{"id":848245,"date":"2026-09-15T04:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848245\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T04:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:44:09","slug":"chiefs-travis-kelce-moves-into-second-place-for-all-time-tight-end-receiving-yards-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848245\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs&#8217; Travis Kelce moves into second place for all-time tight end receiving yards | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was quite a <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-marry-in-front-of-famous-friends-at-madison-square-garden\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">milestone<\/a> offseason for <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/travis-kelce\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Travis Kelce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs tight end wasted no time in making it a milestone regular season, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce moved into second all time for receiving yards by a tight end during the Chiefs\u2019 31-10 season-opening Monday night win over the Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, Kelce downplayed the individual milestone when speaking to ESPN&#8217;s Laura Rutledge after the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a good feeling to get this win, all the other stuff is just hoopla now,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kelce caught a 59-yard pass from old friend <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/patrick-mahomes\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Patrick Mahomes<\/a> in the third quarter to put him past longtime Dallas Cowboys stalwart Jason Witten for second all-time. Ahead of Monday\u2019s season opener, Kelce had 13,002 yards, needing 45 to surpass Witten (13,046).<\/p>\n<p>The catch was a turn-back-the-clock moment for Kelce, standing as his longest reception since Week 15, 2021, when he turned in a 69-yarder versus the Los Angeles Chargers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a memorable way to begin Kelce\u2019s 14th &#8212; and perhaps final season. The three-time Super Bowl winner now trails only Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez (15,127) in receiving yards by a tight end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was quite a milestone offseason for Travis Kelce. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end wasted no time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6255,1236,3,6257,99,4144],"class_list":["post-848245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-sports","tag-travis-kelce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}