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Xavier Worthy injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Kansas City Chiefs · Wide receiver · status this week: not on the week 7 injury report (week 7 report, captured Wed 21 Oct, 6:15am)

Checked Oct 21, 2026.

Over his 2 full seasons on record, Xavier Worthy played 31 of 34 regular-season games (91%), and 5 of 5 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Kansas City Chiefs room absorbs +4.48 receptions, and Justin Watson takes the largest single share at +0.64. The work stays overwhelmingly inside the wide receiver room.

Where the work goes

Change in projected receptions for every other player in the offense. The bars are small on purpose — a vacated role is shared out, and any tool showing one replacement absorbing a whole target load is telling you something the data does not support.

Receptions gained if Xavier Worthy sitsJustin Watson+0.6WR 2% snapsCyrus Allen+0.6WR 7% snapsTyquan Thornton+0.6WR 56% snapsRashee Rice+0.5WR 55% snapsNikko Remigio+0.5WR 3% snapsAndrew Armstrong+0.4WR 69% snapsJalen Royals+0.3WR 43% snapsTravis Kelce+0.1TE 78% snapsNoah Gray+0.1TE 61% snapsJake Briningstool+0.1TE 13% snapsKenneth Walker III+0.1RB 76% snapsEmmett Johnson+0.1RB 26% snapsBrashard Smith+0.1RB 6% snapsBen VanSumeren+0.1RB 2% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Xavier Worthy WR · 82% snaps3.80—OUT
Rashee Rice WR · 55% snaps4.505.01+0.51
Travis Kelce TE · 78% snaps3.803.95+0.15
Kenneth Walker III RB · 76% snaps2.402.53+0.13
Tyquan Thornton WR · 56% snaps2.202.76+0.56
Noah Gray TE · 61% snaps2.102.25+0.15
Andrew Armstrong WR · 69% snaps1.702.13+0.43
Jalen Royals WR · 43% snaps1.601.88+0.28
Emmett Johnson RB · 26% snaps1.101.23+0.13
Brashard Smith RB · 6% snaps0.800.93+0.13
Justin Watson WR · 2% snaps0.701.34+0.64
Cyrus Allen WR · 7% snaps0.601.24+0.64
Ben VanSumeren RB · 2% snaps0.300.43+0.13
Jake Briningstool TE · 13% snaps0.100.25+0.15
Nikko Remigio WR · 3% snaps0.100.55+0.45

Injury history

Over his 2 full seasons on record, Xavier Worthy played 31 of 34 regular-season games (91%), and 5 of 5 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026KC5 of 5000—
2025KC14 of 17302Shoulder, Ankle, Illness
2024KC17 of 17000—

Regular season only. Games played counts games with at least one offensive snap; designations are from the official weekly injury report, which does not list players on injured reserve, so a long absence shows as missed games rather than as weeks listed out.

What the data says happens

Measured across every regular-season game from 2018 onward, each beneficiary compared against his own trailing four-game form and net of what the same players do in weeks the room’s number one actually plays.

When a team’s number-one wide receiver does not play, what each position group gains:

RoomReceptions gainednt
Receivers+0.5841,53711.16
Tight ends+0.1751,0803.33
Backs+0.1131,0112.00

The room total is predictable. Which player takes it is not. Every candidate predictor of who gains — pecking order, snap share, route depth, trailing targets — correlates at roughly r = 0.02. In any single week one player usually takes about 60% of what was vacated; it is simply not predictably the same one.

Xavier Worthy’s full stats and usageSnap share, target share, game log and this week’s projection

Cascade effects 2018–2026, paired within player, net of control · projections as-of-week with no lookahead · 2026 week 7