The Kansas City Chiefs may have been able to win back-to-back Super Bowl titles last season, but their team was anything but perfect, especially in the receiving corps, as their passing game wasn’t the same with a lack of dependable targets for superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Although the Chiefs didn’t have the typical prolific passing game like the team is used to in the Mahomes era, then-rookie wide receiver Rashee Rice did help shoulder the load, setting up a potentially promising NFL career in Kansas City.
Despite some off-the-field issues for Rice, the Chiefs were hoping he’d take another step forward in the 2024 NFL season, and he was off to a good start before Week 4’s divisional matchup on the road against the Los Angeles Chargers.
During an interception thrown by Mahomes, Rice went after the player who intercepted the pass and was able to knock the football out of his hands to cause a fumble, but that extra effort may have cost him dearly.
Rice went down on the play after a nasty collision caused the fumble, and it appears he is seriously injured and needed to be taken off the field at SoFi Stadium on a cart, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
Chiefs WR Rashee Rice was carted off the field after this play: pic.twitter.com/3W2VZ46iPF
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 29, 2024
Whenever a player gets taken on the field on a cart, that player almost always has suffered a nasty injury that will result in missing some time, which appears to be the case with Rice.
The team will likely lean on rookie wide receiver Xavier Worthy to help shoulder the load, with the team already dealing with the loss of veteran wideout Marquise Brown, who was put on the injured reserve to undergo shoulder surgery.
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