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Travis Kelce is addressing retirement rumors after the Kansas City Chiefs loss at Super Bowl LIX.
The NFL star opened up about his future in the league after 11 years.
“It’s gonna sting, I know everybody wants to know whether or not I’m playing next year, and right now I’m just kicking everything down the road,” Kelce said on the New Heights Podcast he co-hosts with his brother Jason. “I’m kicking every can, I can down the road.”
The Chiefs drafted Kelce in 2013, where he played his whole professional career. The tight-end player has won three Super Bowls with the Chiefs with over 1,000 receptions, over 12,000 receiving yards, and 80 touchdowns throughout his career.
Kelce noted that he wasn’t ready to say what his decision would be and that it would take some time to think about his future during the football off-season.
“I’m gonna take some time to figure it out,” Kelce said. “I think I owe it to my teammates that if I do come back, that it’s gonna be something that is a whole-hearted decision. I’m not half-assing it. I’m fully here for them.”
Kelce and the Chiefs were hoping to make history at Super Bowl LIX and win the championship three years in a row. However, the Philadelphia Eagles dominated the game and took the Lombardi Trophy, winning 40-22.
“I think I could play, it’s just whether or not I’m motivated or its the best decision for me as a man, as a human, as a person to take on all that responsibility,” he added.
Kelce has been preparing for his future following football, making inroads in the acting world, starring in Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie, making a cameo in Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore 2, and hosting the Prime Video game show Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity.
