Fresno's Xavier Worthy takes podium at Super Bowl's opening night

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Super Bowl week officially kicked disconnected successful New Orleans Monday night.

Both the Philadelphia Eagles (14-3) and Kansas City Chiefs (15-2) took the tract astatine the Caesars Superdome for media night.

One of the large players to instrumentality the podium for questions - Chiefs rookie WR and Central High School alum Xavier Worthy.

Since the commencement of 2024, it's been thing but a bid of wins for the rising star.

In March of past year, he'd tally the fastest 40-yard dash successful NFL harvester past (4.21 seconds).

That velocity caught the attraction of NFL scouts - not to notation his aboriginal QB Patrick Mahomes.

Kansas City's beforehand bureau appeared to hold with their franchise player, yet trading up successful the archetypal circular of the draught to instrumentality Worthy with the 28th wide pick.

It didn't instrumentality agelong for Worthy to marque an impression, scoring connected his first-ever interaction successful an NFL game.

Six months later, Worthy is caller disconnected being the starring receiver for the Chiefs successful the AFC Championship triumph against the Buffalo Bills en way to Super Bowl LIX.

He besides acceptable the franchise grounds for astir touchdowns from scrimmage by a rookie with 10.

On Monday night, the 21-year-old spoke to the media astir his mindset heading into the biggest crippled of his young career.

"Enjoy each the worldly that's coming around, conscionable having amusive with the media," Worthy said. "When the crippled clip comes conscionable mentally fastener successful and hole myself for war."

The Chiefs are presently favored by (-1.5) against Philadelphia.

If Kansas City tin propulsion disconnected the victory, they volition go the archetypal squad to three-peat successful the Super Bowl era.

Kickoff is acceptable for 3:30pm from New Orleans.

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