By now you may have heard that Kansas City wide receiver Xavier Worthy was arrested in Texas and booked on assault charges. We always need to be careful in moments like this. What’s true, what’s accurate, what’s false isn’t always immediately known. Just because the police say something doesn’t make it so.
Williamson County District Attorney Shawn Dick told the Statesman that after speaking with multiple witnesses, his office is not accepting the case at this time.
“After further investigation by the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office and further discussion with a third-party witness, Mr. Worthy and his attorneys, this case is being declined at this time pending completion of the investigation by the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office,’ reads an email from Dick’s office. ‘Mr. Worthy and his lawyers are fully cooperating with this investigation.
‘We will continue to evaluate the case. As is our practice with all declines, should you develop additional information indicative of probable cause in this case, our office will consider that information and may present the case at that time to a Williamson County Grand Jury.”
No, we don’t know what happened. But this is what we do know for a fact. There’s some sort of problem in Kansas City with players and arrests in the offseason. This isn’t to say the organization is the only NFL franchise with problems (hello: Cleveland and Baltimore). There’s just something that seems off in Kansas City. Something weird. Something disturbing.
The team has a reputation for being a classy organization and there’s justification for that. In most ways, it is. Yet a message isn’t getting through to players about how to stay out of trouble once the season ends. There’s some type of massive disconnect happening and coach Andy Reid and that front office needs to figure out how to fix it.
Because while some of these arrests are minor, others are immensely disturbing stuff. Like, horrible stuff. The team also seems incapable of putting a stop to it.
Wide receiver Rashee Rice last April was arrested for his involvement in a multi-car crash while racing a Lamborghini in Dallas. He was also suspected of assaulting a photographer at a Dallas nightclub in May. The alleged victim did not press charges.
‘A year of hard labor’ sounds like something from ‘The Longest Yard.’ It’s not. It’s just another Kansas City offseason.
Now, there’s Worthy.
Again, we don’t know what happened. What we do know is there’s another Kansas City player arrest. Worthy won’t be charged, it seems, but we’ve seen this arrest story before in Kansas City.
Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
There needs to be both an internal and public reckoning of what is happening here. This isn’t holding Kansas City to a different standard.
This is holding them to the most minimum of ones.
This story has been updated with new information.