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The Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 wide receiver room appears to be getting even thinner. Veteran wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster exited Sunday\u2019s game against the San Francisco 49ers in the first quarter due to a hamstring injury. Smith-Schuster was officially questionable entering Sunday\u2019s game due to \u201chamstring spasms\u201d suffered during Thursday\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n
Update:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>At 5:35 p.m. CT,\u00a0<\/em>the Chiefs officially ruled Smith-Schuster out\u00a0for the rest of the game. He did not return following his initial exit. The story continues below as originally published.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYeah, I think he\u2019ll be fine,\u201d head coach Andy Reid said of Smith-Schuster on Friday.<\/p>\n Later in his Friday media availability, Reid was later asked if the Chiefs would use a practice squad elevation for one of their reserve wide receivers (Justyn Ross, Nikko Remigio or Montrell Washington) and Reid tipped KC\u2019s hand, as they ultimately did not elevate a receiver for Sunday\u2019s showdown.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll see,\u201d Reid said on Friday. \u201cI mean, we\u2019re gonna list him [Smith-Schuster] as questionable just in case something comes up, but he did good today [Friday], so we\u2019ll see how he does tomorrow. But he was good today.\u201d<\/p>\n If Smith-Schuster can\u2019t return in San Francisco, the team will be down to four healthy wide receivers: Xavier Worthy, Justin Watson, Mecole Hardman and Skyy Moore.<\/p>\n The Chiefs\u2019 wide receiver woes have been the team\u2019s top storyline through the early weeks of the 2024 NFL season. With Rashee Rice almost certainly lost for the season and Marquise \u201cHollywood\u201d Brown reportedly set to be sidelined for at least the vast majority of it, Jordan Foote of Kansas City Chiefs On SI took note of a recent report from NFL insiders who indicated that the Chiefs \u201chaven\u2019t been overly aggressive on the market to this point.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c[This] report signals that Kansas City might\u00a0ride the current wave of production from its offense\u00a0but keep its eyes peeled regarding external options,\u201d Foote wrote. \u201cComing off Week 5\u2019s huge performance against the New Orleans Saints, that makes at least some sense. In that outing, JuJu Smith-Schuster went over 100 receiving yards and rookie Xavier Worthy continued to showcase his growth. On the other hand, relying on an injury-prone wideout and a first-year player \u2013 along with 35-year-old tight end Travis Kelce \u2013 is an insanely risky proposition.\u201d<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 wide receiver room appears to be getting even thinner. Veteran wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster exited Sunday\u2019s game against the San Francisco 49ers in the first quarter … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11638,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions\/11638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}