Chiefs Bring Back Hal Presley After Xavier Worthy’s Injury in Week 1
The Kansas City Chiefs opened the 2025 campaign with a disappointing 27-21 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, and even though they have only played one game, injury concerns are beginning to pop up across the roster. Perhaps the spot that has been hit the hardest is wide receiver, which is an issue the team had to deal with in 2024.
With Rashee Rice being suspended for the first six games of the season and Jalen Royals being ruled out ahead of Week 1, the Chiefs were already shorthanded at wide receiver, but they took another big hit when Xavier Worthy was forced out of the game on the first drive with a shoulder injury. With his Week 2 status in doubt, Kansas City opted to reunite with Hal Presley on Tuesday.
Chiefs Sign Hal Presley to Their Practice Squad
Chiefs Hoping to Get Healthy at Wide Receiver Soon
The likelihood of Presley suiting up for the Chiefs is low, but he’s still a solid developmental prospect who has familiarity with the team’s offensive scheme. If he’s needed in a pinch, he can fill in on offense, and even if he isn’t needed, there’s no harm in developing him behind the scenes. Chances are Worthy won’t play in Week 2, meaning that Kansas City’s depth is going to be tested again early in the season.
If Worthy and Royals both can’t play against the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 2, that will force Marquise Brown, JuJu Smith-Schuster, and Tyquan Thornton to step up once again in the passing game. The injury bug has already hit the Chiefs pretty hard, but they will have to do their best to not focus on that as they gear up for their Super Bowl LIX rematch with Philadelphia at 4:25 p.m. ET on Sunday.
Latest Micah McFadden injury update is exactly what Giants didn't want to hear
The New York Giants' offense looked as bad as everyone expected in their 2025 season opener, highlighting that this defense needs to play at peak efficiency every week to wring a few wins out of this schedule. That task got much harder when it was announced that a locked-in starter will miss a good chunk of time.
Starting inside linebacker Micah McFadden was taken out of their Week 1 loss against the Washington Commanders with a serious lower body injury that remained a bit of a mystery. There has been some clarity after the latest injury update, and it's not good for the Giants' defense.
Mike Garafolo is reporting that McFadden is in line to miss a significant part of the 2025 season with a foot injury he suffered in the Washington loss. While the Giants are hopeful McFadden could come back before the end of this season, New York will be without him for most of their most important games.
Giants LB Micah McFadden to miss most of 2025 with foot injury
McFadden has topped 100 tackles in each of the last two seasons while picking up four sacks and an interception in that same timespan. While Joe Schoen has a very up-and-down history when it comes to drafting and developing in the later rounds, McFadden was one heck of a fifth-round pick.
In terms of filling McFadden's spot next to Bobby Okereke, look for one of either former Ravens special teams ace Chris Board or 2024 sixth-round pick Darius Muasau to step in. Neither of those two is an ideal starter, but desperate times call for desperate measures in New York.
The Giants don't have a ton of time to lick their wounds. Their next three games without McFadden will come against a division rival in the Dallas Cowboys, who looked better than expected, the reigning AFC Champions in the Kansas City Chiefs, and a Los Angeles Chargers squad led by a terrific quarterback in Justin Herbert.
2025 may be a long year for both the Giants as an organization and their fans, and losing one of the team's better internal development stories right before the schedule starts to show teeth is brutal.
