Intro
Travis Michael Kelce ,born October 5, 1989) is an American football tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Chiefs in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft and later won Super Bowls LIV, LVII, and LVIII with the team. He played college football for the Cincinnati Bearcats.
Considered one of the greatest tight ends of all time, Kelce is a nine-time Pro Bowler and a seven-time All-Pro, with four first-team and three second-team selections. He holds the NFL records for most consecutive and most overall seasons with 1,000 receiving yards by a tight end: seven.
He holds the record for most receiving yards by a tight end in a single season with 1,416 in 2020, despite playing in only 15 games. During the 2022 season, Kelce became the fifth NFL tight end to reach 10,000 career receiving yards and reached the milestone faster than any tight end in NFL history.
Kelce was named to the NFL 2010s All-Decade Team. During the 2023 season, he surpassed Jerry Rice in career playoff receptions en route to Super Bowl LVIII, his fourth Super Bowl appearance in five seasons.
Outside of football, Kelce has appeared on reality and scripted television and in advertisements. He co-hosts the podcast New Heights with his brother Jason, covering topics from football to popular culture.
Kelce’s relationship with singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has drawn massive media coverage and stimulated viewership and revenue for his team and its league.
| Kelce in 2023 | |||||||
| No. 87 – Kansas City Chiefs | |||||||
| Position: | Tight end | ||||||
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| Born: | October 5, 1989 (age 34)
Westlake, Ohio, U.S. |
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| Height: | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||
| Weight: | 250 lb (113 kg) | ||||||
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| High school: | Cleveland Heights (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) | ||||||
| College: | Cincinnati (2008–2012) | ||||||
| NFL draft: | 2013 / Round: 3 / Pick: 63 | ||||||
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| Roster status: | Active | ||||||
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| Career NFL statistics as of Week 18, 2023 | |||||||
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Early life
Kelce was born on October 5, 1989, in Westlake, Ohio. His father, Ed Kelce, is a sales representative in the steel industry, and his mother, Donna, is a former bank executive. Kelce’s older brother Jason played center for the Philadelphia Eagles for 13 seasons.
Kelce attended Cleveland Heights High School in his hometown of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where he played football, basketball, and baseball. He was a three-year letter winner as quarterback for the Tigers.
As a senior in 2007, he ran for 1,016 yards and 10 touchdowns and threw for 1,523 yards, 21 touchdowns, and eight interceptions. His 2,539 yards of total offense garnered him All-Lake Erie League honors.
College career
Considered a two-star recruit by Rivals.com, Kelce accepted a scholarship offer from the University of Cincinnati over offers from Akron, Eastern Michigan, and Miami (OH). He joined his brother, Jason Kelce, who was the starting left guard for the Bearcats.
After redshirting in 2008, he appeared in 11 games in 2009, playing at tight end and quarterback out of the Wildcat formation. He tallied eight rushes for 47 yards and two touchdowns and had one reception for three yards. He was suspended for the 2010 season after testing positive for marijuana, a violation of team rules.
Returning for the 2011 season, he played tight end, recording 13 catches totaling 150 yards and two touchdowns. In 2012, his last collegiate season, he set personal season highs in receptions (45), receiving yards (722), yards per receptions (16.0), and receiving touchdowns (8).
Kelce earned first-team all-conference honors and in March 2013, was named the College Football Performance Awards Tight End of the Year. Kelce graduated in 2022 with a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies degree, he received his diploma during an April 2024 podcast event at the Fifth Third Arena with his brother Jason.
College statistics
| Season | Team | GP | Rec | Yds | Y/R | TD |
| 2008 | Cincinnati | Redshirted | ||||
| 2009 | Cincinnati | 11 | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 0 |
| 2010 | Cincinnati | Suspended | ||||
| 2011 | Cincinnati | 11 | 13 | 150 | 11.5 | 2 |
| 2012 | Cincinnati | 13 | 45 | 722 | 16.0 | 8 |
| Career | 35 | 59 | 875 | 14.8 | 10 | |
Other activities and personal life
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
A few weeks after winning the Super Bowl in 2023, Kelce hosted Saturday Night Live, and he won accolades for his performance. “I think he killed it,” SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels told Vanity Fair.
“He’s a natural. He was a presence from the moment he walked out.” Kelce has said he could see himself working as a game show host or a color commentator for NFL games after his playing career ends.
Kelce was exposed to millions of new fans when he started dating Taylor Swift, who attended several of his games in 2023. The star football player, in turn, saw her perform in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Swift discussed her relationship with journalist Sam Lansky for a December 2023 article in Time magazine. She said:
This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell. We started hanging out right after that. So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other.
By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date.
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The first Super Bowl
The newly renamed Chiefs began playing in Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium when they arrived in 1963. The team would share the stadium with some of the city’s other sports franchises. The Chiefs returned to the middle of the AFL West standings, where they remained until 1966.
That season they again won 11 games and captured the AFL title. The Chiefs were then a part of one of the most historic moments in American football history when they faced off against the Green Bay Packers in the first annual AFL-NFL World Championship Game—what Hunt later renamed the “Super Bowl.” The Chiefs, however, lost what came to be known as Super Bowl I by the score of 35–10.
In 1969 the Chiefs featured the league’s leading defense—which starred future Hall of Famers Willie Lanier, Bobby Bell, and Buck Buchanan—and they once again won an AFL championship. That earned them a berth in the Super Bowl, where the Chiefs defeated the Minnesota Vikings in the final game ever played by an AFL franchise. (The two leagues merged in 1970.)
