Rob Gronkowski has perfect taste, picks Travis Kelce as best tight end

Rob Gronkowski was recently asked to list the NFL’s best tight ends and it’s clear the former Patriot has perfect taste with his nod to Travis Kelce at No. 1.

Rob Gronkowski knows a thing or two about what it takes to make the list of the best tight ends in the National Football League. Until his recent retirement from the game of football, the former New England Patriots star sat atop the majority of those lists for the last several years—a generational talent who gave Tom Brady a target that was a complete mismatch against any defense in the league.

These days, Gronk is now suiting up in a different way—in an actual suit on a television set as an analyst/announcer for FOX Sports. He was recently asked to list the best tight ends in the game, and he exhibited perfect taste in his rankings when he said Kelce was No. 1 overall.

“He makes the most plays,” said Gronkowski. “Always consistent. Number one playmaker. He leads the Chiefs offense. He’s a great player.”

Kelce has been named to the Pro Bowl for each of the last four seasons in the AFC, right alongside Gronk himself, and this year he seems destined for a fifth straight nod to the NFL’s version of an All-Star game. He’s also been named a First-Team All-Pro twice, including the 2018 season.

Last year he set career marks with Patrick Mahomes as his starting quarterback and showed signs that his best football was yet to come. With Mahomes at the helm, Kelce set career marks in almost every category from targets (150) to catches (103) to yards (1,336) to touchdowns (10) to first downs (75).

This season, Kelce has 38 catches for 541 receiving yards through 7 games, giving him an average of 14.2 yards/touch—another career best if he can keep up this total.

Gronk himself was a five-time Pro Bowler who earned three All-Pro nods in the very years that Kelce did not earn the honor. With Gronk out of the way, Kelce’s path to be the best in the NFL really has little competition with only George Kittle as the other name even worthy of such consideration.