While wide receiver has been among the Kansas City Chiefs’ significant needs in recent seasons, the emergence of Rashee Rice and Xavier Worthy as young building blocks has reduced this need for 2025.
But in the coming NFL Draft, the Chiefs should be looking for skillsets that fill the gaps within their wide receiver group. Rice and Worthy are slot-oriented players who can use underneath targets to create explosive plays; they’re primarily going to win on horizontal routes instead of downfield routes.
To complement them, the team needs an outside receiver who can stretch the field vertically — and win — on the sidelines.