FINAL: Seattle Seahawks 20, Kansas City Chiefs 3. The Seattle Seahawks beat the Kansas City Chiefs 20-3 at Lumen Field on Sunday night, October 25, 2026, handing Kansas City its first loss of the season in a Seahawks Chiefs 20-3 game that was decided by defence from the second quarter on.
Seattle improved to 4-3 and snapped a two game losing streak. Kansas City fell to 5-1, held to 213 total yards and 50 rushing yards, and kept out of the end zone entirely, with the Chiefs never reaching the red zone in a start by Patrick Mahomes for the first time in his career. The scoring went quarter by quarter: scoreless in the first, 10-0 Seattle in the second, 3-3 in the third, and 7-0 Seattle in the fourth.
Smith-Njigba Runs The First Half
Jaxon Smith-Njigba was the game’s offensive centre: 9 catches for 150 yards and a touchdown, with 129 of those yards coming in the first half. His 28 yard touchdown catch from Sam Darnold, a toe tap score with 1:44 left before the break, put Seattle up 10-0 after Jason Myers had opened the scoring with a 25 yard field goal. Myers added a 35 yarder in the third quarter, and the Seahawks’ lead never narrowed to one possession after halftime.
Darnold finished with 257 passing yards and the touchdown, against one costly mistake, an end zone interception just before halftime that Nohl Williams returned 64 yards. It was the only moment Kansas City threatened to change the game before the break, and the Chiefs turned it into nothing. Seattle teammate Nick Emmanwori summed up Smith-Njigba’s night afterward by calling him unguardable, and the coverage never found an answer that lasted two straight series.
Mahomes Held To 165 Yards
Patrick Mahomes went 19 of 33 for 165 yards with an interception, thrown to Ty Okada, and no touchdowns. The reunion angle fared no better for Kansas City: Kenneth Walker III, the former Seahawk who entered the night averaging a league leading 133 rushing yards per game, was held to 36 yards on 14 carries against his old team. Seattle also extended its streak without allowing a 100 yard rusher to 36 games, and the only 100 yard rusher in the stadium was Seattle’s Emanuel Wilson, who carried 24 times for 100 yards and closed the game with a 21 yard touchdown run with 3:47 left.
Kansas City head coach Andy Reid took the result on himself in the postgame press conference:
“Listen, all three phases we struggled, so we’ve got to do better, and that’s my responsibility. So I take full responsibility for this. We’ve got to play better as a team.”
Even the kicking game deserted the Chiefs, with Harrison Butker missing a 45 yard field goal in the fourth quarter when a make would have at least kept the pressure on. A field goal was all Kansas City managed all night.
Kelce Reaches Fifth All Time In Receptions
The one Kansas City milestone inside the loss belongs to Travis Kelce. His 4 catches for 44 yards took him to 1,104 career receptions, moving him past Marvin Harrison and Cris Carter into fifth place on the NFL’s all time receptions list. It is a Hall of Fame number reached on a night his offence produced three points, which is exactly the kind of stat line that will read strangely in the record book and accurately in the game story.
For Seattle, the Travis Kelce receptions record is a footnote to the larger point: this was a complete defensive performance against the league’s standard offence, at home, in prime time, ending a two game skid. The Seahawks called it a playoff level game internally, per Smith-Njigba’s postgame comments, and played it that way.
What It Means For Week 8
Kansas City visits Denver next Sunday with its unbeaten record gone and its offence looking for answers at every level, from protection to the run game to the kicking operation. Seattle hosts Chicago on Monday, November 2, with a chance to turn one prime time statement into a run. The Seahawks Chiefs 20-3 result will sit on both schedules all week: proof for Seattle that its defence travels to any matchup, and the first real problem of the season for the Chiefs to solve.
