{"id":366211,"date":"2025-09-14T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/366211\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:52:10","slug":"why-tyquan-thorton-could-be-patrick-mahomes-new-favorite-target-after-xavier-worthy-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/366211\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Tyquan Thorton could be Patrick Mahomes’ new favorite target after Xavier Worthy injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Tyquan Thorton could be Patrick Mahomes’ new favorite target after Xavier Worthy injury<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

The Chiefs’ wide receiver room is open for the taking. After Xavier Worthy’s shoulder injury in week one and with Rashee Rice serving a six-game suspension, Patrick Mahomes’ list of targets is thinning.<\/p>\n

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Enter Tyquan Thorton. The fourth-year wideout was a deep threat for the Chiefs against the Chargers, ending with two receptions for 41 yards on four targets.<\/p>\n

It’s not a gaudy line but the Chiefs didn’t see much room deep down the field, taking what the Chargers gave them with short passes to Hollywood Brown.<\/p>\n

Before the game started, head coach Andy Reid said Brown and Thorton would be\u00a0“filling the void” <\/a>in Rice’s absence. That only became more necessary once Worthy was ruled out for the game.<\/p>\n

With Rice suspended until week seven and Worthy out until further notice, the former second-round pick could see a lot of deep targets.<\/p>\n

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How did the Chiefs get Tyquan Thorton?<\/p>\n

Thorton was drafted out of Baylor by the New England Patriots in 2022. He was selected 50th overall after registering a 4.28 in the 40-yard dash at the NFL combine.<\/p>\n

He had two stints on the injury reserve before being waived in November of 2024. A big critique on Thorton was his unreliable hands.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs added him to their practice squad three days after he was waived. They then signed him to a future\/reserve contract on February 11, 2025 and then made the 53-man roster entering this season.<\/p>\n

He was originally expected to be a depth piece and now has a big role in Andy Reid’s offense.<\/p>\n

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It’s Thorton’s chance to redeem himself and Kansas City’s chance to find a diamond in the rough.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0Chiefs’ Xavier Worthy gets painful injury update for Week 2 Super Bowl rematch vs. Eagles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Tyquan Thorton could be Patrick Mahomes’ new favorite target after Xavier Worthy injury originally appeared on The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[501,6089,346,7,6670,118,110,2438,2437,249,6,499,4000,5027,1866,24175,64890,1080],"class_list":{"0":"post-366211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-andy-reid","9":"tag-bailey-zappe","10":"tag-chiefs","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-hollywood-brown","13":"tag-kansas-city","14":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","15":"tag-kansascity","16":"tag-kansascitychiefs","17":"tag-new-england-patriots","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-patrick-mahomes","20":"tag-rashee-rice","21":"tag-shoulder-injury","22":"tag-the-chiefs","23":"tag-tyquan-thornton","24":"tag-tyquan-thorton","25":"tag-xavier-worthy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366211","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=366211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}