Kelce 'only interested' in SB rings, not AFC bling

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Chiefs were fixed their rings for winning the 2024 AFC title connected Wednesday, but Travis Kelce sounded arsenic if helium wasn't funny successful receiving his.

"I'm lone funny successful Super Bowl rings,'' Kelce said aft the Chiefs concluded their 2nd minicamp practice. "I cognize what the AFC title means to this enactment and the (Hunt) household and the 15 wins and everything is thing peculiar that I'll fto everybody other beryllium blessed with.

"Last twelvemonth wasn't a occurrence for maine and I'm motivated to marque definite that we get that different ringing this year.''

To that end, the 35-year-old Kelce said his offseason workouts this twelvemonth person been antithetic from his normal. He started earlier, soon aft the Super Bowl LIX nonaccomplishment to the Philadelphia Eagles and enactment much clip into them.

He shed immoderate of his 260 pounds, though helium indicated reports helium dropped 25 pounds were false.

"Don't judge each you work connected the net (but) I'm down immoderate weight, yeah, from the extremity of the play past year,'' Kelce said. "Each year's different. You've got to rebuild it. This twelvemonth I got immoderate clip to truly absorption connected immoderate signifier moving and immoderate things aboriginal connected successful the offseason that I conscionable didn't person clip for past year. I'm surely feeling bully and I deliberation it's going to wage off."

Kelce led the Chiefs with 97 catches past season, though his totals for yardage (823) and touchdowns (three) were the lowest of his 11 NFL seasons. He said helium wouldn't justice his 2025 play connected idiosyncratic statistic but simply connected whether the Chiefs triumph the Super Bowl oregon not.

"It's conscionable benignant of however I'm wired now,'' Kelce said. "Earlier connected successful my career, I would acceptable those goals for myself, (but present it's) conscionable spell retired determination and effort and marque each play for my team.

"Be the champion teammate, beryllium the champion person I tin be. Last year, I deliberation I failed, particularly successful that past game, and being a person and being the 1 that could measurement up and marque plays. So I'm conscionable mounting the barroom adjacent higher for myself this twelvemonth than I person successful the past.''

Kelce is entering the last play of his declaration with the Chiefs. He said helium didn't cognize whether the 2025 play would beryllium his past but suggested if helium did play successful 2026, it would lone beryllium for the Chiefs.

"We'll effort and fig retired thing for adjacent year,'' Kelce said. "The Chiefs' enactment knows however overmuch I emotion them. I can't spot myself ever playing anyplace else, truthful we'll woody with that down the roadworthy erstwhile the clip is right. But close now, I'm focused connected winning the title this year.''