{"id":37573,"date":"2025-11-13T22:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37573"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:57:08","slug":"breaking-news-chiefs-get-xavier-worthy-injury-scare-ahead-of-week-11-vs-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37573","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS : \ud83d\udea8 Chiefs Hit With Xavier Worthy Injury Scare Ahead of Week 11 Showdown vs. Broncos \u2014 What Really Happened? \ud83d\udc40"},"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\/11\/GettyImages-2241018730-e1763071162553.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2241018730-e1763071162553.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2241018730-e1763071162553.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2241018730-e1763071162553.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Chiefs Get Xavier Worthy Injury Scare Ahead of Week 11 vs. Broncos\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs\u2018 preparation for the Denver Broncos rolls on, but the club has some injuries to monitor as the week continues.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s injury report saw not just running back Isiah Pacheco make his expected appearance, but another offensive player was added to the list.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Chiefs WR Xavier Worthy Limited in Thursday\u2019s Practice With Ankle Injury<\/h2>\n<p>Per the team, wide receiver Xavier Worthy was limited in practice on Thursday afternoon. He was joined by defensive end George Karlaftis, who\u2019s nursing a thumb ailment. Karlaftis was limited on Wednesday as well.<\/p>\n<p>Worthy didn\u2019t carry any injury status on Wednesday\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t confirmed that this is a new issue for Worthy, which leads room for interpretation. The second-year wideout wasn\u2019t on Week 9\u2019s pre-bye injury report, but he\u2019d spent time prior to that with shoulder and ankle designations. The speedy receiver originally got hurt in Week 1\u2019s loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. A collision with tight end Travis Kelce left him with a dislocated shoulder, causing him to miss Weeks 2 and 3 as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Worthy then developed the seemingly minor ankle problem. Nonetheless, he\u2019s appeared a bit hindered in games at times. The 2024 first-round pick has managed to play through any discomfort, logging 295 snaps in his last six games. That\u2019s good for 71.8% of available reps, peaking at the 84.1% and 83.3% marks in Kansas City\u2019s two most recent outings.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Andy Reid didn\u2019t mention a Worthy injury when he spoke to the media on Wednesday. He\u2019ll address media again on Friday afternoon. With Sunday marking kickoff of Chiefs-Broncos, the team will soon reveal whether the ankle ailment is anything more than a blip on the radar.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Kansas City Exercising Balancing Act With Talented Receivers<\/h2>\n<p>Worthy being available helps the Chiefs, giving them a good problem to solve. He, Rashee Rice, JuJu Smith-Schuster, Marquise \u201cHollywood\u201d Brown and Tyquan Thornton form quite the group of wideouts.<\/p>\n<p>Entering Week 11, Kelce and Brown are tied for the team lead with 53 targets. Among wide receivers, Brown\u2019s 389 yards and 4 touchdowns pace the field. Thornton (311 yards and 3 touchdowns), Smith-Schuster (291 yards and a touchdown) and Worthy (256 yards and a touchdown) are playing great complementary roles. Since returning from suspension in Week 7, Rice already has 215 yards and 3 times reaching pay dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Reid isn\u2019t worried about having to feed so many mouths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell we try to get them all involved the best we can,\u201d Reid said. \u201cSome games, you\u2019re just going to have that where they\u2019re taking somebody away, and that\u2019s how it goes. That\u2019s how the coverage goes, that\u2019s how the play call goes, so on. We\u2019re not down on Xavier Worthy, we know he\u2019s a good player, and we like to get the ball in the good players\u2019 hands the best way we can. It just hasn\u2019t rolled that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Offensive coordinator Matt Nagy echoed a similar sentiment on Thursday, praising the \u201cselflessness\u201d of the wideout collective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as we can,\u201d Nagy said. \u201cThere are times you kind of look back after a game and you look at some of the playing time \u2014 where guys are, and where are they at schematically? Like Coach [Reid] said Week 1, there\u2019s only one football. I think when our guys understand that, which they do, they do such a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Chiefs will hope Worthy can play in a pivotal Week 11 bout and stay healthy thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Kansas City Chiefs continue preparing for Week 11&#8217;s game against the Denver Broncos, WR Xavier Worthy was added to the injury report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37573","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 : \ud83d\udea8 Chiefs Hit With Xavier Worthy Injury Scare Ahead of Week 11 Showdown vs. Broncos \u2014 What Really Happened? 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