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Chiefs Beat Colts, Kelce Makes History, Two Franchises Fall Apart
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Travis Kelce did not just beat the Colts on Sunday night, he beat the Chiefs' own record book, breaking Kansas City's all-time receptions mark in a game his team needed overtime to survive at Arrowhead. That is a 36-year-old tight end still rewriting a franchise ledger three years after the football world started drafting his retirement column, and Kansas City needed every one of those catches, because Indianapolis had the arithmetic right up until the final possession. Two hundred miles east in New York, the Giants' afternoon ended with Jaxson Dart carted off with a knee injury and Aaron Donald back on an NFL field for the first time since retirement, in a 6-28 loss.

The injury list was long elsewhere too. Caleb Williams left Chicago's loss week-to-week with a hamstring strain, with Tyson Bagent now set to start again for the Bears. Across town in the Bronx, the Yankees put Aaron Judge back on the injured list with a calf strain, one week after he'd returned from a fractured rib. None of that stopped CeeDee Lamb's monster game against Washington from triggering the league's routine drug test, the NFL's way of reminding a receiver having the best week of his career that greatness still gets a cup handed to it in a hallway.

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