KANSAS CITY Dustin Colquitt Jersey , Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs finally got Justin Houston back onto the field Sunday against Arizona, and the four-time Pro Bowl linebacker made one of the plays of the game when he picked off Cardinals quarterback Josh Rosen on a second-half screen pass.The Chiefs also got safety Daniel Sorensen back from injured reserve, where he had resided since breaking his leg in training camp, and he had five tackles while providing a hard-hitting presence.Perhaps it’s no surprise the Kansas City defense played the best it has all season.With two of their anticipated starters back on the field, the Chiefs held the Cardinals to 260 yards in a 26-14 victory. They sacked Rosen five times, intercepted him twice and even managed to keep David Johnson under 100 yards rushing — barely.“I feel like the first couple weeks we were putting too much into it, trying too hard,” linebacker Reggie Ragland said. “We’re having fun with it. Whatever happens, happens. It’s football. We’ve been playing this game for too long for us not to have fun with it. It’s a child’s game and we’re grown men playing it, so have fun with it. Don’t worry about all that other stuff.”The Chiefs (9-1) sure looked as if they were having a ball Sunday.Dee Ford had his ninth sack of the season, plus three tackles for a loss and four hits on Rosen. Allen Bailey had his fifth sack while Chris Jones had two more to give him a career-high seven for the season, including at least one sack in six consecutive games.All told, Rosen was hit 13 times and fumbled once while trying to throw. He had 208 yards passing and one score.“The one thing we’re doing right now is we are minimizing big plays,” defensive tackle Jarvis Jenkins said. “That is one thing we all play on is minimizing big plays Rashad Fenton Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys , then getting them one-dimensional so we can rush the passer. I think we did that this game.”The only game in which the defense played nearly as well was Cincinnati, when the Chiefs allowed 239 yards in a 45-10 rout. But it’s often easier to play stingy defense when the game has gotten out of hand, and on Sunday the Chiefs needed to show up in a game that Arizona managed to keep relatively close.“That’s happened a couple of times now, things have stalled out (on offense), then they step up and make plays,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “That’s a great thing. We need that as a football team. We need that. It’s important.”Especially given who is up next: The Chiefs are headed to Mexico City to face the high-flying Los Angeles Rams on Monday night in a matchup of two of the NFL’s most dynamic offenses.The Rams are second in yards-per-game and the Chiefs are third, and those rankings are flipped when it comes to scoring with Kansas City second and Los Angeles third.In other words, it’s a good time for the Chiefs’ maligned defense to start showing up.They can still get a whole lot better. Middle linebacker Anthony Hitchens was out Sunday with bruised ribs, and backup linebacker Frank Zombo missed the game with a hamstring injury, giving undrafted rookie Ben Niemann a chance to start his first NFL game.“I was still on four phases of special teams,” Niemann said, “so I got a little tired out there. But it was good. You want to play. You want to play as many snaps as possible.”Someone else who wants to play? Eric Berry, the Chiefs’ star safety, who still hasn’t played since tearing his Achilles’ tendon in the season opener last year. Berry practiced throughout the summer and into training camp Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys 2019 , but a heel injury has kept him off the field for months.It would be another boon for the defense if he can return in any effective capacity.“Sooner or later, it has to be the defense (stepping up),” Jenkins said. “That’s part of being a team. You can’t be one-dimensional. I think the feeling we have now is it’s a good team. It wasn’t pretty (Sunday), but we got it done. That’s what we have to do.”NOTES: Reid said Monday he’s not concerned about the field conditions at Azteca Stadium, where the combination of concerts and soccer matches have wrecked the turf. “I’ve seen it,” Reid said, “but I think the NFL is on top of it. They do a great job with all that stuff.” … Reid said he doesn’t expect Patrick Mahomes to miss practice after his girlfriend’s stepfather died suddenly Sunday. The Chiefs are off Tuesday and Wednesday. “He’s here this morning and he’s got things set there, organized and settled down,” Reid said, “so he can do what he’s got to do here.”100<button class="view-gallery">View Gallery</button> Gallery:View from the sidelines: NFL cheerleaders 2018Raj Mehta-USA TODAY Sports | Raj Mehta 2017 sixth-round draft pick Justin Senior announced the sighing via his Instagram account."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Kansas City Chiefs NewsOpen ThreadsFull ArchiveLibrary Community GuidelinesContact InformationOdds Shop About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub 鉁旵hiefs confirm signing of offensive tackle Justin SeniorNew,35comments2017 sixth-round draft pick Justin Senior announced the sighing via his Instagram account.CSTShareTweetShareShareChiefs confirm signing of offensive tackle Justin SeniorGlenn Andrews-USA TODAY SportsUPDATE: February 19, 11:40 a.m. Arrowhead TimeChiefs confirm.Justin Senior is a Kansas City Chief, per himself.The 24-year-old offensive lineman announced the move on his Instagram account.Senior, a Montreal native Infant Rashad Fenton Jersey , played college football at Mississippi State, starting 38 games at right tackle from 2014-16. Senior was selected by the Seattle Seahawks with the 210th overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. He was also taken by the Edmonton Eskimos in the fifth round of the CFL Draft.Counting starting right guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, the Chiefs now have two offensive linemen who hail from Montreal, Canada, on the roster. Add in Ryan Hunter, who is originally from Ontario, and that makes three offensive linemen on the Chiefs from north of the border. Senior won the 2016 Kent Hull trophy as the state of Mississippi’s top offensive lineman. He was a three-time member of the SEC’s academic honor roll and was invited to the Senior Bowl following his final season in Starkville.Senior played two college seasons (2014-15) with defensive lineman Chris Jones while also protecting eventual Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, who threw for more than 3,400 yards and ran for more than 950 yards in 2014. Rotoworld had these notes on Senior back in 2017:Senior was waived off of injured reserve (knee) back in December of 2017 and presumably spent 2018 without a team getting healthy. Chiefs general manager Brett Veach must see some upside in Senior, and he will now get an opportunity to work with Andy Heck, the Chiefs OL coach who has made starters out of rookies like Mitch Morse (2015) and developed Duvernay-Tardif into a viable starter.