Kansas City Chiefs vs Las Vegas Raiders, Week 4 2026

Chiefs vs Raiders is the first AFC West meeting of the year, and it arrives with Maxx Crosby healthy again and Las Vegas having spent an offseason building a defense around him.

Kickoff is 4:25 PM ET on Sunday, October 4, 1:25 in the afternoon in Las Vegas, on CBS. From the opening snap this page runs itself: live score, real time score, game leaders, box scores, play-by-play with the game flow chart and team statistics, every panel updating without anyone hitting refresh.

Chiefs vs Raiders is also the Viva Los Raiders game, the club's Hispanic Heritage Month date at Allegiant Stadium.

Chiefs vs Raiders Start Time, TV Channel and Live Stream

CBS carries Chiefs vs Raiders in the late afternoon window, with Paramount+ streaming it, which makes this a doubleheader game rather than a regional one. Kansas City sits two hours ahead of Las Vegas, so the visitors are playing on a 6:25 body clock while the home crowd gets an early afternoon start.

Maxx Crosby Is Back and It Shows

Crosby missed a chunk of last season and spent this camp reminding everyone what that cost. He was in the backfield constantly, collecting would-be sacks on Kirk Cousins and tipping balls at the line, and linebacker Quay Walker put it plainly: you cannot tell he went through what he went through last year.

Las Vegas built around him rather than leaning on him alone. Kwity Paye joined the defensive line, Nakobe Dean and Quay Walker came in at linebacker, and rookies Keyron Crawford and Treydan Stukes are in the rotation. Klint Kubiak kept Crosby out of the preseason entirely, which tells you how the staff is rationing him.

Chiefs vs Raiders is the first divisional test of whether that group travels from practice to Sunday.

Kansas City's Receivers Are Whole Again

The Chiefs spent camp at Missouri Western State in St. Joseph, working through eight padded practices in ten days, and the part that mattered was the passing game finally having bodies.

Rashee Rice was busy on downfield work. Xavier Worthy came back from a shoulder sprain, limited at first. Tyquan Thornton has a year with Patrick Mahomes behind him now, which showed in throws into tight windows and down the sideline that a quarterback only makes when he trusts the route. Jalen Royals and Jeff Caldwell added leaping catches in team periods, so the depth behind the top three is real rather than theoretical.

Chiefs vs Raiders puts that group against four fresh pass rushers, which is the sort of afternoon where a healthy receiver room either earns its billing or does not.

Chiefs vs Raiders: What Both Teams Fixed

The symmetry is unusual for a division game. Las Vegas rebuilt a defense. Kansas City rebuilt an offense, mostly by getting people back on the field rather than signing new ones.

Kirk Cousins has spent camp building a connection with Brock Bowers, hitting him in the red zone repeatedly and looking his way under pressure, so Chiefs vs Raiders is not a one-sided proposition. But the cleanest question of the afternoon is whether Crosby can wreck a game the way he did before he got hurt.

Rosters are set. The cut to 53 passed on August 30. Follow the Chiefs and Raiders pages, and check the AFC West standings a month into the season. The rest of the slate sits on the 2026 NFL schedule.

The Field That Lives Outside

Allegiant Stadium solved an argument nobody else had to have: how to grow real grass in the Mojave Desert inside a sealed building. The answer was to stop keeping it inside. The playing surface sits in a movable tray weighing close to 20 million pounds, riding on 540 electrically powered wheels, and it rolls out of the stadium to sit in the sun and take water between games.

That means the grass you see on Sunday spent most of the week in the desert air outside, then came back in through a wall. The building can also host events on turf with the tray parked outside, which is why the same stadium works for football and for everything else Las Vegas books into it.

The other thing to look for is the Al Davis Memorial Torch, among the largest 3D-printed structures anywhere, standing inside the stadium for the former owner, general manager and head coach. If you are going to Chiefs vs Raiders, it is worth arriving early enough to see it lit. The stadium's building stats page has the rest of the numbers.

Chiefs vs Raiders FAQ

Chiefs vs Raiders opens the division with a pass rusher back on his feet and a receiver room that finally has all of its parts. Come back on game day for inactives and the live score.

Last updated: August 27, 2026