{"id":136067,"date":"2025-09-06T02:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/136067\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T02:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:21:07","slug":"chiefs-wr-xavier-worthy-collides-with-travis-kelce-ruled-out-with-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/136067\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs WR Xavier Worthy collides with Travis Kelce, ruled out with shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> were already shorthanded at receiver going into the season, with Rashee Rice serving a six-game suspension.<\/p>\n<p>They got even thinner on the first drive of the season.<\/p>\n<p>On a third down in the Chiefs&#8217; season opener in S\u00e3o Paulo against the Los Angeles Chargers, receiver Xavier Worthy and tight end <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/players\/26686\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Travis Kelce;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Kelce<\/a> collided as each ran crossing routes over the middle. Kelce is much larger than Worthy, and Worthy caught the worst of it.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs&#8217; athletic training staff worked on Worthy&#8217;s right shoulder as he went to the sideline, then during the Chargers&#8217; first drive he walked back to the locker room for more evaluation. The Chiefs announced he was questionable to return with a shoulder injury. Early in the second quarter, the team announced he would not return. That left Marquise Brown as the Chiefs&#8217; No. 1 receiver for the rest of the game, with JuJu Smith-Schuster picking up extra snaps.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Worthy, a second-year receiver who was Kansas City&#8217;s first-round draft pick last year, was expected to play a huge role with Rice out. Three plays into the season, that became a big question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs were already shorthanded at receiver going into the season, with Rashee Rice serving a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[16742,85285,1236,6337,31122,349,15980,29644,99,4144,17348,7652],"class_list":["post-136067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-icon-sportswire","tag-juju-smith-schuster","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-marquise-brown","tag-nfl","tag-rashee-rice","tag-shoulder-injury","tag-sports","tag-travis-kelce","tag-wide-receiver","tag-xavier-worthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}