{"id":2207228,"date":"2025-12-21T03:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2207228"},"modified":"2025-12-21T03:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:40:56","slug":"chiefs-oc-matt-nagy-praises-the-development-of-rookie-wr-jalen-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chiefs-oc-matt-nagy-praises-the-development-of-rookie-wr-jalen-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs OC Matt Nagy praises the development of rookie WR Jalen Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" data-autotag=\"e91367c2-d7b8-4bec-9359-95947acd6b0e\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> offensive coordinator Matt Nagy spoke with reporters on Thursday about the progress of rookie wide receiver Jalen Royals heading into Week 16 and the potential of gaining more experience against the Tennessee Titans.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p>\u201cYou want to see more time from him (Jalen Royals), if possible. We\u2019ve been in a position where these wide receivers that we have, we feel very fortunate with the guys that we\u2019ve had for the middle of the season, when Rashee (Rice) came back,\u201d said Nagy, \u201cSome of it\u2019s a numbers thing for him, and it\u2019s somewhat of a redshirt year in a way. He\u2019s practicing hard in practice, but for him, there\u2019s a lot of good stuff there with him, and I\u2019m excited to see what he\u2019s going to do. Whether it\u2019s these next three games or the future, but yes, it\u2019s going to give some kids an opportunity to maybe get some more time that they wouldn\u2019t have gotten, and it\u2019s our job to see that and to give them those chances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Royals has been a victim of the numbers game on the depth chart with veteran wide receivers playing ahead of him all season. He missed the start of the regular season due to an injury that slowed his progress.<\/p>\n<p>The former Utah State standout has yet to record a catch in four games spent primarily on special teams.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/><lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2025-12-19 15:00:53.233815818 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2025-12-19 15:00:53.233815818 +0000 UTC\"\/><\/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 chiefswire.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy spoke with reporters on Thursday about the progress of rookie wide receiver Jalen Royals heading into Week 16 and the potential of gaining more experience against the Tennessee Titans. \u201cYou want to see more time from him (Jalen Royals), if possible. We\u2019ve been in a position where these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[306671,36149,66249,22036,24362,339770,22304,21851,313783,426095,426094,21738,304804,376129,239343,239347,23759,426092,361428,426093,21848,42570],"class_list":["post-2207228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-chiefs","tag-city","tag-football","tag-hub","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-matt","tag-matt-nagy","tag-nagy","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-rashee","tag-rashee-rice","tag-rice","tag-sports","tag-sports-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207228","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=2207228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207229,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207228\/revisions\/2207229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}