{"id":345068,"date":"2025-09-06T01:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/345068\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:12:10","slug":"jalen-royals-injury-update-latest-news-on-chiefs-rookies-recovery-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/345068\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Royals injury update: Latest news on Chiefs rookie&#8217;s recovery timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/news\/jalen-royals-injury-update-latest-news-chiefs-recovery-timeline\/f9a2f99dc9bbcfa8e784def4?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jalen Royals injury update: Latest news on Chiefs rookie&#039;s recovery timeline;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jalen Royals injury update: Latest news on Chiefs rookie&#8217;s recovery timeline<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs are even more shorthanded at wide receiver after rookie Jalen Royals was ruled out for the Week 1 game against the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Royals was drafted in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL draft and managed to have a standout training camp before having a quiet preseason. With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/news\/rashee-rice-suspension-explained-reason-length-chiefs-ban\/efad06060eb7c7cc48f1bfca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:suspension of receiver Rashee Rice;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">suspension of receiver Rashee Rice<\/a>, Royals was expected to have a role early on.<\/p>\n<p>However, that was dashed for the season-opener after Royals was ruled out earlier in the week due to injury. Here&#8217;s what we know about the rookie&#8217;s status moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Royals injury update<\/p>\n<p>Royals was listed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chiefs.com\/team\/injury-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chiefs&#039; injury report;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chiefs&#8217; injury report<\/a> with a knee issue. He did not practice at all this week before he was ruled out ahead of Friday. It remains unclear how long he&#8217;ll be out.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With Royals out, the Chiefs are going to lean more on veteran JuJu Smith-Schuster, along with starters Xavier Worthy and Marquise Brown.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NFL NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Royals injury update: Latest news on Chiefs rookie&#8217;s recovery timeline originally appeared on The Sporting News The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,17416,1177,760,110,262,5410,6,15,4000,1080],"class_list":{"0":"post-345068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-injury-report","10":"tag-jalen-royals","11":"tag-juju-smith-schuster","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","13":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","14":"tag-marquise-brown","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-draft","17":"tag-rashee-rice","18":"tag-xavier-worthy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115154697882325668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}