Super Bowl 2025 Score: Final Box Score and Analysis from Chiefs vs. Eagles

Expectations of a close Super Bowl LIX were put to bed early Sunday night in New Orleans as the Philadelphia Eagles threw, rushed, sacked, and intercepted their way to victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, denying them a three-peat and confirming that the best team in pro football resides in the City of Brotherly Love.

Game MVP Jalen Hurts was once again at his best on the big stage, the Eagles' No. 1 ranked defense proved why it was the league's premier unit, and even in defeat, a young wide receiver established himself as one of the great big-play threats in the game.

Those stories dominated a game that was never close, hardly in doubt, and not nearly as competitive as the still one-sided 40-22 final score would indicate.

Early on, the Eagles' defense set the tone.

The unit allowed one first down and just 23 total yards in the first half. They hurried, hit, and sacked Mahomes early and often, not allowing him to get comfortable and find his receivers downfield.

When Mahomes managed to roll out and avoid the pressure, he missed rookie cornerback Cooper DeJean, who intercepted him and ran it back for a touchdown, finding the end zone on the biggest stage in football on his 22nd birthday.

Linebacker Zach Baun added another interception and the defense downed Mahomes six times, one shy of the Super Bowl record.

Milton Williams recorded two of the six sacks, one of which was a strip and fumble recovery that allowed the team to extend the lead late. Josh Sweat may have been the most dominant defender on the field, tallying 2.5 sacks and pressuring Mahomes into the aforementioned Baun interception.

In a year where all of the pregame hype surrounded the biggest and brightest offensive superstars on the field, it was the unsung defensive heroes that proved the difference, shut down one of the great offensive units in the league, and set the table for the offense to tally points and roll to victory.

For the second time in his career, Hurts rolled up to the biggest game of the year and turned in a magnificent individual performance.

The much-scrutinized quarterback silenced anyone doubting his ability to lead his team to a world title, completing 17-of-22 passes for 221, two touchdowns, and an interception. He added 11 rushes for 72 yards, breaking his own Super Bowl record for rushing yards by a quarterback, and a touchdown.

The Chiefs game-planned to take running back Saquon Barkley out of the equation and they did but in the process, they essentially dared Hurts to beat them and he did just that.

He was cool, calm, and collected as he hit DeVonta Smith early in the first quarter, added two passes to tight end Dallas Goedert for 27 yards, and found AJ Brown for a touchdown (24-0). It was the 46-yard touchdown to Smith in the third quarter that put the game out of reach and was essentially the dagger in Kansas City's championship hopes (34-0).

For a player who used the imagery of him walking off the field amid the red and yellow confetti that poured from the ceiling at the end of Super Bowl LVII as motivation, and had to listen to critics doubt his ability to pass his team to a championship, Hurts blocked out the noise and once again proved his worth when the lights were brightest and the stage was the biggest.

He earned the Super Bowl LIX MVP award for his play and on a night when the defense was as dominant as it was, one would still be hard-pressed to pinpoint another player more deserving of the honor.

It was difficult to find one thing to be optimistic about on the Chiefs' side of things. That is, except for the continued emergence of rookie wide receiver Xavier Worthy.

Even with his quarterback facing the biggest deficit of his starting career, Worthy continued to work to find openings against a stingy Eagles defense. The speedster out of Texas did, hauling in eight passes for 157 yards and two touchdowns, including a 50-yarder in garbage time.

The fastest man on the field probably should have been factored into the Chiefs' gameplan more than he was as his speed likely would have slowed the Eagles' pass rush, but that was not the case and the outcome was what it was.

Still, despite the shoulda, couldas that will haunt Chiefs fans for the entirety of the offseason, Worthy presented himself as a potential game-breaking playmaker for a team that desperately needed more of them on this night.