While Kansas City Chiefs fans love Travis Kelce and are glad he's on their team, other fan bases don't feel the same way. According to a recent survey conducted by The Action Network, Kelce was crowned as the second-most annoying player in the NFL by fans.
"A chunk of fans clearly aren’t here for the constant spotlight, and it’ll be interesting to see how that number shifts now that he and Taylor Swift are officially engaged. His “most annoying” percentage might rise, or it might start to fade if fans separate him from the pop star headlines."
Kelce was probably already someone that opposing fan bases disliked due to his loud personality but the Taylor Swift relationship and now engagement has only made that disdain rise. Kelce went from being a guy fans just had to watch trounce their teams on Sundays to now having to hear about his relationship all the time.
Of course, it's unlikely that Kelce would care about this distinction. He's one of the most well-known NFL players in the world, a future Hall of Famer, and now engaged to be married to the biggest pop star on the planet. Things could be going a lot worse for him.
Travis Kelce named the second-most annoying NFL player
You're probably wondering who managed to snag the top on the list of the most annoying players and that honor went to Aaron Rodgers, now of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This isn't shocking at all because, yeah, Rodgers is pretty annoying. He's always complaining about people putting him in the spotlight all the time and then does things specifically to remain in the spotlight. He led the poll with 24% of the vote with Kelce getting 17% of the vote.
Behind Kelce on the list at number three was his quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, who pulled in 11% of votes. Chiefs fans love Mahomes because of what the Chiefs have accomplished since he took over as quarterback but naturally, other teams are going to find him annoying for that very reason.
Fourth place went to Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott who earned 6% of the vote and Odell Beckham Jr. rounded out the top five with 5% of votes.
To make things more interesting, Ben Mendelowitz of The Action Network shared which player each NFL fan base found the most annoying. Fans of the Buccaneers, Cowboys, Eagles, Jaguars, Panthers, Raiders, Ravens, Rams, Saints, and Titans voted Kelce as the most annoying. Not even Bengals, Broncos, or Chargers fans voted him as such, funny enough. For what it's worth, Chiefs fans voted Rodgers as the most annoying player.
As noted above, Kelce probably finds this comical, especially his brother's old team voting him as the most annoying player. Players can't let this kind of stuff get to them and if Chiefs fans know Kelce, he'd be cracking up about this particular distinction.