{"id":530041,"date":"2026-03-10T01:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530041\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:59:08","slug":"travis-kelce-returning-to-nfl-kansas-city-chiefs-not-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530041\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Kelce Returning to NFL Kansas City Chiefs, Not Retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>13. Travis has three personal trainers\u2014Alex Skacel, Andrew Spruill and Laurence Justin Ng\u2014and, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5792045\/2024\/09\/26\/travis-kelce-slow-start-performance-chiefs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Athletic<\/a>, one usually travels with him wherever he goes to ensure he remains in football-catching shape all year round.<\/p>\n<p>Alex, who&#8217;s also a physical therapist, recalled Travis wanting to go for a late night run after taking in a slate full of shows during Paris Fashion Week because he missed working out that day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s midnight, and we&#8217;re doing sprints over the bridges over the river,&#8221; the trainer told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/02\/style\/travis-kelce-managers-agent.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York Times<\/a> in April. &#8220;No matter where he is, he finds time to get done whatever he needs to get done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>14. Travis&#8217; personal chef, Kumar Ferguson, has been a friend since the fourth grade in Cleveland Heights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was an amateur cook working as a truck driver in 2016 when Travis called him up and offered him the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s like, &#8216;Hey man, I want to take my diet seriously, and take it to the next level,'&#8221; Kumar told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/06\/travis-kelce-is-going-for-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vanity Fair<\/a> in 2023.\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m like, s&#8211;t, let&#8217;s do it. Three or four days later, I was in Kansas City.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been responsible for everything from stocking Travis&#8217; fridge to delivering well-balanced lunches to the Chiefs&#8217; training facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"13. Travis has three personal trainers\u2014Alex Skacel, Andrew Spruill and Laurence Justin Ng\u2014and, according to The Athletic, one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-530041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}