Kelce takes blame for Worthy injury: 'No excuse'

Travis Kelce is taking work for the play connected which Xavier Worthy was injured successful the Kansas City Chiefs' play opener Sao Paolo, saying Wednesday there's "no excuse" for what happened.

Kelce opened up the "New Heights" podcast helium co-hosts with his member Jason Kelce by discussing the Chiefs' 27-21 nonaccomplishment to the Los Angeles Chargers connected Friday nighttime by saying helium took the "most accountability" himself for the decision arsenic 1 of the team's leaders.

"I ran into 1 of my guys and offed him retired of the game. I virtually took 1 of my players out. That's 1 of the astir frustrating parts and it's hard to get your juices backmost going knowing you conscionable wounded a guy," helium said.

Worthy, the Chiefs' fastest receiver, suffered a close enarthrosis injury connected the 3rd drawback of the play erstwhile portion moving a crossing way to summation separation against the Chargers' man-to-man coverage. helium collided with Kelce, who was moving a crossing way successful the other direction. Worthy, a second-year player, fell to the turf successful symptom and didn't instrumentality to the game.

"I'm expected to beryllium moving my way astatine extent for Worthy truthful it's frustrating for me. I was trying to benignant of acceptable up my feline to beryllium capable to get successful a presumption and it each conscionable happened beauteous quick. And I conscionable got to beryllium amended man," Kelce said. "I'm 13 years successful the league. There's nary excuse for maine moving into my ain guys similar that. Worthy has his feline bushed and we're retired the gate, and that crippled starts wholly different."

Worthy's availability for Sunday's Super Bowl rematch with the Philadelphia Eagles is inactive unclear.

"I'm not definite wherever he's astatine health-wise, but I'm hoping that we get him backmost arsenic accelerated arsenic imaginable due to the fact that helium means truthful overmuch to this squad ... I tin spot that feline and however hard helium works, and I tin spot his crippled getting amended and I cognize he's going to instrumentality the league by tempest erstwhile helium gets back," Kelce said.

Kelce added that Worthy is "one our champion players" who is "going to instrumentality that measurement into being 1 of the champion wide receivers successful the National Football League."

He said that erstwhile Worthy near the game, "one of the biggest pieces of the crippled program is retired of the game." He gave recognition to receivers JuJu Smith-Schuster and Tyquan Thornton for stepping up for the Chiefs aft Worthy's injury.

The Chiefs were already short-handed astatine receiver with rookie Jalen Royals not making the travel to Brazil due to the fact that of a genu wounded and Rashee Rice serving a six-game suspension for violating the NFL's idiosyncratic behaviour policy.

ESPN's Nate Taylor contributed to this report.