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Chiefs’ Xavier Worthy Reveals ‘Stepping Stone’ Key To Year 2 Form<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The life of an NFL rookie isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, and for Kansas City Chiefs receiver Xavier Worthy, his first season was a classic tale of two halves.<\/p>\n

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Still learning the playbook and how Patrick Mahomes likes to do things, Worthy only posted yards totals of 40+ just twice in his first nine games. However, the Week 10 loss to the Buffalo Bills marked a turning point, as a string of performances finally saw things click for Worthy.<\/p>\n

He posted seven straight games of 40+ yards before continuing that in the playoffs with 287 yards and three touchdowns in three games (157 yards in the Super Bowl loss).<\/p>\n

Worthy started slow, but finished in blazing hot form, and it’s something he wants to continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe end of last year was kind of like a stepping stone for me,” Worthy said<\/a>. “Just learning and getting a better feel for what Pat likes, and I started feeling like that got better at the end of the year, so just continue that and use that momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy (1).Denny Medley-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Worthy’s regular season stat line of 58 receptions, 638 yards, and six touchdowns is a good return, and now, as he enters Year 2, he’ll get more help from the returning Rashee Rice<\/a> and what Kansas City hopes is a better version of Marquise Brown.<\/p>\n

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Speed is still Xavier’s one-wood, and defenses have to stop the long bombs downfield, but he showed he is more than just a speed threat, with his ability to be used on quick slants and even jet sweeps to good effect.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs will be looking to bounce back from their horror Super Bowl loss, and Worthy could be the one who steps up and ignites his team’s fire.<\/p>\n

With his late-season form surge being a stepping stone to greater things in 2025.<\/p>\n

Related: Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes Reveals 2025 ‘Motivation’<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Coach Andy Reid Scouts Chiefs Rookies to Start OTAs Work<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 2, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chiefs’ Xavier Worthy Reveals ‘Stepping Stone’ Key To Year 2 Form originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[53,346,7,118,110,2438,2437,5410,6,499,4000,25368,1080],"class_list":{"0":"post-97261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","13":"tag-kansascity","14":"tag-kansascitychiefs","15":"tag-marquise-brown","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-patrick-mahomes","18":"tag-rashee-rice","19":"tag-sunshine-and-rainbows","20":"tag-xavier-worthy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114611851665903500","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97261","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=97261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}