Will Travis Kelce retire or will he continue to play for the Kansas City Chiefs? That's been the big question so far this offseason and it appears that we might officially have an answer on the matter.
According to Pat McAfee, a source said that Kelce is planning on coming back and is fired up about it.
"Source says, 'I'm coming back for sure'," McAfee revealed on his show. "Gonna try and get to the best shape I've been this offseason and get back to the mountain top. Got a real bad taste in my mouth with how I played in that last game and how I got the guys ready for battle. I can't go out like that."
Travis Kelce sure sounds like he's coming back for a revenge tour in 2025
These comments won't surprise anyone. Kelce didn't seem like himself in that Super Bowl 59 defeat and it was revealed recently that an illness might have played a part in why that was. That being said, it was hard to believe that Kelce would go out with an atrocious game like the one he and most of the Chiefs played in Super Bowl 59.
Kelce is coming off the worst season of his career statistically (823 yards and three touchdowns are both career-lows) but his 97 catches are tied for the fourth-most in his career. People said Kelce had a down year but truthfully, 97 catches for 823 yards is still a pretty darn good year for most tight ends.
While it's exciting to have Kelce back in the fold, Chiefs fans need to realize that he isn't going to be the same electric player anymore and that's okay. Xavier Worthy showed that he can be a top-tier talent during his rookie year and hopefully the Chiefs will get Rashee Rice back into the fold. That's going to open things up for Patrick Mahomes and hopefully for Travis Kelce as well.
It'd have been cool for the Chiefs to win three straight Super Bowls and for Kelce to walk off into the retirement sunset but that's not the timeline we live in. Kelce clearly wants to end things the right way and hopefully, at the end of the 2025 NFL season, he can retire after the Kansas City Chiefs win Super Bowl 60.