Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes seems excited to throw passes to speedy wide receiver Xavier Worthy next season.

Mahomes celebrated on X after the Chiefs traded up with the Buffalo Bills in order to select Worthy with the No. 28 pick of the 2024 NFL Draft Thursday night.

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Chiefs defensive end Charles Omenihu also reacted to the pick:

Charles Omenihu @charless_94

Worthy down there somewhere 😂<br>Hollywood down there somewhere <br>Trav working the sticks and rice and we got pop 😭

Worthy set an NFL Combine record in March by running the 40-yard dash in 4.21 seconds.

He also passed for more than 1,000 yards during his third season with Texas in 2023.

B/R Gridiron @brgridiron

Xavier Worthy is bringing his 4.21 40-yard dash to Kansas City 🔥 <a href="">

Texas Longhorns @TexasLonghorns

call the amateurs and cut them from the team <a href="">@Chiefs</a> 😏🤘<a href="">#HookEm</a> | <a href="">@XavierWorthy</a> <a href="">

Rany Jazayerli @jazayerli

The Chiefs have won back-to-back Super Bowls with Patrick Mahomes throwing TDs in those 2 games to Kadarius Toney, Skyy Moore, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, and Mecole Hardman.<br><br>Their WR corps now goes Hollywood Brown, Rashee Rice, and Xavier Worthy.<br><br>Sorry, NFL. You had your chance.

Worthy, who ranks third in Longhorns history with 26 career touchdowns, will now compete to be a top target for Mahomes next season.

Worthy will now join a receiver group also bolstered by the offseason signing of Marquise Brown, another receiver known for his speed.

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Hollywood Brown and Xavier Worthy both ran sub-4.3 in the 40.

The Chiefs were looking for receiver depth after benching Kadarius Toney at the tail end of their run to the Super Bowl in 2023.

Kansas City fans are now hoping their team has now found it.

📽️ Red Tribe Cinema @ClayWendler

Kelce<br>Brown<br>Rice<br>Worthy<br>Pacheco<br><br>Best skill position group Mahomes has had?

Bucco Nutzy @Nutzypoo_ttv

Xavier Worthy with Mahomes and Reid is diabolical.

Will Cain @willcain

Worthy and Mahomes will be scary.

LC @laurencowling

MAHOMES TO XAVIER WORTHY IS GONNA BE DISGUSTING!!! 😭🥹 love that for him let's go! Welcome to my fantasy team next year

Kevin Negandhi @KevinNegandhi

It all seriousness… it's not fair the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes just got Xavier Worthy. <br><br>Ran a 4.21 40. <br><br>Speed is just bonus to what he can do. Andy Reid got Desean Jackson 2.0.

The trade up led some to wonder why the Bills passed on their own opportunity to draft Worthy. Buffalo ended up trading down a second time and out of the first round entirely.

It was also the Bills who traded with the Chiefs in the first round of the 2017 draft, which ended up being the most consequential pick in Kansas City after they moved up to No. 10 and drafted Mahomes.

Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless

Rich get richer: Mahomes get Xavier Worthy, who is BLAZING FAST. Just silly speed. And Buffalo traded the opportunity to draft him???

Master @MasterTes

The Bills enabling the Chiefs to get Patrick Mahomes and Xavier Worthy. What part of the game is that

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I can understand the Bills trading down. <br><br>I can understand not taking Worthy. <br><br>I cannot understand being willing to tie yourselves to the fastest WR of all time going to Reid and Mahomes.

The Chiefs traded down in the third and seventh round in order to snag the pick from the Bills.

That sacrifice will end up being well worth it if Worthy can make the defending champions even more dangerous by becoming a true WR1 for Mahomes.