Travis Kelce Explains His Decision to Sit Out of the Chiefs’ Game Against the Chargers.
The reason Travis Kelce skipped this past weekend’s Kansas City Chiefs game is rather unexpected. “My health was not significantly affected by it. “My injury had nothing to do with whether I was going to get hurt,” Travis, 34, said on
his brother Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast on Wednesday, January 10. “It was more so it just didn’t feel right in my gut.” After being “in and out of practice” all week, the NFL tight end watched from the sidelines as the Chiefs
faced the Los Angeles Chargers in their final regular season game on Sunday, January 7. (The Chargers were defeated 13–12.) “If I could get some rest going in the next week, stay off the turf out there in L.A. and just avoid
some hits, I was all for that to gear up for the playoffs,” he said. But Travis’ elder brother questioned whether a “arbitrary” NFL record had anything to do with the game miss. LINKED: AthLETES WHO PASSIONATE FOR
FOOTBALL Travis probably would have broken the NFL tight end record for the most consecutive seasons with 1,000 yards if he had played on Sunday. His eighth consecutive year was only sixteen receiving yards away. Rather,
Travis had 984 receiving yards at the end of the regular season. Travis reflected on “New Heights,” saying, “It didn’t feel like I should be playing the game that way,” adding that he doesn’t “give an s-t about the record.” “I’ve never sat
here and said if I don’t get 1,000 yards, my season was a failure,” Travis stated. “I’ve always had it in my mind … if I lose a Super Bowl, that’s a failure.” Missouri’s Kansas City, December 31: On December 31, 2023, in Kansas City,
Missouri, Travis Kelce #87 of the Kansas City Chiefs warms up before facing the Cincinnati Bengals at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Images courtesy of Jamie Squire/Getty Images Jamie Squire Getty Images/Jamie Squire
Playing the game for only sixteen yards didn’t feel right, according to Travis. “I thought I’d just bring the energy on the sideline,” he said. “Let my guys go out there and rock, and sure enough they did, baby.” Travis was evasive when
it came to his potential on-field appearance before the game. A360 RELATED: TRAVIS KELCE’S RELATIONSHIP TIMELINE WITH TAYLOR SWIFT “I know Coach [Andy] Reid is gonna do what’s best for the time, and right now
I’m not quite sure exactly how it’s gonna play out [and] if guys are gonna sit [on the bench], what guys are gonna get elevated,” Travis said on “New Heights” on the fifth of January. “It’s really going [to] depend on who’s on your roster
and how many guys you can deactivate and still put together a good team and have a full squad ready to go.” The Chiefs declared via X (previously Twitter) that Travis had “been ruled OUT” of the game officially prior to kickoff on
Sunday. Since the Chiefs game fell on the same day as the Golden Globes, Taylor Swift, Travis’ girlfriend, was not present in the stands. Barbie ended up winning the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement awards that she was up for on Sunday.
