The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ famous person tight finish Travis Kelce and his older brother — former Philadelphia Eagles heart Jason Kelce — host a weekly podcast known as “New Heights.” The title is an homage to the Cleveland Heights neighborhood by which they grew up.
One week faraway from the NFL Draft, the Kelce brothers took the time to share their ideas on it — and Travis spoke about his revised two-year contract with the Chiefs and his upcoming Amazon Prime sport present “Are You Smarter Than a Superstar.”
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1. Travis will get the bag
“The Massive Yeti” — whom it’s possible you’ll know as Travis Kelce — is now the NFL’s highest-paid tight finish. His two-year, $34.25 million deal replaces the ultimate two years of his earlier Kansas Metropolis contract — and barely edges out New York Giants tight finish Darren Waller’s contract, which averaged $17 million per yr.
On this week’s episode, Travis expressed his gratitude to the staff’s normal supervisor, president and head coach — and, after all, its chairman and CEO.
“I’m so grateful to Brett Veach, Mark Donovan, Coach Reid — Massive Purple, I like you, massive man — and clearly Clark Hunt,” he mentioned. “The Hunt household has been completely fantastic not solely to myself [but] this Kansas Metropolis neighborhood. They’ve simply been so beneficiant since I’ve been right here — and making it really feel like residence… I’ve cherished each single second of it.”
Travis by no means desires his contract negotiations to be a distraction to the staff.
“I’m not a man that sits out,” he declared proudly. “I’m not a man that holds out. I’m a man that loves coming into the constructing — and the Chiefs know that.”
He additionally mentioned it meant quite a bit to him that the staff was keen to reward him with out negotiations changing into acrimonious.
2. Drafting the NFL’s quickest participant
Travis accepted of the Chiefs’ first-round choice: Texas huge receiver Xavier Worthy.
“Once you activate the movie,” he famous, “on the sector, his velocity interprets.”
As others have mentioned, Kelce believes Worthy is a multifaceted receiver.
“He’s catching the ball, he’s fearless going over the center, he’s a punt returner,” he noticed. “You’ve acquired to have somewhat little bit of fearlessness in case you’re going to be that quick taking part in soccer. Getting hit at speeds like that may be a little harmful.”
3. Patrick Mahomes threw to Jared Wiley earlier than the draft
Travis is among the many Chiefs’ pass-catchers who make it some extent to work out with their quarterback (and Mahomes’ private coach Jeff Christiansen) through the offseason.
“I all the time get all the way down to Texas this time of yr,” he defined, “to attempt to throw with Pat and get issues going once more — get the engine fired up once more.”
Besides this yr, Kelce wasn’t the one tight finish on the observe discipline.
“Our latest draft choose was down there,” revealed Travis. “He was undrafted at this level once I met him — and I used to be operating round with him — however [the team] ended up selecting him within the fourth spherical: Jared Wiley out of TCU.”
It’s common for Mahomes to work with a Chiefs participant earlier than the staff drafts them. Final yr, Mahomes labored out with the staff’s eventual second-round choose: huge receiver Rashee Rice.
It solely is smart. The staff may as nicely have the quarterback’s suggestions on a possible draftee — and know whether or not the 2 of them have chemistry.
Travis known as Wiley “an enormous dude” who was “down there having enjoyable — and looking out good.”
