Wide Receiver · Kansas City Chiefs

Xavier Worthy

No. 1 · 3rd season

53 touches and a whole offseason to think about it

There is a version of this where 53 touches across an entire season is a disappointment. There is also a version where it is an unlit fuse.

Xavier Worthy came to the Kansas City Chiefs as one of the fastest players the league had seen in years — the kind of speed that changes what a defense has to think about before the snap. Last season, that threat lived mostly in the threat itself. Fifty-three touches. A quiet year by most measures.

Now the calendar is ticking toward 2026 and Worthy is still there, still on the roster, still carrying the same speed and the same open question. What happens when they actually use him?

For a team that has built a dynasty on knowing exactly when to deploy a weapon, a full season of underuse is either a mistake they fix or a choice they revisit. Either way, Worthy is heading into next year with something to prove — and, more importantly, room to prove it.

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