{"id":1987576,"date":"2025-08-29T22:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1987576"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:58:20","slug":"jalen-royals-unlikely-to-play-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jalen-royals-unlikely-to-play-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Royals Unlikely To Play Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Chiefs HC Andy Reid believes it will be a challenge for rookie WR Jalen Royals to play Week 1, according to Jesse Newell of The Athletic.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>What They&#8217;re Saying<\/h2>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jessenewell\/status\/1961473907388543261\" target=\"_blank\">Newell<\/a><b>: <\/b>\u201cChiefs coach Andy Reid says it doesn\u2019t look like WR Jalen Royals (knee) will be able to make it back for Week 1 vs. the Chargers.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>2025 Fantasy Football Impact<\/h2>\n<p>With WRs Rashee Rice and Marquise Brown missing time, Royals saw notable reps with QB Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City&#8217;s first-team offense this summer. However, it appears he is a long shot to play against the Chargers on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Between Royals\u2019 absence and Rice\u2019s six-game suspension locked into the first six weeks of the season, the Chiefs wide receiver room will be short-handed. Xavier Worthy should operate as the top target and if his usage mirrors the end of last year, he\u2019s poised for a strong start. From Weeks 7 on (including the playoffs), Worthy averaged seven targets per game and commanded a target share north of 26%.<\/p>\n<p>Worthy should be viewed as a high-upside WR2 for the first six weeks of the season. And for Week 1, the speedy sophomore checks in as the WR14 in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.draftsharks.com\/weekly-rankings\/1\/wr\/ppr\" target=\"_blank\">rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2\/>\n<h2\/>\n<h2\/>\n<h2\/>\n<h2\/>\n<h2\/>\n<h2\/>\n<h2\/>\n<h2\/>\n<h2\/>\n            <\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.draftsharks.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiefs HC Andy Reid believes it will be a challenge for rookie WR Jalen Royals to play Week 1, according to Jesse Newell of The Athletic. What They&#8217;re Saying Newell: \u201cChiefs coach Andy Reid says it doesn\u2019t look like WR Jalen Royals (knee) will be able to make it back for Week 1 vs. the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1987577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[358246,358244,350874,27155,27158,358245,310198],"class_list":["post-1987576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-358246","tag-jalen","tag-play","tag-royals","tag-to","tag-unlikely","tag-week"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Jalen-Royals-Unlikely-To-Play-Week-1.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}