Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce has began the 2024 season slower than what followers would have anticipated going into the yr.
After a ninth Professional Bowl season, Kelce has solely gotten seven targets and has 4 catches for 39 yards. He solely had one catch for 5 yards within the Chiefs’ win over the Cincinnati Bengals this previous weekend.
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce watch the U.S. Open on Sept. 8, 2024, in New York. (AP Photograph/Seth Wenig)
Kelce was harm within the first sport of the 2023 season. When he lastly bought on the sphere, he had 4 catches on 9 targets for 26 yards. He had a landing. In his second sport, he had seven catches on eight targets for 69 yards and likewise had one landing.
The 34-year-old star participant, who’s nearing his thirty fifth birthday, is wanting precisely like that – a 35-year-old soccer participant.
However is there one thing else accountable? ESPN persona Stephen A. Smith appeared to suppose so. He invoked Taylor Swift when speaking about Kelce’s efficiency on Monday’s “First Take.”
“I love my brother from another in Travis Kelce, but we saw more of Taylor Swift than we saw of Travis Kelce yesterday, on a Sunday afternoon,” Smith mentioned. “That wasn’t supposed to happen. We were supposed to see more of Travis Kelce yesterday than we saw of her.
Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and Patrick and Brittany Mahomes watch a match between Jannik Sinner and Taylor Fritz at the U.S. Open, Sept. 8, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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“That’s not taking place although. You’ve bought to get going, you’ve bought 39 receiving yards within the first two video games. Come on now. Soccer season is right here. Honeymoon’s over. Let’s deal with our enterprise, OK.”
It could be part of the game plan as well. Through the first two games, Kansas City’s tight ends have only been targeted 11 times – Kelce, Noah Gray and Jared Wiley all receiving the targets. The team has used Isiah Pacheco and Xavier Worthy as complements to Rashee Rice early in the year.
Chiefs coach Andy Reid was asked whether teams were doing more to take Kelce away.
“They did have some issues that they have been making an attempt there,” Reid said Monday. “He’ll get his catches. It’s not that he’s slowing down or any of that bit, that’s not what the deal is. It’s simply groups deal with him and sort of know (that) he’s been Pat’s (Mahomes) go-to man. What it’s accomplished although, Soren (Petro), is that it’s allowed us to make the most of the opposite guys round him they usually’ve been productive.”
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce catches a pass at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sept. 15, 2024. (Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images)
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But with Pacheco going down, one of the tight ends is going to need to step up more and get open for Patrick Mahomes.
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