Chiefs' Receiver Room Tipped To Be 'A-Tier' In 2025
The Kansas City Chiefs' offense in 2025 looms as a key watch with several players returning who hardly featured last year.
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Rashee Rice and Marquise Brown are the two names we are eager to see mix in with Xavier Worthy, Juju Smith-Schuster, and Travis Kelce.
Some aren't sold on the Chiefs in 2025, with the offense from last year, which struggled at times, still fresh in the mind ... however, others are surprisingly a little more bullish.
For CBS Sports' Kyle Long, in a chat with Mike Renner on NFL on CBS, the pair ranked all pass-catching groups and put them into tiers.
The Chiefs' weapons landed in the B tier for Long.
"Rashee Rice was playing like a true number one before he got hurt," Long said on NFL on CBS. "Hollywood Brown obviously has some traits that people love to see at the receiver position. Xavier Worthy, if he can just slow down a little bit, so many of those explosive plays, he was just stepping out of bounds last year. Get him to figure out some spatial awareness, and you're looking at maybe an A-tier receiving group."
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Kansas City Chiefs wide receivers Xavier Worthy and Marquise "Hollywood" BrownCharles LeClaire-Imagn Images
If Rice and Brown can stay healthy, with the expected improvement from Worthy and Kelce, Patrick Mahomes is going to have quite the quartet to do damage with.
We know how damaging Rice can be, plus Brown and his ability to get downfield, Worthy and his blistering speed, which we saw used on short and deep routes in 2024, and we round it off with Kelce, who is coming off a poor 2024 season and looking to rebound.
Those four, if they can stay on the field and build chemistry, this Chiefs offense, which many are sleeping on, might just surprise some, and when you have Mahomes orchestrating it, good things usually happen.
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 5, 2025, where it first appeared.
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