Chiefs face these big questions for a season that ended before anyone expected

The NFL playoffs are set to begin, and for the first time in more than a decade, the Chiefs won’t be part of the action.On SportsBeat KC, the sports podcast of The Star and KCUR, Chiefs Insider Pete Sweeney sums up a season gone wrong. The Chiefs, who have appeared in five of the past six Super Bowls, lost their final five games to finish 6-11.Questions abound: Will Travis Kelce return next season? Will Patrick Mahomes be healthy? Which free agents will the Chiefs target, and with a top ten pick in the NFL Draft, what direction will the Chiefs take?It will be a Chiefs offseason like no other in the past decade.SportsBeat KC is the sports podcast of The Kansas City Star and KCUR, hosted by Blair Kerkhoff. It’s produced by Monty Davis, Irvin Zhang, Suzanne Hogan, and Gabriella Lacey, and edited by Jeff Rosen and Scott Chasen.