{"id":37255,"date":"2025-11-07T01:08:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37255"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:08:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:08:43","slug":"pff-nick-bolton-received-chiefs-highest-grade-in-week-9-loss-to-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37255","title":{"rendered":"PFF: Nick Bolton received Chiefs&#8217; highest grade in Week 9 loss to Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/11\/04\/SCHF\/87091749007-usatsi-27471929.jpg?crop=5388,3031,x0,y189&amp;width=660&amp;height=371&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"PFF: Nick Bolton was Chiefs' highest graded player in loss to Bills\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0were handed their fourth loss of the season on Sunday after falling to the\u00a0Buffalo Bills\u00a0in heartbreaking fashion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The\u00a0Chiefs&#8217; defense overcame a litany of errors and miscues by the offense in Week 9 to keep the Bills&#8217; lead within arm&#8217;s reach for most of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Kansas City&#8217;s front seven, led this week by linebacker Nick Bolton, significantly slowed down Buffalo&#8217;s rushing attack in the second half of Sunday&#8217;s game and kept star running back James Cook out of the end zone for all four quarters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The experts at Pro Football Focus took notice of the former Missouri Tiger&#8217;s standout game and awarded him a grade of 91.0, the highest among his teammates in Sunday&#8217;s loss.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Highest-graded <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Chiefs<\/a> players in Week 9 contest vs the Bills, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PFF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PFF<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47LB, Nick Bolton (91.0)<br \/>\ud83e\udd48DT, Mike Pennel (83.3)<br \/>\ud83e\udd49WR, Hollywood Brown (80.4)<br \/> 4) DE, Ashton Gillotte (79.8)<br \/> 5) LG, Kingsley Suamataia (75.5)<br \/> 6) C, Creed Humphrey (73.8)<\/p>\n<p>*minimum 20 snaps* <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BzsF89oXnG\">pic.twitter.com\/BzsF89oXnG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KC Sports Network (@KCSportsNetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KCSportsNetwork\/status\/1985400342331146538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Bolton has been one of the league&#8217;s most reliable linebackers since being selected by Kansas City in the second round of the 2021 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Texas native should be in for a lighter workload in Week 11 when the Chiefs take on the\u00a0Denver Broncos\u00a0at Mile High Stadium after the bye week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0were handed their fourth loss of the season on Sunday after falling to the\u00a0Buffalo Bills\u00a0in heartbreaking fashion. 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