The Chiefs borrowed a page from the Texas Longhorns on a Xavier Worthy play
Chiefs coach Andy Reid is always looking for new plays to run, whether it’s from the 1948 Rose Bowl or a Texas Longhorns game earlier this season.
The latter came Sunday during the Chiefs’ game against the Bills at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York.
In the first quarter, Chiefs rookie wide receiver Xavier Worthy ran a reverse after quarterback Patrick Mahomes faked giving the ball to JuJu Smith-Schuster and then Kareem Hunt.
X user Dan Casey, who shared the video above, also posted the original play the Texas Longhorns ran earlier this month. Casey called it a “Orbit Sweep and Spinner G/H Counter and Bluff Reverse.”
Texas coach Steve Sarkisian talked about how the play was designed.
“Probably too much time for us as a staff and you get in there and you start going through what if, what if, what if, and you start going through it, and then we’re like, well, sometimes it’s throwing mud on a wall and seeing what sticks,” Sarkisian said, per the Burnt Orange Nation blog.
“We ran it in practice, we’re like, wow, that looked way better than we probably thought it was going to work.”
