{"id":455556,"date":"2026-02-05T13:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455556\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:47:07","slug":"patrick-mahomes-accidentally-led-chiefs-fans-to-believe-travis-kelce-was-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455556\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes accidentally led Chiefs fans to believe Travis Kelce was returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Chiefs season ended last month, fans have been waiting for any word about tight end Travis Kelce\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce, whose contract expired, could simply say he\u2019s done playing football and retire at the age of 36. Or perhaps he will return to the Chiefs for one last ride with quarterback Patrick Mahomes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Fans have looked for clues in what Kelce has said on his New Heights podcast. During one episode, he said Mahomes, who is coming off knee surgery, would do everything he could to return to \u201cthe Chiefs\u201d rather than \u201cus\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/for-petes-sake\/article313777867.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a sure sign Kelce would retire!;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a sure sign Kelce would retire!<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In another episode, Kelce said he couldn\u2019t wait to see offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy back in the facility (a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/for-petes-sake\/article314399410.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sure sign he\u2019d be back;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">sure sign he\u2019d be back<\/a>!).<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes on Wednesday accidentally got Chiefs fans excited about Kelce putting off retirement and returning for one more season. It came with this message on X:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s go!!!!! @tkelce,\u201d Mahomes wrote, and he included three bull\u2019s-eye emojis.<\/p>\n<p>That had to be a sign that Kelce won\u2019t be retiring, right? Some fans believed it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows something we don\u2019t,\u201d one wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Another shared this: \u201cHE COMING BACK, GOAT??\u201d with a crying emoji and a prayer one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sure knows something we don\u2019t,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n<p>And then there was this: \u201chell yeah! Let\u2019s go Travis!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few shared memes.<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes\u2019 mentions blew up, and he quickly clarified why he was so excited. It was about Kelce taking part in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/for-petes-sake\/article314491216.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a pro-am golf event;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a pro-am golf event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalking about \u26f3 \u26f3 \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02,\u201d Mahomes wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, Chiefs fans will just have to continue hoping and praying Kelce will return for the 2026 NFL season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the Chiefs season ended last month, fans have been waiting for any word about tight end Travis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,8825,186954,622,2218,82,12659],"class_list":["post-455556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chiefs","tag-chiefs-fans","tag-golf","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-sports","tag-travis-kelce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455556","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=455556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}