{"id":1919,"date":"2025-07-11T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/1919\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T16:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:00:03","slug":"xavier-worthy-andy-reid-told-us-to-get-our-hamstrings-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/1919\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Worthy: Andy Reid told us to get our hamstrings ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the Chiefs won the AFC for the third consecutive season in 2024, quarterback Patrick Mahomes finished the year with a career-low 6.8 yards per attempt.<\/p>\n<p>That signified how Kansas City\u2019s offense was not able to stretch the field throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes noted during the offseason program that the Chiefs <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/patrick-mahomes-if-we-can-get-back-to-hitting-deep-shots-it-opens-up-the-offense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">plan to change that in 2025<\/a> with a healthy receiving corps. In an interview with Up &amp; Adams this week, speedy second-year wideout Xavier Worthy reiterated that notion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoach [Andy] Reid told us during OTAs, Phase I, \u2018When you come back, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/heykayadams\/status\/1943344714922529132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">get your hamstrings ready<\/a>,\u2019\u201d Worthy said. \u201cSo, he kind of knew that we were going to be going a little deep in practice, so we kind of got our bodies and our minds ready [for] what we were going to be doing in practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Playing long seasons over the last few years, Reid has let the players work remotely for Phase I before coming into the team facility in Phase II for in-person work.<\/p>\n<p>But Reid also runs a notoriously tough training camp, so Worthy and the rest of Kansas City\u2019s receivers will need to be in top shape for their first practices of the summer later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though the Chiefs won the AFC for the third consecutive season in 2024, quarterback Patrick Mahomes finished the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","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=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}