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On the eve of the 2025 Super Bowl, it was reported Travis Kelce was considering status and what happened successful the large crippled could power his decision.
The Kansas City Chiefs' dreams of a three-peat vanished, and Kelce announced helium would beryllium returning for the 2025 season.
It goes without saying Kelce is approaching the extremity of his career.
He posted vocation lows successful yards and touchdowns and, for a 2nd consecutive season, failed to marque an All-Pro squad aft doing truthful successful 8 consecutive years.
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Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce (87) celebrates with backmost Patrick Mahomes (15) aft Mahomes’ touchdown against the Houston Texans during the archetypal fractional astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium. (Denny Medley/Imagn Images)
He's besides had 2 consecutive seasons without eclipsing the 1,000-yard people successful receiving yardage.
"If it's the past ride, you would ne'er know," Mahomes told reporters Thursday astatine Chiefs practice. "The mode he's talking astir football, the mode he's talking astir moving and trying to beryllium adjacent amended this twelvemonth than helium was past year, helium doesn't look similar a feline similar it's his past ride, similar he's bushed of the job."
Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce (87) and backmost Patrick Mahomes (15) hold to pb the squad onto the tract earlier a preseason crippled against the Jacksonville Jaguars Aug. 10, 2024, successful Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
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Kelce, 35, initially said helium was "kicking each tin I tin down the road" regarding his determination to retire. But, ultimately, "I f---ing emotion playing the crippled of football."
"I inactive consciousness similar I tin play astatine a precocious level and perchance astatine a higher level than I did past year. I don’t deliberation it was my champion outing. I deliberation I fto my guys down successful a batch much moments than I helped them," Kelce said connected "New Heights" successful March.
"Especially if you look astatine my way grounds and however I’ve been successful years past. I privation to springiness it a bully run. I person a atrocious sensation successful my rima successful however I ended the twelvemonth and however good I was playing and however accountable I was for the radical astir me. And I emotion truthful galore radical successful Kansas City, some successful that installation and successful the community, and it’s location for me.
Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce walks disconnected the tract aft losing to the Philadelphia Eagles successful the Super Bowl Feb. 9, 2025, successful New Orleans. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
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"I don’t privation to permission that beingness yet. I’ve enactment successful a batch of hard enactment and enactment successful a batch of absorption into being the champion that I tin for KC. Last year, it didn’t extremity good for us, and I consciousness similar determination is simply a work successful maine to play retired the declaration I initially signed to springiness Kansas City and the Chiefs enactment everything I’ve got, and that’s what I’m gonna do, man."
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