{"id":31636,"date":"2025-08-31T22:44:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T22:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=31636"},"modified":"2025-08-31T22:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T22:45:57","slug":"breaking-news-chiefs-get-troubling-update-on-rookie-wr-heading-into-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=31636","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS : \u26a0\ufe0f Chiefs Receive Alarming Update on Rookie WR Just Before Week 1 \u2014 What Does It Mean? \ud83e\udd14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2229316045-e1756676337314.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2229316045-e1756676337314.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2229316045-e1756676337314.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2229316045-e1756676337314.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Chiefs Get Troubling Update on Rookie WR Heading Into Week 1\" width=\"780\" height=\"437\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Only one player wasn\u2019t able to practice for the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, ahead of the team traveling to S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, for a matchup with division rival the Los Angeles Chargers on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie wide receiver Jalen Royals was the only player on the active roster that wasn\u2019t able to give it a go on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as the injuries go today for practice, really, Royals is the only one that they won\u2019t practice,\u201d head coach Andy Reid said before practice. \u201cEverybody else will go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Chiefs who have been managing injuries participated in practice on Sunday, including linebacker Drue Tranquill (back), Jack Cochrane (knee), and defensive tackle Omarr Norman-Lott (ankle).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Royals, a Utah State Standout, Has a Knee Injury<\/h2>\n<p>Royals has been managing knee tendonitis since the team\u2019s second preseason game against the Seattle Seahawks. The team initially expected him to be ready for Week 1, but Sunday\u2019s update indicates the rookie might need to wait another week before making his NFL debut.<\/p>\n<p>NFL league rules require teams playing on Friday to release injury reports on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, so no official report will be issued on Sunday. With the Chiefs traveling to Brazil on Wednesday and holding a walk-through on Thursday, only projected injury updates will be available on those days.<\/p>\n<p>Royals was a fourth-round pick by the Chiefs out of Utah State. He made first-team All-Mountain West in 2023 and second-team last season. Last season at Utah State, Royals recorded 55 receptions for 834 yards and six touchdowns before a season-ending injury. Over his three-year career at Utah State, he totaled 126 catches for 1,914 yards and 21 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5476292\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg 4947w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?resize=782,521 782w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?resize=780,520 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?resize=425,283 425w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?resize=254,169 254w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?resize=225,150 225w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2176104827.jpg?resize=242,161 242w\" alt=\"Chiefs Get Troubling Update on Rookie WR Heading Into Week 1\" width=\"782\" height=\"521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5476292\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5476292\">GettyBOISE, ID \u2013 OCTOBER 5: Wide receiver Jalen Royals #1 of the Utah State Aggies catches a long touchdown pass during the first half against the Utah State Aggies at Albertsons Stadium on October 5, 2024 in Boise, Idaho. (Photo by Loren Orr\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The Chiefs Have an Abnormal Amount of Receivers<\/h2>\n<p>If Royals is out for Friday\u2019s game, he\u2019ll be one of two Chiefs receivers to sit as Rashee Rice is suspended the first six games of the season for violating the NFL\u2019s personal conduct policy.\u00a0Rice, 25, was involved in a multi-vehicle crash in Dallas in March 2024 and fled the scene of the six-car pileup. He later accepted a plea deal that includes five years of probation and 30 days in jail, according to the Kansas City Star.<\/p>\n<p>But the Chiefs have a lot of depth at the position after keeping eight receivers on the 53-man roster. The others are Xavier Worthy, Hollywood Brown, JuJu Smith-Schuster, Tyquan Thornton, Nikko Remigio and Jason Brownlee.<\/p>\n<p>This will mark Brown\u2019s first game of the season after a foot-ankle injury sidelined him for all three preseason games. Reid said he\u2019s confident Brown will be ready to play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, he\u2019s a veteran guy,\u201d Reid said. \u201cIf he\u2019s younger, I\u2019d probably say he\u2019d be a little bit more worried about it, but he\u2019s a veteran guy that kind of knows how to go about it. I think he should be fine. And we\u2019ve got guys that can rotate in, too. We mix and match kind of as we go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid announced that Jalen Royals wouldn&#8217;t participate in Sunday&#8217;s practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kansas-city-chiefs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS : \u26a0\ufe0f Chiefs Receive Alarming Update on Rookie WR Just Before Week 1 \u2014 What Does It Mean? \ud83e\udd14 - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=31636\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING NEWS : \u26a0\ufe0f Chiefs Receive Alarming Update on Rookie WR Just Before Week 1 \u2014 What Does It Mean? 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