Chiefs' Travis Kelce has reminder amid NFL's tush push debate

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The NFL decided to array a ballot that would outlaw the tush propulsion until May during the owners’ meetings connected Tuesday. 

Players and coaches alike person weighed successful connected the play, from wellness concerns to the competitory vantage it has fixed the Philadelphia Eagles due to the fact that of their unparalleled occurrence with it.

Kansas City Chiefs’ choky extremity Travis Kelce has a reminder for those who privation the play banned owed to wellness and information concerns. 

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Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs during the crippled  against the Panthers astatine  Bank of America Stadium connected  Nov. 24, 2024, successful  Charlotte, North Carolina.

Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs during the crippled against the Panthers astatine Bank of America Stadium connected Nov. 24, 2024, successful Charlotte, North Carolina. (Grant Halverson/Getty Images)

"Like I recognize the full if you privation to accidental it’s not safe, shot isn’t a harmless crippled to play. So I cognize we’re trying to marque it safer oregon whatever, similar it is what it is," Kelce said during a caller occurrence of "New Heights."

"I deliberation it’s a shot benignant of play, it’s a toughness play that you request to beryllium successful sync with the guys adjacent to you and the guys astir you and that’s connected some sides of the ball. I don’t deliberation we request to beryllium banning this."

Former Philadelphia Eagles halfway Jason Kelce, who ran the tush propulsion with Jalen Hurts and Co., does not judge the play leads to an summation successful injury. 

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Travis Kelce looks on

Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce gives his gloves to a instrumentality pursuing a crippled against the Cleveland Browns astatine Huntington Bank Field. (Scott Galvin-Imagn Images)

"For maine personally, I ne'er felt similar there’s that overmuch much of a hazard of injuring idiosyncratic connected the play and I don’t deliberation there’s immoderate statistic to backmost that up. So anybody saying that it’s going to pb to much injuries is axenic conjecture, not rooted successful fact. I deliberation the lone statement I spot for perchance banning it is, is determination a competitory advantage?" Jason said. 

"Like the play sucks to run. But it sucks due to the fact that of similar an exertion, similar an vigor level, it takes truthful overmuch to effort and get a yard. It’s not a high-impact collision. There’s not, for the astir part, radical don’t adjacent get rolled up connected due to the fact that you’re keeping your feet moving. It’s not going to beryllium a play, successful my opinion, wherever you’re going to spot this immense summation successful accidental of hazard of injury. I don’t deliberation it’s truly that unsafe from a wellness perspective."

Jason said that if the play does get banned, helium expects the Eagles to inactive person a batch of occurrence moving a accepted backmost sneak. 

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Jason Kelce looks on

Jason Kelce connected the ESPN postseason countdown acceptable during the 2025 Pro Bowl Games astatine Camping World Stadium. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

Travis questioned what different accepted shot plays could beryllium banned adjacent if the tush propulsion is deemed illegal. 

"How acold down the enactment does it go> Are players connected the defence not allowed to clasp guys up present to effort and person idiosyncratic travel successful and get a strip? At what constituent are we conscionable going to fto shot beryllium football?" Travis said.

In May, the owners volition reconvene and find the destiny of the tush push, and whether shot volition beryllium football. 

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