Most of the attention is going to be on both QBs and playcallers on both sides (whichever team can defend the pass out of their base personnel the best might win this game), but I’m going to focus on one player whose role has increased since the last time these two played: Chiefs’ rookie wideout Xavier Worthy.

For the seventh year in a row, Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are back in the AFC Championship Game. After knocking out the Houston Texans in the Divisional Round, the defending Super Bowl champs are only one win away from their third straight AFC title and fifth in six years.