo Bills until Tuesday in hopes of squeezing it in next week.
Kansas City is scheduled to play Thursday, Oct. 15, at Buffalo, but that game also would be moved if the Bills-Titans game is played Tuesday, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Titans-Bills game scheduled for Sunday is being moved to Tuesday at 6 pm as long as there are no more positive tests with Tennessee, per sources.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 8, 2020
Bills-Chiefs game being switched from next Thursday to Sunday but goes back it more positive tests in Tennessee, per source.
The change to Tuesday is contingent on Tennessee not having anymore positive tests.
If that game can be played, the Chiefs-Bills game would move to Sunday, Oct. 18, according to Schefter. It would still be played at Bills Stadium in Orchard Park, New York.
The move actually should help the Chiefs, who host the Las Vegas Raiders at noon on Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium and were going to have a long trip and short week to prepare for the Bills.
Kansas City and Buffalo are the only AFC teams to have started 4-0 in 2020.
Nearly two dozens players and staff for the Titans have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last two weeks, including one more player Thursday.
The game against Buffalo remains subject to no additional COVID-19 tests for Tennessee, whose game last Sunday against Pittsburgh was postponed until Oct. 25.
The Chiefs' game last weekend against the New England Patriots was postponed from Sunday to Monday after players for both teams tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday.
No additional Chiefs players have tested positive this week, but two more Patriots tested positive. That prompted the NFL to postpone the Denver-New England game from Sunday to Monday, the second straight week the Patriots' game has been pushed back one day.
