The Kansas City Chiefs have relied on rookie wide receiver Xavier Worthy more than they had planned to when they selected him with the No. 27 pick in the first round of the 2024 NFL draft last April.
Injuries ravaged Kansas City’s depth at the wide receiver position early in the Chiefs’ 2024 campaign, and Worthy was thrown into the fire much earlier than many fans expected him to be.
But, the former Texas Longhorn rose to the occasion and officially broke Kansas City’s franchise record for most touchdowns from scrimmage by a rookie in Chiefs history.
The team commemorated Worthy’s outstanding accomplishment in a post to its official Twitter account:
Though Kansas City has seen veteran wideout Marquise ‘Hollywood’ Brown take the field in recent weeks after he recovered from an upper-body injury that affected his availability early in the season, Worthy’s role in the Chiefs’ offense won’t soon be supplanted by any of the team’s other pass-catchers.