{"id":737356,"date":"2026-02-08T05:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/737356\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T05:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:24:16","slug":"nfl-great-chad-ochocinco-says-hell-work-with-panthers-wr-xavier-legette-in-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/737356\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL great Chad Ochocinco says he&#8217;ll work with Panthers WR Xavier Legette in offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 7, 2026, 7:55 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Xavier Legette may be getting some help from one of the biggest <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> fans on the planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Chad Ochocinco spoke with team beat reporter Sheena Quick from Super Bowl LX&#8217;s &#8220;Radio Row&#8221; on Friday. And when discussing the team&#8217;s wideouts, he offered up an encouraging outlook for the struggling Legette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;He&#8217;s comin&#8217; to see me in the offseason. He&#8217;ll be alright. I guarantee you, he gonna be alright,&#8221; Ochocinco told Quick. &#8220;He&#8217;s special. He just needs someone to unlock the specialty, that I can see from far away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Ochocinco was pretty special himself during his playing days. Before he became a full-fledged member of the Carolina faithful, he was three-time first-team All-Pro and six-time Pro Bowl pass catcher over a highly-productive 11-year NFL run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Legette, unfortunately, isn&#8217;t exactly trending in the same direction. The 2024 first-round pick experienced a dip in production from his underwhelming rookie campaign, amassing just 35 receptions for 363 yards and three touchdowns in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He also <a href=\"http:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2026\/01\/05\/panthers-snap-count-xavier-legette-jalen-coker-dave-canales\/88033961007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took a hit<\/a> in usage. Legette&#8217;s snap share decreased every week over the final four games, and ended with a career-low 31.4 percent mark in Week 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But maybe whatever Ochocinco is realizing from afar can help unlock Unosiete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThePanthersWire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 7, 2026, 7:55 p.m. ET Xavier Legette may be getting some help from one of the biggest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[95878,235,260,2567,7,6,236,97114,97115,95882,96059,105329,106330,95896,95888,95895,95906,95883,95894,97059,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-737356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-panthers","15":"tag-sstssportsnflpanthers","16":"tag-sstsnpanthers","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","19":"tag-tagchad-johnson","20":"tag-tagchad-ochocinco","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagnfl-hub","24":"tag-tagoverall-positive","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-tagtwitter","27":"tag-tagxavier-legette","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116033347605178360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737356","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=737356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}