The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs predict lots from 2024’s first-round draft choose Xavier Worthy — however up to now, we have now seen little of what the speedy Texas wideout might do with quarterback Patrick Mahomes. A hamstring harm brought on the workforce to maintain him out of a lot of the offseason OTA and necessary minicamp practices.
However in accordance with head coach Andy Reid, Worthy’s time is coming.
“We’ll ease him in,” he advised reporters as his rookies and quarterbacks reported to Missouri Western State College in St. Joseph on Tuesday. “You understand, we’re not going to only give him each rep.”
However Mahomes didn’t sound like he was planning to chop Worthy a lot slack.
“There’s no ‘easing,’” he declared to reporters. “He’s going to be able to go. We’ve acquired lots of competitors on this offense; Brett Veach and coach did an important job bringing lots of competitors in. Xavier acquired lots of psychological work in these previous few weeks that he had throughout OTAs and minicamp — but it surely’s time to go now.”
Mahomes reminded his listeners {that a} yr in the past, rookie wideout Rashee Rice was labored over fairly relentlessly through the three rookie practices that opened coaching camp.
“Y’all noticed it with Rashee final yr,” he famous, “[with] a number of the ‘throwing-up days’ he had. We’re going to push you to the restrict, [so you can] put together your self to be able to go for the season.”
However Reid additionally acknowledges that it’s an enormous transition for his rookies.
“I feel it’s nice for all these guys simply to get in and grow to be acquainted — [to] undergo it yet one more time earlier than the veterans get in [and] every thing’s going 100 miles an hour,” he defined. “So it’s slowed down. They’ll get the identical set up — the primary three installs — for when the vets get in. So I feel it’s an actual optimistic for everyone — particularly Xavier, who didn’t have the chance to be out on the sphere — simply going by means of these routes and doing what he must do.”
Reid says the diminutive huge receiver is able to get some actual work.
“He needs to get in there and go,” stated the pinnacle coach. “It was driving him loopy to have to look at — you don’t wish to be the No. 1 choose, are available and be sitting on the bench and watching. He’s a aggressive child that desires to be in there — and we’re going to get him going.”
The excellent news for Worthy is that in these opening rookie/quarterback practices, he gained’t should compete with veterans for receiving reps.
“These traces are quick,” stated Reid, “[so] they’ll get loads of reps. We simply don’t need him re-hurting the factor and setting himself again.”
“We’re excited to get a few days with them,” stated Mahomes, “[to] get some early work in with them [on] timing.”
After throwing to him throughout his offseason exercises in Texas, Mahomes has seen sufficient of Worthy to be impressed with him.
“He wasn’t terrified of the second,” famous the quarterback. “That’s an enormous factor. I bear in mind after I got here in as a rookie, I didn’t get thrown in with the ‘ones’ like that. He’s coming straight in from mix coaching and [getting] thrown in with the ‘ones’ — and he’s competing. He’s not making the identical errors twice — and that’s big.
“The pads will come on now. It’s one other step within the journey for him. However I feel he’s excited for it, actually. We’ll see the place we’re at. We’ll preserve constructing — and see who comes out on prime on the finish of the competitors.”
