{"id":357251,"date":"2025-09-10T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/357251\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:20:18","slug":"i-felt-like-garbage-travis-kelce-takes-full-blame-after-brutal-collision-knocked-kansas-city-chiefs-wr-xavier-worthy-out-in-brazil-game-nfl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/357251\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I felt like garbage’: Travis Kelce takes full blame after brutal collision knocked Kansas City Chiefs WR Xavier Worthy out in Brazil game | NFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'IChiefs WR Xavier Worthy was injured after early hit from Travis Kelce. The Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 season opener against the Los Angeles Chargers in Brazil started with promise \u2013 and quickly unraveled. On just the third offensive play of the game, tight end Travis Kelce<\/a> accidentally collided with rookie wide receiver Xavier Worthy, resulting in a shoulder injury that knocked Worthy out of the game for the night. Kansas City went on to lose and the early mishap left a lasting impression on both the scoreboard and the sideline.<\/p>\n

Travis Kelce says he\u2019s to blame for the injury that knocked Xavier Worthy out of the game<\/p>\n

Speaking on the New Heights podcast, Kelce didn\u2019t sugarcoat the impact of it. He took responsibility for the play that sidelined one of the team\u2019s key offensive weapons. \u201cI know it\u2019s kind of sounding like a broken record from last year\u2019s Super Bowl, but that\u2019s on on us as leaders, and I\u2019ll take the most accountability myself,\u201d Kelce said of the loss to the Chargers. \u201cI wasn\u2019t ready that first drive, I ran into one of my guys and offed him out of the game, I literally took one of my players out. That\u2019s one of the most frustrating parts, and it\u2019s hard to get your juices back going knowing you just hurt a guy.He went on to add, \u201cIt\u2019s a frustrating, frustrating way to start off the season. It was a frustrating way to start off the game, but you could take some good from that second half. But at the end of the day, man, we\u2019ve just got to be able to win up front, be accountable on the back end and and be able to start fast and finish stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miscommunication and poor spacing led to the costly moment: Travis Kelce<\/p>\n

When asked by his brother Jason Kelce whether the collision was the result of someone being out of position, Travis clarified that the mistake was his own. \u201cI\u2019m supposed to be running my route at depth for Worthy,\u201d Kelce explained. \u201cSo it\u2019s frustrating for me. I was trying to kind of set up my guy to be able to get in a position and it all just happened pretty quick. And I\u2019ve just got to be better, man. I\u2019m 13 years in the league. There\u2019s no excuse for me running into my own guys like that and being able to play fast and help him out.\u201cWorthy had his guy beat, and we\u2019re out the gate, and that game starts completely different, right? Instead, I\u2019m not sure where he is exactly in terms of health wise, but I\u2019m hoping that we get him back as fast as possible, because he means so much to this team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Xavier Worthy\u2019s speed and role in the Chiefs offense made the loss even more damaging<\/p>\n

Kelce acknowledged just how critical Worthy was to the Chiefs\u2019 offensive game plan, calling him one of their best weapons. \u201cThe biggest thing is that he\u2019s one of our best players,\u201d Kelce said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to take that step into being one of the best wide receivers in the National Football League. And I run into him, and all of a sudden one of the biggest pieces of the game plan is out of the game. One of the fastest guys in the league, and speed kills in this league is … now they don\u2019t have to worry about that. Thankfully enough, we had (Tyquan) Thornton and Hollywood Brown to be able to step up in those situations. I felt like (garbage),\u201d he said. \u201cI could barely even … play the rest of that first half, man, but we geared it up once I found out that that he was in better spirits than I imagined at halftime. So just tried to go back out there and win that thing for him.\u201dAlso read: Chiefs Style Lounge 2025 brings high-fashion runway glam to Arrowhead Stadium for fans <\/a>Travis Kelce also added that sathe injury hit him hard and threw off his rhythm the rest of the game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chiefs WR Xavier Worthy was injured after early hit from Travis Kelce. The Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 season opener…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,2438,2437,262,6,35408,500,1080],"class_list":{"0":"post-357251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascitychiefs","14":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-wide-receivers","17":"tag-travis-kelce","18":"tag-xavier-worthy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115180917631379848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357251","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=357251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}