The Kansas City Chiefs are Super Bowl champions once again, and this time it was partially due to special teams play.
That’s not something anyone expected after the volatile season that coordinator Dave Toub’s unit had in 2022. Some of the Chiefs’ special teams subunits were downright bad during the regular season, with the punt return squad performing the worst.
However, it was the Chiefs’ punt return squad that put the team in position to take a larger lead against the Philadelphia Eagles in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LVII, just two weeks after it did the exact same thing in the AFC Championship Game against the Cincinnati Bengals. So after all of this season’s trials and tribulations, the Chiefs’ punt return squad figured things out when it mattered most.
With our final Chiefs special teams film review of the 2022-23 season, we will highlight the astonishing fourth-quarter punt return by receiver/returner Kadarius Toney in Super Bowl 57. Following this review, be on the lookout for our final full-season Chiefs special teams review coming in the next couple of weeks, where I’ll dive further into the stats, snap counts and grades for individual players that I compiled during the season.