Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt weighs in on Travis Kelce’s future after team's rare playoff miss

January shot has go regular for the Kansas City Chiefs, with the team’s seasons regularly stretching into aboriginal February. But a 6-11 decorativeness successful the 2025 play meant the Chiefs were connected the extracurricular looking successful astatine the playoffs for the archetypal clip since 2014.

As the Chiefs’ offseason got disconnected to an earlier-than-normal start, Patrick Mahomes’ season-ending ACL wounded and the uncertainty swirling astir Travis Kelce’s aboriginal are being intimately watched successful Kansas City.

The 2025 play marked Kelce’s 13th twelvemonth successful the league. Last summer, the 11-time Pro Bowler fended disconnected questions astir whether helium would instrumentality to the Chiefs, and those concerns are apt to resurface successful the months starring up to grooming camp. But, Chiefs president and CEO Clark Hunt is assured the 36-year-old choky extremity tin proceed to beryllium a productive NFL player.

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Super Bowl LIV: Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce celebrates with squad proprietor Clark Hunt aft the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers astatine Hard Rock Stadium connected Feb. 2, 2020 successful Miami Gardens, Florida. (Simon Bruty /Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)

"Well arsenic an organization, we surely anticipation that helium volition travel back," Hunt told "Good Morning Football" connected Tuesday.

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"He had different large year, possibly not connected par with wherever helium was 4 oregon 5 years ago, but inactive had implicit 800 yards, and was truly 1 of the leaders connected the violative broadside of the shot for us. So there’s nary uncertainty successful my caput that helium tin inactive play. We’re trying to beryllium respectful and fto him person the clip that helium needs to marque a decision."

Kansas City Chiefs president and main enforcement serviceman Clark Hunt looks connected earlier a 2025 AFC divisional circular crippled against the Houston Texans astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium connected Jan. 18, 2025. (Jay Biggerstaff/ Imagn Images)

Hunt acknowledged Kelce's idiosyncratic commitments this offseason and said the enactment volition let him a portion to scope a determination astir his shot future.

"He has benignant of a engaged offseason coming up with his engagement and marriage, truthful we privation to beryllium respectful and springiness him the clip helium needs to marque a decision. But we surely anticipation that he’ll beryllium back."

Kelce finished the 2025 regular play with 851 receiving yards and 5 touchdowns. He was drafted successful 2013, but a preseason genu wounded sidelined him for astir his full rookie play speech from constricted enactment connected peculiar teams. The 2023 play broke Kelce's streak of 7 consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons.

Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce waves to the assemblage aft a nonaccomplishment to the Philadelphia Eagles during the NFL Super Bowl 59 shot game, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, successful New Orleans, Louisiana. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

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If Kelce does travel back, each signs constituent to Mahomes erstwhile again throwing him the ball. Chiefs caput manager Andy Reid has expressed assurance successful the quarterback's mindset regarding his rehab approach.

"He'll onslaught it, conscionable similar helium does everything else," Reid said of Mahomes' upcoming rehab. "There person been immoderate beauteous bully quarterbacks who person had the aforesaid injury, and they've done beauteous good aft they came back. He'll get aft it, and he's got bully radical present to rehab him. He'll beryllium close connected apical of each of that.

"As agelong arsenic the country goes well, arsenic expected, past I would expect a reasonably speedy betterment for him conscionable due to the fact that of those factors."

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