The Chiefs got a welcome Xavier Worthy update after a brief scare at practice, and for a team banking on his speed to matter in a big way, the timing couldn’t be better.
Kansas City has been waiting for the former first-round pick to show why it spent the 2024 NFL Draft capital on him. Worthy entered last season with major expectations, but his rookie year never really got off the ground after a shoulder injury on the third play of the season opener knocked him off track.
He did make it back, but the version of Worthy the Chiefs wanted to unleash never fully showed up. Once he returned, Kansas City kept his route tree limited and handled him carefully while he worked through the injury. That meant the explosive playmaker who terrorized college defenses never got the chance to consistently stretch the field the way the team envisioned.
Now the picture looks different. Worthy is heading into his second NFL season healthy, and the Chiefs are planning to use him in more ways.
Screen passes and crossing routes are part of the plan, giving him chances to turn quick throws into chunk gains. With fellow playmaker Walker in the mix, Kansas City believes it has enough firepower to keep defenses under constant stress.
There was reason for concern on Saturday when Worthy left practice with what the team called a shoulder injury. After last season’s issues, that immediately set off alarms. But the early word is that it is not considered serious, which is the kind of news the Chiefs desperately wanted to hear.
The optimism around Worthy got another boost after Friday’s workout, when one coach came away impressed enough to say, “He looks so fast,”
That’s the kind of line Kansas City has been waiting to hear. If Worthy stays on the field, the Chiefs could have a far more dangerous offense in 2026, with Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid in place to put his speed to work.
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