People everywhere want to know if Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs will continue to play in the NFL or retire after the 2025 Super Bowl. Kelce is one of the most celebrated tight ends in NFL history, so if he were to step down, he’d be going out on top.
Now, some of Kelce’s answers at the Super Bowl media days are giving insight into his future with the league.
Travis Kelce Talks Retirement
Please don’t retire, Kelce. Seriously. Fans everywhere love to watch this guy play, and then there’s the whole Taylor Swift aspect, too.
During the Chiefs’ media around at their New Orleans hotel Wednesday, February 5, Kelce said some things regarding retirement that should appease fans.
“I want to play as long as I can play,” Kelce said per the New York Times.
During the Monday media day, Kelce told reporters, “It’s months like these that make me feel like I can play forever. I’ve still got a lot of football left in me.”
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes also talked about Kelce and how he currently fits in the game.
“He’s getting older, and so we’re trying to cut back some of his reps, and he won’t do it,” Mahomes said. “He gets mad at you if you take him out of practice. And that bleeds into the entire team.”
Mahomes added, “Whenever you’re tired and whenever you’re not wanting to take a practice seriously or take a rep seriously, you look at him and he’s going full speed, scoring touchdowns after every catch, and it motivates you to take your game up to another level.”
In a February 6 feature in the New York Times, NFL analyst and expert Michael Silver notes that Kelce is “one of only 14 players, and three tight ends, to have recorded more than 1,000 career receptions, Kelce will go down as an all-time great. Many players in his age bracket regularly take days off, in training camp and during the season, but Kelce refuses to do either.”
Silver adds that, “Even when Kansas City coach Andy Reid or his assistants suggest scaling back his reps in a given practice, Kelce pushes back.”
Chiefs vs. Eagles
Bill Barnwell of ESPN discusses the Super Bowl matchup in a February 6 feature.
“I wouldn’t say this is the best Chiefs team we’ve seen, but it might be the wiliest,” he writes. “Rarely dominant but never out of it, the Chiefs put together a series of spectacularly close victories.”
He adds that, “Their win over the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship Game, a measure of revenge for Buffalo costing the Chiefs a chance at an undefeated regular season in November, was their 15th consecutive victory in games decided by seven or fewer points.”
As for the Eagles, Barnwell notes that, “The Eagles want their own revenge. If the team from two years ago knew it would get a 304-yard passing day with four touchdowns from Jalen Hurts, it would have liked its chances. Instead, the league’s most fearsome pass rush failed to sack Mahomes, the Chiefs went 4-for-5 in the red zone and the Eagles were denied their second title in six seasons.”