Xavier Worthy thinks the Chiefs are ‘JUST GETTING STARTED’ 👀 | The Rich Eisen Show

Xavier Worthy thinks the Chiefs are ‘JUST GETTING STARTED’ 👀 | The Rich Eisen Show

in the AFC back from uh few games off due to injury. Xavier Worthy of the Kansas City Chiefs back here on the show. Great to see Xavier Worthy. How are you? Good. How are you? I’m I’m better for seeing you. Last time I saw you was on the turf in Brazil before the game. Um and now here you are coming off of an excellent game uh for the Chiefs and we all know what happened on that night in Brazil. Can you walk me through what that night was like for you, Xavier? Um, I mean, um, just I just I ain’t going to lie, just the play happened. I didn’t even know what happened when I was on the field. I just remember just being hit and I felt like my shoulder felt weird and try to get up and when I tried to get up, I just couldn’t. And I had one of the teammates hug me up and I got up and my shoulder felt a little weird and they popped it back in place. We went back try to run some tests, try to see if I could go and I couldn’t. And um, I mean that was it. I mean I really just that was my first time being injured so I didn’t know how to react. Well, I I I’d imagine that was my next question. So, you didn’t know how to react just in terms of uh how severe it was, but you knew pretty much right away that that that your Brazil night was was over. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Okay. And then what was it like uh trying to get back on the field for you in Man, I was I feel like I was a man on a mission. Uh Coach Reed probably said it the best. I had my rehab probably I I probably was rehabbing like three times, two times a day just to be able just to get back on the field. And was there was a time where I guess surgery was considered for you, Xavier? Uh, no. For me, I never wanted if if I had to get surgery, it was something that would have had to be done. But if it was an option, I wasn’t going to do the surgery option. Okay. So, now here you are. And how how does it feel playing football? That feels good. I mean, I’ve never missed a game in my life. So just missing those games, I feel like it just kind of made me appreciate the game even more. Never. Never in high school, never in Pop Warner, never never in college. Never never, never ever. How’d you deal with that? Uh man, I was I mean I had talked to my mom. I just I mean I just wanted to work my way back just to be with the guys. I mean I feel like I’m kind of like the energy guy just to spark the guys up to get the handshakes going, the dances. I feel like I just want to be that for the team and if they need a play, I’m the guy to make the play. At any point in time were you consoling Kelsey Travis at any point in time? Oh yeah, me and Tra Yeah, me and Tra definitely talked about it. I mean, Travis’s my guy and Tra knows that like regardless it’s it’s football. It happens. So, never want to put that on Tra. So, it’s just always good to have somebody like that in the corner. Of course. I mean, that’s why I asked if you were consoling him cuz I’m sure he was inconsolable at some point over this moment, Xavier. And then now we saw what you looked like um in this game. uh in this past game against the Ravens. Is this um the the Xavier worthy we were going to see that night in Brazil in terms of the game plan and your involvement in it and what we’re going to see from the Chiefs offense moving forward, Xavier? Um yes, sir. I I definitely hope so. I mean, I I worked so hard in the offseason. Uh my receiver coach, Connor Embry, he I feel like he just gave me like the tools and what I needed to work on to be able to become the player that I’m trying to become now. And I feel like I worked on it and I feel like I I excelled in those things in all season. If you wouldn’t mind being more detailed, what what did you work on like what what what has been an emphasis for you, Xavier? Uh, one one is getting stronger. I gained nine pounds in the offseason. Um, and then just the route running and understanding leverages and understanding coverages. I feel like with our offense, it’s more just understanding like where you’re at on the field and understanding space more than anything. And who to whom have you been speaking about that other than your coaches? Uh Trav Trav is a great guy for that. I mean, he’s probably the best tight end in space in NFL history. So, I mean, I have the key to the the system right there. Yeah, he’s the key. He He’s the king of footwork and noticing space and obviously being on the same page as Mahomes. So, he% Can you walk me through what what what those conversations sound like? You and Travis Kelce talking about this sort of thing, Xavier? Uh, I mean it you could probably see it throughout the end of my year last year just to understanding what what Pat likes to do. Me and Tra, we’ll run a we’ll run a play and he’ll just give me like a little tip just like, “Hey, on this you could use this release and do this and Pat will see it like this.” So, I just kind of like took that in my mental and just everything he said um towards the end of my last towards the end of my rookie year, I just took it into this year and worked on it off seasonason. What about Mahomes? What are your conversations ball talk like with him? Xavier Worthy. Um, I mean, we just kind of talk on the field, but he just if it’s a route that needs to be fixed or that he would like to ran a little different, he’ll just tell me like, “Oh, you need to just run it like this or if you see this, sprint it like this.” I mean, just it’s just common football talk. Okay. And then the sense of urgency that might have been around your team last week, taking on a Ravens team uh equally in one and two. Don’t want to go one and three. two and two can not only redeem the first quarter of a season but springboard things into a better rest of the regular season. What was it like around that facility last week before that game, Xavier? Oh man, just here I mean I feel like everybody just stayed levelheaded levelheaded and calm. Every nobody stresses out. I mean it’s football at the end of the day. You don’t treat no game bigger than the next. So I mean if if it’s a regular season game, if it’s a Super Bowl, it’s football at the end of the day. You grew up playing your whole life. So just go out there and have fun. Lay it loose. I mean, Coach Ree says it all the time. I’ll treat you to a cheeseburger after the game. So, what? Say, say that again, Xavier. What? Coach Ree says, “I’ll treat you to a cheeseburger after the game. Just show your personality.” So, I mean, that just shows like the the kind of the joy we have around here playing the game. Is that how you gain the nine pounds? No. Better better than just a cheeseburger is what you’re saying. We gain nine pounds of muscle is what you’re saying. Okay. Now, but he says that to you or to everybody? He says that to everybody like after like um you know um after meetings before the game day like coach Reed says I’ll treat you to a cheeseburger and show your personalities. Okay. And so how does that how does that calm things do you think? I mean it just it just shows like we have like a player’s coach. I I don’t hear a lot of coaches say like show your personalities and when he says show your personality really means it. Like the dancing we do like you see like the touchdown dances like that’s really like just us having fun. We do that in practice. So, I mean it just carries over. Does he when you do it in practice give you coaching tips on that or he just lets that happen? Savior. Nah, he he kind of getting into it now. He was doing a little dance in the meeting this morning. What? Say that again. What? What? You know TaQ TQ’s dance when he went like this? He did that this morning. Oh, he did it what? In a hallway with you in a hallway. Huh? In the hallway? No, he did it. He did it in a meeting. Okay. Well, that’s one way to keep things loose to say the least. Um, and is Rashi back in the building right now? Yeah, it’s good. It’s good to have Rashid back. I mean, just his just his poise and what he brings to the room. I just having him back. I mean, you could learn from him. He could help the younger guys and help us obviously what he sees on the field, too. Okay. So, Rashid’s back in the building. You’re back feeling you’re feeling yourself pretty much. We can say that right now. Yeah. Okay. Yes, sir. You’re back feeling yourself. Uh, Taquan Thornton caught a touchdown last week. Juju Smith Schustster is Juju Smith Schustster. Mahomes threw for four touchdowns. Um, Kelsey is in the building being the GOAT. Have we turned a corner here? Have the Chiefs turned a corner on offense, do you think, Xavier Worthy? Um, I feel like we just getting started. So, there’s no corner turned. You’re just beginning to get started. That’s the way you you’re terming it. Okay. Started. Started for where? What are we starting then? Um, I feel like there was no corner that needed to be turned. I feel like it’s just like we just needed to settle down and just get it going. It was never like what what needed to be fixed. It was just always just self errors. Okay. And what about your goals? Do you have them? Are they written down somewhere, Xavier? Um, my I had this goal. I had talked to my therapist and my goal was uh I feel like just writing down personal goals was kind of like something that like kind of just made me focus on just not my teammates and not being a team player. I feel like my main goal this year is just being the best team I could be and being the best person I could be. Interesting. So, you don’t you thought writing down something to I guess uh put on paper something that is a personal goal for you. Uh didn’t make you the best teammate and so you stopped doing it. You willingly are not doing that. Yes, sir. Do you want to put a little bit more onto that one? like what what why why does that work for you, do you think? Um I I feel like just if I’m going out there to be the best player I could be and being the best team that I could be, then everything that I that I want and that I need and that that’s going to come to me is going to happen. Okay. And that’s that Monday Night Football, what’s going to be going on in your mind as you’re in the tunnel there uh against a Jaguars team that would love to put a Chief’s pelt on their wall, Xavier? What’s going to do you think going to happen on Monday night for you? Man, I can’t wait for a Monday night matchup. It’s always fun just playing on a Monday night match up. It’s a blessing. Everybody can’t play on a Monday night football game. But the Jaguars unit, it’s a good unit. They have what the most turnovers in the league right now. So, they’re playing really good football and they’re at their high, so it’s going to be a good one. Did you play against uh I don’t tra Did you ever play against Travis Hunter? I don’t know if Texas and Colorado ever played against Travis. Okay. What what are you seeing on film out of him when he’s on TV? Yeah, Travis’s a really good player. I I mean, I watch Travis in college. He probably has one of the best ball skills I’ve ever seen. So, he’s a he’s a really good player. Okay. So, what do you what are the challenges that you that the Jaguars present? They take the ball away quite a bit and they’ve done that to every team that they faced multiple times this year, Xavier. Right. Um I feel like they’re just a good unit all around together. They play together, they play sound, and tips and overthrows, they they make sure they they catch them. So, you just got to be technically sound playing against them. Okay. And are you the fastest player on the field? 100%. You didn’t stutter. Yeah. No. Okay. You know, cuz I got Travis ETN uh on Friday’s show. Um you know, Travis Hunter um and he didn’t run at the combine. You did. You set a record. But you you unequivocally you are the fastest guy on the field. Yes, sir. Okay. Just wanted to repeat that. Uh before I let you go, what’s your favorite Mahomes story? Whether it’s in practice, in a huddle, throwing to you, maybe saying if you do this, I’m going to find you and then he does. Anything. You got a good Mahomes story before I uh I let you go on on your Thursday. Xavier, I I wouldn’t even say story. It’s just like it just shows like the greatness between him and Trav. It was a play like that we had. And Trav, they kind of he has a little bit of freedom. Mhm. So there’s this route where Tra kind of goes in and he comes back out and and Pat threw it before he even could turn around and all Trab did was stick his hands out and the ball hit him in the hands. So it just shows like the greatness between them two and that chemistry. Does that leave you wanting to have that relationship with Mahomes? Oh, 100%. If I could have that chemistry where I can stick my hands out and catch the ball, definitely. No, I’m just saying that that you know, obviously Mahomes is going nowhere. um you’re just in year two. Um and that you know you keep playing your cards right, you keep doing what you’re doing, you keep keeping your mentals right, you keep keeping your body right, that you would have an opportunity to one day to have that second sense connection to Mahomes is what I’m saying. Does that enter your your realm at any point in time, Xavier? I mean, definitely. I mean, I feel like with any player right now that’s in the league, um, I feel like if you got drafted within like kind of like the couple years, Pat for a couple years, I mean, Pat’s one of the greatest going on pace to be one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. So, just having that and having chemistry with him and playing with him, I mean, it’s it’s just a blessing. Well, Xavier, I really appreciate the time here. It was great seeing you for just a brief bit in Brazil. Um, and unfortunately seeing you for just a brief bit in a game that I was calling, but it’s great to see you back at it cuz I was concerned. I was concerned for your 2025 season. So to see you smiling and and balling out like you did leading the team in rushing and receiving last week and just your first game back. It’s great to see and I’m happy for you. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Appreciate it. Always good to see you, Xavier. Thanks for the time. Yes, sir. Appreciate you. That’s Xavier Worthy of the Kansas City Chiefs getting set to appear on ESPN and its family of networks on Monday Night Football to wrap up week five Chiefs and the Jaguars. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

On The Rich Eisen Show, Xavier Worthy joins to discuss his injury and return to the field with the Kansas City Chiefs.

0:00 Xavier Worthy joins the show
0:29 Worthy talks about his injury
1:47 How Worthy feels about being back on the field
2:15 Xavier Worthy and Travis Kelce’s relationship
2:50 Worthy’s future on the Chiefs
4:07 What Worthy has learned from Travis Kelce & Patrick Mahomes
4:50 The environment at the Chiefs
7:15 Have the Chiefs turned a corner?
8:05 Worthy’s goals
9:00 MNF: Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Kansas City Chiefs
10:30 Favorite Patrick Mahomes story

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