{"id":379891,"date":"2025-12-31T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379891\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:19:07","slug":"chiefs-travis-kelce-needs-57-yards-to-make-nfl-history-before-potential-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379891\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs&#8217; Travis Kelce needs 57 yards to make NFL history before potential retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this is going to be it for Travis Kelce, he better get to work.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> tight end could be retiring when this season concludes. He&#8217;s got a chance to move into an impressive place in NFL history before he does.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce needs 57 yards to pass Jason Witten and be second all-time in receiving yards by a tight end.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Travis Kelce needs 10 yards to become the 3rd tight end ever to surpass the 13,000-yard receiving mark in a career. He needs 57 yards to surpass Hall of Fame candidate Jason Witten for 2nd most receiving yards of all time by a tight end.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think he accomplishes both this\u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wgKcargw21\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/wgKcargw21<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Farzin Vousoughian (@Farzin21) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Farzin21\/status\/2006148311095325045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">December 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/philadelphia-eagles\/news\/eagles-jalen-hurts-big-problem-not-what-used-be\/945d944c1d6b40441f3483ff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jalen Hurts has a big problem, and it&#8217;s not what it used to be<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kelce enters Sunday&#8217;s game with 12,990 yards (on 1,077 catches with 82 TDs).<\/p>\n<p>Witten is in second place currently at 13,046 yards (on 1,228 catches with 74 TDs).<\/p>\n<p>First place Tony Gonzalez is likely out of reach even if Kelce keeps playing. He&#8217;s at 15,127 yards (on 1,325 catches with 111 TDs).<\/p>\n<p>The most notable thing here, though, is games played.<\/p>\n<p>Tony G played in 270 games. Witten played in 271.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce has played just 191. His cards per game is at a pace much better than either Gonzalez or Witten.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs don&#8217;t have a lot to play for in Week 18, and Chris Oladokun will be at the QB helm again.<\/p>\n<p>The least they can do is get Kelce past Witten on this all-time leaderboard to continue making Kelce&#8217;s case as one of the best tight ends ever.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If this is going to be it for Travis Kelce, he better get to work. The legendary Kansas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-379891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}