{"id":523322,"date":"2026-03-08T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523322\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:10:08","slug":"report-free-agent-travis-kelce-motivated-to-play-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523322\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Free agent Travis Kelce motivated to play next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear a 14th season is very much a possibility for veteran tight end Travis Kelce.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DMRussini\/status\/2030735745749516330\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Athletic&#8217;s Dianna Russini<\/a>, Kelce is &#8220;motivated to return to play&#8221; next season and the Kansas City Chiefs &#8220;remain very much in the mix&#8221; to re-sign the 36-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce was selected by the Chiefs in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft out of the University of Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s played his entire career in Kansas City and has been instrumental in the three Super Bowl championships the Chiefs have won in the Patrick Mahomes era.<\/p>\n<p>A seven-time All-Pro, including four times as a first-team selection, Kelce ranks among the greatest tight ends to ever play in the NFL, holding multiple records including career post-season receptions (174), career post-season receiving touchdowns by a tight end (20), career post-season receiving yards by a tight end (2,039), receiving yards in a season by a tight end (1,416) and more.<\/p>\n<p>Last season with the Chiefs was among his least productive since he was made a full-time starter midway through the 2014 season. He amassed 851 yards on 76 receptions with five going for touchdowns as he played all 17 games for a Chiefs team that failed to make the playoffs for the first time since Kelce&#8217;s sophomore season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It would appear a 14th season is very much a possibility for veteran tight end Travis Kelce. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-523322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523322","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=523322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}