KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs gave tight finish Travis Kelce a major elevate with a brand new two-year contract Monday.
A supply instructed ESPN’s Adam Schefter that the deal is price $34.25 million with $17 million totally assured for this season and many of the relaxation to be assured on the third day of the 2025 league yr.
“Exhausting to place in phrases what Travis means to this group, this metropolis, and he was definitely a precedence to regulate his contract for us and it was one thing that was necessary for Clark [Hunt]. So very becoming that Travis [is] now the highest-paid tight finish in these two years,” common supervisor Brett Veach mentioned Monday.
In a video posted to X by the Chiefs, Kelce mentioned it was “an honor and a pleasure and I can not wait to get after it these subsequent two years … Chiefs eternally.”
Quarterback Patrick Mahomes celebrated the extension for his favourite goal by posting to X, “I instructed yall I will by no means let him go away!! Congrats my man! @tkelce”
PlayerCatchesTravis Kelce165<<Jerry Rice151Julian Edelman118>>32 receptions in 2023 playoffs– ESPN Stats & Info
“Once in a while you might have considered one of these guys which might be outliers and definitely Travis is a kind of gamers,” Veach mentioned when requested how for much longer Kelce, 34, can play. “At the moment we had an opportunity to get on the market in Part 2 [of the offseason program] and guys have been on the market working round, and Travis was the primary man in line, and I imply he seemed like he was 28 years outdated.
“The chances of somebody enjoying this far into the thirties are very low, but it surely does occur, and it occurs with simply unicorns within the career, and Travis is a kind of and we’ll definitely rejoice this with him and hopefully we are able to trip this factor even longer. So, we’ll simply have to attend and see. However I’ve seen no indicators of [Kelce] slowing down and everybody notices the sort of postseason he had, and he simply discovered that further gear and these particular ones, these particular gamers are all the time capable of finding that further gear.
“If anyone might do it, Travis can.”
Kelce in 2023 fell 16 yards in need of his eighth straight 1,000-yard season. He missed the primary recreation of the season with a knee damage and sat out the final recreation to relaxation for the playoffs. Seven straight 1,000-yard seasons is a document for his place.
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Kelce, who has been chosen to 9 consecutive Professional Bowls and is a four-time first-team All-Professional, had 93 receptions for 984 yards and 5 touchdowns final season.
Within the postseason, he added 32 catches for 355 yards and 4 touchdowns as he helped the Chiefs win a second consecutive Tremendous Bowl and third in 5 seasons.
Kelce has 907 receptions for 11,328 yards and 74 touchdowns in 11 NFL seasons. In 22 postseason video games, he has an NFL-record 165 catches for 1,903 yards and 19 touchdowns.
Kelce has additionally grow to be a crossover star, thanks partially to his relationship with pop icon Taylor Swift and his appearances on exhibits reminiscent of “Saturday Night time Reside.” The podcast he hosts along with his brother and former Philadelphia Eagles heart Jason Kelce has grow to be one of the crucial widespread throughout a number of genres, and he’ll quickly host a quiz present on Amazon Prime.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
