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Chiefs Rookie Xavier Worthy Reveals Confusing Draft Day Phone Call With Colts

The Colts might want to have this chance back.

Josh Wilson

Worthy leads the Chiefs in receiving touchdowns.
Worthy leads the Chiefs in receiving touchdowns. / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images
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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy has landed in a really good spot to launch his career. As a speedy, bursty receiver, there aren't many quarterbacks better to play with than Patrick Mahomes.

It sounds like he was in play to land elsewhere on draft night, though.

"I had got a call at like [pick] 15, 16, I think it was the Colts. Hung up the phone in my face. It was a little crazy," Worthy said on The Rich Eisen Show.

Eisen stopped to get Worthy to clarify.

"The Colts called my phone on draft day and hung up the phone," he affirmed.

"You said, 'hello,' and there was a click?" Eisen asked. Worthy explained the person on the other end of the line introduced themselves, stopped talking and hung up. Eisen tossed out the possibility of a bad connection or a technical issue, which Worthy was having none of.

"I'm positive [they hung up on me]," Worthy said with a smirk.

The Colts drafted at No. 15 in the 2024 draft and took Laiatu Latu, a defensive lineman from UCLA. Drafting Worthy that early would have been a bit curious considering the Colts already had Alec Pierce, Michael Pittman Jr., and Josh Downs. At No. 52, they added Adonai Mitchell in the draft.

Indianapolis has had passing game issues most of the season, recently opting to bench Anthony Richardson in favor of veteran Joe Flacco.

The Chiefs traded with the Buffalo Bills to get the 28th overall pick to take Worthy. He has 282 yards from scrimmage on 26 touches with five touchdowns (three receiving, two rushing).

A very strange phone call indeed.

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Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.

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