{"id":43961,"date":"2025-03-17T09:50:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T09:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=43961"},"modified":"2025-03-17T09:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T09:50:03","slug":"wr-juju-smith-schuster-will-hope-to-make-the-most-of-his-opportunities-in-another-season-with-the-chiefs-and-patrick-mahomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=43961","title":{"rendered":"WR JuJu Smith-Schuster will hope to make the most of his opportunities in another season with the #Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 15th, 2025 at 3:24pm CST by Ely Allen<\/p>\n<div data-swiftype-index=\"true\">\n<p>With some potential question marks in the receiving corps for 2025, the Chiefs seem to have opted to keep some familiar faces in the room for <strong>Patrick Mahomes<\/strong> to throw to. To that end, Kansas City will re-sign veteran wide receiver <strong>JuJu Smith-Schuster<\/strong> for the 2025 season, per Jordan Schultz of FOX Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Since having a resurgent, Super Bowl-winning season in 2022 with the Chiefs, Smith-Schuster has struggled to make an impact in the past two seasons. Smith-Schuster\u2019s rebound season came after he only played five games in his final year with Pittsburgh and saw him record his second-highest career receiving yards total (933), though he only registered three touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Following his big year with Mahomes, Smith-Schuster cashed in, signing a three-year, $33MM deal with the Patriots. Unfortunately, Smith-Schuster\u2019s rebounded success didn\u2019t carry over in New England, as he only accumulated 260 receiving yards and one touchdown in 11 games. The team released him after only one season.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take too long for the Chiefs to pick up their old receiver for a second stint with the team, joining free agent addition <strong>Marquise Brown<\/strong> and rookie first-round pick <strong>Xavier Worthy<\/strong> as new additions in the wake of some <strong>Rashee Rice<\/strong> uncertainty. Despite injuries to both Brown and Rice, Smith-Schuster was unable to take advantage of more playing time, only logging 231 yards and two touchdowns on the season.<\/p>\n<p>More opportunities for targets could certainly be on the way for Smith-Schuster in 2025, though. The Chiefs have already seen <strong>DeAndre Hopkins<\/strong> depart for Baltimore, and <strong>Mecole Hardman<\/strong>\u2018s contract with the team expired, as well. With those two gone, Smith-Schuster presumably slots in as WR4 behind Rice, Worthy, and Brown.<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned Rice uncertainty could open up even more opportunities for Smith-Schuster. While Rice is recovering from a season-ending injury, the uncertainty actually comes from two separate legal incidents from the last offseason that could see suspensions levied on Rice. First, Rice was involved in a major accident that he was allegedly responsible for before leaving the scene, and second, Rice was under investigation for an alleged assault incident. The team was reportedly bracing for a suspension for Rice before it was made known that, if a suspension was coming, it wouldn\u2019t occur in 2024. That could mean that a suspension is still imminent for the 2025 season, though.<\/p>\n<p>The team also received a second scare when Worthy was arrested on a charge of assault against a family or household member by impeding their breathing or circulation. Luckily for Kansas City, Worthy was not charged after the case was declined following discussions with multiple witnesses and Worthy\u2019s attorneys. The case was closed, and Worthy has seemingly avoided any punishment for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>Still, amidst the legal troubles of their two top wide receivers, the Chiefs opted to re-sign Brown, giving him another chance to make an impact in Kansas City after missing all but two games recovering from shoulder surgery in 2024. Smith-Schuster, too, will return for the Chiefs in 2025 as the team pursues its third Super Bowl victory in four years and its fourth appearance in as many years in the big game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst some potential uncertainty with Rashee Rice&#8217;s availability in 2025, the Chiefs have opted to re-sign veteran WR JuJu Smith-Schuster&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1871,15,1786],"class_list":["post-43961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-juju-smith-schuster","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-transactions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WR JuJu Smith-Schuster will hope to make the most of his opportunities in another season with the #Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes - 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