Worthy is still Questionable, and Week 1 is getting closer

Xavier Worthy remains listed as Questionable as of August 15, the camp injury still unresolved with the regular season approaching. That's a problem worth noting plainly: Worthy was Kansas City's most dynamic receiver last season, catching 42 passes for 532 yards in 14 games, and he's the kind of threat that stresses a defense horizontally in ways Travis Kelce and Hollywood Brown simply don't.

The timing compounds everything. Mahomes is coming off a torn ACL and LCL, hasn't played in a game since December, and Andy Reid has already indicated he probably won't get preseason reps. The whole argument for skipping the preseason rests on Mahomes having enough familiarity with his weapons to function from snap one. Worthy being limited or absent during camp chips away at that logic quietly.

What's left at receiver if Worthy misses time? Rashee Rice is back and cleared, but his chemistry with Mahomes after the layoff is genuinely unknown. Tyquan Thornton is active. The Steelers just signed a former Chiefs wideout, which doesn't help the depth picture here. Deebo Samuel was brought in during the offseason to add to the room, but this group needs Worthy healthy and practicing, not just eventually available.

Nothing here is catastrophic yet. Questionable isn't out. But the Chiefs' offseason has been one thing stacking on another — the knee, the camp injuries, the linebacker room I wrote about last week — and Worthy's status is the latest item on a list that keeps growing.