Coming for the Kingdom: How impactful can Xavier Worthy and other rookies be in Andy Reid’s complex offense?

The Kansas City Chiefs are trying to do something no team has ever done: win three straight Super Bowls.

The rest of the NFL is trying to stop them.

Here are the key elements of the Chiefs’ success, which will again play a role in their quest — and could provide clues to how other teams can unseat the kings of the NFL.

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The Kansas City Chiefs trying to win an unprecedented three straight Super Bowl titles is one of the stories of the year. Everyone knows they have the quarterback and coaching to do it, but now they’ll be relying on some new faces to help them achieve that goal as well.

Andy Reid’s playbook is one of the most complex in the entire NFL, and notoriously difficult for rookies to pick up, especially wide receivers. But general manager Brett Veach has drafted well the past few years, and receiver Rashee Rice played an integral role as a rookie last season in the Chiefs’ Super Bowl championship.

Here are four offensive rookies to keep an eye on as the Chiefs get ready to defend their throne for the second straight season.

The Chiefs’ 2024 first-round pick is going to play a huge role in helping them try to get back to the Super Bowl and pull off the sacred three-peat. Xavier Worthy has concerns surrounding his frame and how being 165 pounds will translate to the NFL, but the speed that he has can’t be replicated by any other Chiefs wide receiver, and the deep threat he presents showed up in training camp and preseason. If he can just perform like an average NFL wide receiver, that would be a huge boost to a Chiefs offense that had to slog through actively hazardous wide receiver play last season.

Worthy, along with offseason addition Hollywood Brown and the returning Rice, is hoping to be the “real” receiver that the Chiefs were missing last year. With Patrick Mahomes onboard, no one is…

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Publish date : 2024-09-02 18:29:04

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