KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Huge receiver Marquise Brown, one of many Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ largest offseason additions, won’t play in Thursday evening’s season opener towards the Baltimore Ravens, coach Andy Reid mentioned.
“Hollywood will not be again this week and we’ll simply see the way it goes [from there],” Reid mentioned. “However the child’s superb. I imply, his progress has been unbelievable, however I would not predict him being there this week.”
Brown dislocated a shoulder on the Chiefs’ first offensive play of the preseason.
The Chiefs deliberate to not have Brown for the sport earlier within the week after they stored seven broad receivers on their lively roster. The listing consists of Xavier Worthy, the Chiefs’ 2024 first-round draft choose, Rashee Rice, their main broad receiver final season, and JuJu Smith-Schuster, who signed with the Chiefs this week.
Reid mentioned he deliberate to play the opposite six receivers towards the Ravens. He mentioned quarterback Patrick Mahomes has labored sufficient with all of them, together with Smith-Schuster.
Smith-Schuster was the Chiefs’ main broad receiver in 2022. He performed final season with the New England Patriots and was launched throughout coaching camp.
“He appears to be like nice proper now and he jumped proper again in and had some good practices for us,” Reid mentioned. “So it is only a matter of him getting banged round a little bit bit. … He’ll get all that because the season goes, but it surely’s good to have him again within the combine there, for certain.”
Reid mentioned that whereas Worthy has not but performed in a regular-season NFL recreation, he has carried out properly in apply.
“One that’s unknown is Worthy having not performed in an NFL recreation, an actual NFL recreation apart from a preseason recreation with him and apply,” Reid mentioned. “However what I’ve seen is that they have a fairly good factor going and we’ll simply see the way it goes when issues are flying right here quick and livid.
“He spent quite a lot of time with Pat and receivers, the veteran guys, simply determining what Pat’s anticipating or the place he must be or what the coaches are asking him to do. He is not afraid to ask after which he is been keen to attempt every thing. So whether or not it is an inside route, a kind of intermediate routes with lengthy routes, he is been very keen to get in there and blend it up. So I like what I’ve seen. Identical to with any rookie that is coming into this factor, you need to see how they do within the video games, however you’d suppose [Worthy would] in all probability do [well].”
