Following the 2025 NFL Draft, ESPN released its power rankings for all 32 NFL teams, slotting the Kansas City Chiefs in first. Although they had lost the Super Bowl just a few months earlier, ESPN still viewed Kansas City as the team to beat in 2025.

But getting to the big game is the fun of this series that Chiefs fans will cherish when The Kingdom airs on Thursday. All six episodes will premiere on ESPN+ and Disney+ Thursday, while Episodes 1 & 2 will debut on ESPN beginning at 8 p.m.

Get an exclusive look at the Kansas City Chiefs' 2024 season in "The Kingdom," a new ESPN Original Series directed by Kristen Lappas of Words + Pictures and produced by much of the team behind "The Last Dance.

The NFL scheduled the Chiefs in four standalone windows over the season’s first six weeks, not including a Super Bowl rematch with Philadelphia and a showdown w

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Hunt opens up on how the series aligns with the Chiefs’ entertainment prospects: “We have an opportunity with Foolish Club Studios to really expand on that to do both scripted and unscripted type ventures.

According to a report from Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports, former Missouri Tigers and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Chase Daniel is joining ESPN as a college football analyst. Daniel will broadcast college football games for the network on a crew that reportedly will include play-by-play announcer Clay Matvick.