2002 Kansas City Chiefs season

The 2002 season was the Kansas City Chiefs' 33rd in the National Football League, their 43rd overall and the franchise's 40th in Kansas City, Missouri.
In their second season under head coach Dick Vermeil, the Chiefs's high-powered offense was led by quarterback Trent Green and 2002 NFL Offensive Player of the Year Priest Holmes, who was named to the NFL All-Pro team for the second of three years in a row. Green had a 2-to-1 touchdown-to-interception ratio and Holmes led the league in touchdowns and overall scoring.
Kansas City scored 467 points, but gave up 399 points, the second most in the AFC and fifth-most in the NFL. Football Outsiders stated that the 2002 Chiefs have the second-largest Offense-Defense imbalance from 1992 to 2010. Football Outsiders also calculated that the Chiefs had the second most efficient running game in the same period.
The Chiefs' offense also set two new NFL records with the fewest fumbles in a season and fewest fumbles lost in a season, the latter of which still stands. Additionally, Trent Green and Marc Boerigter in the Chiefs week 16 game against the Chargers, tied the record for longest pass play in NFL history, becoming the ninth occurrence of a 99-yard pass play.

Offseason

In the 2002 season, the Chiefs' non-divisional, conference opponents were primarily from the AFC East. The Cleveland Browns were from the AFC North and the Jacksonville Jaguars were from the AFC South. Their non-conference opponents were from the NFC West.