Travis Kelce credits Taylor Swift for helping motivate his return to the Chiefs

Travis Kelce credited his fiancée, Taylor Swift, for helping motivate his reported instrumentality to the Kansas City Chiefs for a 14th season.

Kelce, 36, said seeing Swift’s continued thrust to marque caller euphony portion having "love and joy" erstwhile doing it was motivating.

"We stock the aforesaid emotion for what we do, and we’ve had this, fortunately we’ve had this tendency since we were kids successful our selective professions. It’s astonishing to spot her support going to the table, support uncovering caller things to constitute about, support uncovering caller melodies connected apical of that, inactive seeing her person that emotion and joyousness successful what she does," Kelce said during a caller quality connected ESPN’s "The Pat McAfee Show."

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are seen successful NoHo successful New York, New York, connected Nov. 6, 2025. (Aeon/GC Images)

"Yeah, of people that’s motivating. That’s motivating for anybody to see, fto unsocial my fiancée and knowing that I’m going done thing wherever I’m trying to fig retired precisely what the aboriginal holds for me. Something similar that decidedly motivates maine to say, ‘You cognize what, I’m not done either.’ I inactive got immoderate ideas successful the backmost of my caput and inactive got immoderate foodstuff to play this game."

The 11-time Pro Bowler said that his clip spent mulling implicit status was beauteous "short and brief."

"Yeah, I’m not going to lie, it was beauteous abbreviated and brief. The Chiefs knew wherever I was the full clip connected it. I deliberation you ever request to instrumentality a measurement back, breathe, fto the emotions of the play settee down and spot wherever the assemblage is," Kelce said.

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement successful August.  (TheStewartofNY/GC Images)

"I’m inactive successful emotion with this game. I inactive emotion going to work, putting connected the pads, grinding it retired and playing the game."

The three-time Super Bowl champion said his champion accidental to play was to instrumentality to the Chiefs. He said determination are a batch of pieces successful the gathering that helium loves and helium can’t hold to get backmost successful the building.

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Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce (87) warms up anterior to the crippled against the Dallas Cowboys astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas, connected Nov. 27, 2025. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)

The Chiefs went 6-11 and missed the playoffs for the archetypal clip successful a decade. Kelce, however, was inactive productive, catching 76 passes for 851 yards and 5 touchdowns. His 76 catches were the sixth-most among choky ends, and his 851 yards were 4th astatine the position.

Kelce said the squad needs to beryllium hungrier than they’ve ever been earlier and that the Chiefs perceive each the sound surrounding them aft their lackluster season.

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