Patrick Mahomes impressed by WRs Hollywood Brown, Xavier Worthy at OTAs

The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs added large receivers Hollywood Brown and Xavier Worthy to the combo this offseason, giving celebrity quarterback and three-time Tremendous Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes extra weapons within the passing sport.

Mahomes sees Brown, a five-year NFL veteran, as including a brand new dimension to Kansas Metropolis’s offense.

“I believe y’all noticed it right this moment [at OTAs] — I am giving him possibilities down area, and he is making the performs occur,” Mahomes mentioned Wednesday. “The extra performs he makes, the extra we’ll proceed to offer him these possibilities. [He’s] addition to our offense.”

The Chiefs signed Brown, who was restricted by accidents over the previous two seasons with the Arizona Cardinals, to a one-year deal in March. When wholesome, the 5-foot-9 receiver, who ran a 4.27 40-yard sprint on the 2019 NFL Scouting Mix, has confirmed to be a dynamite downfield weapon. A former first-rounder out of Oklahoma, Brown’s greatest season got here in 2021 — his final with the Baltimore Ravens — when he reeled in 91 receptions for 1,008 yards and 6 touchdowns.

However, Worthy suffered a hamstring damage at OTAs, however his preparation caught Mahomes’ eye nonetheless.

“You’ll be able to inform how clever he’s,” Mahomes mentioned. “He is asking the proper questions. Earlier than he had the hamstring factor, he was getting … the work in. Generally it is robust with these guys coming off mix coaching — they need to show what they’ll do from Day 1 — and little accidents like that occur. We’ll be precautionary proper now; he most likely might get on the market if we actually wished him to.

“You’ll be able to see he is sitting proper beside the blokes asking all the proper questions, and at any time when he does get again on the sector, I am excited to get to work with him.”

Kansas Metropolis traded as much as choose Worthy with the twenty eighth total choose within the 2024 NFL Draft. Worthy fashioned a dynamic receiver duo with Adonai Mitchell, who was chosen by the Indianapolis Colts with the No. 52 choose, at Texas final season. Worthy totaled 75 receptions for 1,014 yards and 5 touchdowns. He additionally had 12 touchdowns in his freshman season.

Whereas the Chiefs went on to win the Tremendous Bowl with no first-round bye, their offense slumped for stretches final season.

They completed the common season averaging 351.3 whole yards (ninth within the NFL) and 21.8 factors (fifteenth) per sport. The aforementioned league ranks had been Kansas Metropolis’s lowest marks since Mahomes turned its full-time quarterback in 2018. What’s extra, the Chiefs did not rating greater than 26 factors in any playoff sport final season en path to Tremendous Bowl LVIII.

Brown and Worthy be a part of a receivers room that features Rashee Rice, Kansas Metropolis’s chief amongst wideouts in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns final season, Justin Watson and Skyy Moore, amongst others. The incoming recruits might loom massive, as Rice faces a possible suspension from the league for his function in a high-speed automotive accident that passed off in March.

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