The Kansas City Chiefs didn’t want to just rebuild at wide receiver. They wanted to rebuild with speed.
That effort got a big boost in the first round of the draft when the Chiefs traded up four spots with the Buffalo Bills to select Texas wide receiver Xavier Worthy, who set a scouting combine record when he ran a 4.21 in the 40-yard dash.
This comes after the Chiefs signed veteran wideout Marquise “Hollywood” Brown, who ran a 4.27 40 when he came out for the draft in 2019. General manager Brett Veach said the addition of the two players will “make life easier” for the Chiefs’ top two returning receivers, Travis Kelce and Rashee Rice.
Rice’s availability for a full season is uncertain after his involvement last month in a high-speed, six-vehicle crash in Dallas. But the Chiefs indicated they were determined to add at wide receiver regardless after last season’s group at the position underachieved, outside of Rice.
The selection of Worthy is reminiscent of the Chiefs’ 2016 drafting of Tyreek Hill, who ran a 4.24 40 that year at his pro day. But coach Andy Reid said Worthy reminds him more of another one of his former wide receivers, DeSean Jackson, who played for him with the Philadelphia Eagles.
“They’re different and he’ll put his own mark on things once he gets a feel for it,” Reid said of comparisons between Worthy and Hill. “That wasn’t the comparison as much as it was him being a good football player.”
The Chiefs have struggled to connect on many passes downfield since trading Hill to the Miami Dolphins two years ago.
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