{"id":589146,"date":"2026-04-06T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:05:08","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-prospect-reveals-meeting-with-chiefs-te-travis-kelce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589146\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft prospect reveals meeting with Chiefs TE Travis Kelce"},"content":{"rendered":"

The top prospects in this month’s 2026 NFL Draft continue to meet with teams, and the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> have worked with many of them over the past few weeks. One of the many players confirmed to attend a meeting was Oregon Ducks<\/a> tight end Kenyon Sadiq, who recently revealed a surprising encounter with a Chiefs superstar.<\/p>\n

Sadiq, during an interview with Sports Illustrated Oregon Ducks<\/a> reporter Bri Amaranthus, revealed that he had visited the Chiefs beforehand and met Travis Kelce, on the same day the eleven-time Pro Bowler signed his new contract extension.<\/p>\n

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“It was awesome, just kind of a moment of realization, like, this is the NFL,” said Sadiq, “He’s a super down-to-earth person, He’s not going to try to ego you by any means. I think that’s pretty rare, especially being the celebrity or caliber that he’s at. It was really cool. He’s a cool guy.”<\/p>\n

Sadiq had one of the best days ever by a tight end during this year’s Combine: 40-Yard Dash: 4.39 was the best by a tight end, Vertical Jump: 43.5″ was the second-best ever by a tight end, and the Broad Jump: 11’1″ was third-best ever by a tight end.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Sadiq finished with 51 receptions for 560 yards and eight touchdowns. He was named First-team All-Big Ten and earned Big Ten Tight End of the Year honors.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: 2026 NFL Draft prospect reveals meeting with Chiefs TE Travis Kelce<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top prospects in this month’s 2026 NFL Draft continue to meet with teams, and the Kansas City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,287884,1240,133454,593,1219,52106,85,14068],"class_list":{"0":"post-589146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bri-amaranthus","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-kenyon-sadiq","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-oregon-ducks","15":"tag-pro-bowler","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-travis-kelce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589146","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=589146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}