Chiefs' Travis Kelce says he will be a 'regular human' for a couple weeks before making retirement decision

Travis Kelce has a status determination to mull over, but first, the Kansas City Chiefs prima plans connected putting his feet up and being a human.

Kelce, 36, said helium plans connected taking a mates of weeks, possibly a month, to measurement distant earlier coming to a determination connected his playing future.

"Every play ends for me, I enactment my feet up, and I conscionable beryllium a quality due to the fact that I’ve been putting my assemblage done the ringer for the emotion of it. I bash bask playing shot and the carnal facet of it, I deliberation there’s thing astir feeling the deterioration and teardrop of the shot play to conscionable f------ getting acceptable for a crippled knowing that your assemblage is f------ bushed down man. I deliberation there’s thing to it, makes you consciousness similar a mangy carnal that conscionable is f------ retired present conscionable uncovering a mode to past and I conscionable f------ emotion that s---," Kelce said during a caller occurrence of "New Heights."

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Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce heads disconnected the tract pursuing an NFL shot crippled against the Las Vegas Raiders successful Las Vegas, connected Jan. 4, 2026. (David Becker/AP Photo)

"But yeah, I deliberation conscionable being a regular quality for a mates weeks, possibly a period oregon so, and trying to fig retired what I’m doing to bash adjacent successful presumption of my aboriginal successful football."

While the Chiefs missed the playoffs for the archetypal clip since 2014, Kelce was productive. He was named to his 11th Pro Bowl aft signaling 76 catches for 851 yards and 5 touchdowns.

The four-time All-Pro said helium has spoken to radical successful the Chiefs gathering and that they cognize wherever helium stands close now.

"I’ve talked to a fewer radical successful the installation already having the exit meetings and everything and they cognize wherever I basal astatine slightest close now. I deliberation there’s a batch of emotion for the crippled that’s inactive determination and I don’t deliberation I’ll ever suffer that," Kelce said.

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Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs looks connected during the National Anthem anterior to the crippled against the Las Vegas Raiders astatine Allegiant Stadium connected Jan. 4, 2026, successful Las Vegas, Nevada.  (Ian Maule/Getty Images)

"I don’t know, it’s a pugnacious happening to navigate, but astatine the aforesaid clip I deliberation if my assemblage tin heal up and remainder up and I tin consciousness assured that I tin spell retired determination and springiness it different 18, 20, 21-week run, I deliberation I would bash it successful a heartbeat. I deliberation close present it’s conscionable uncovering that reply and seeing however the assemblage feels aft this crippled and erstwhile it each settles down."

The prima choky extremity called the Chiefs’ play "tough," saying it’s an embarrassing feeling to miss the playoffs.

"It’s benignant of an embarrassing feeling, but you support it moving," Kelce said. "I’m inactive a instrumentality of the crippled and I inactive emotion the game. So I’ll beryllium tuned successful passim the playoffs."

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Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce waves to fans arsenic helium walks disconnected the tract aft an NFL shot crippled against the Tennessee Titans, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, successful Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/John Amis)

Kelce said helium plans to walk clip with friends and household implicit the adjacent month. If helium decides to retire, helium volition spell down arsenic 1 of the top choky ends successful NFL past and arsenic a fastener to marque the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

In 192 vocation games, Kelce caught 1,080 passes for 13,002 yards for 82 touchdowns. No subordinate successful NFL past has caught much passes successful the playoffs than Kelce, who hauled successful 178 passes for 2,078 yards and 20 touchdowns successful the postseason.

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