Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce says he’ll “take a while” earlier than deciding whether or not to retire from the NFL following his facet’s Tremendous Bowl defeat to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Kelce starred within the Chiefs’ first 2025 playoff sport in opposition to the Houston Texans however struggled in a victory over the Buffalo Payments earlier than failing to make an affect because the Eagles delivered a dominant 40-22 victory in New Orleans on Sunday.

The 35-year-old spoke candidly about his future in the course of the newest episode New Heights, the podcast he seems on along with his brother – and former NFL star – Jason Kelce.

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“I do know all people desires to know whether or not or not I am taking part in subsequent 12 months. And proper now, I am simply kicking every little thing down the highway,” Kelce mentioned.

“I am kicking each can I can down the highway and I am not making any loopy selections.

“Proper now, the largest factor is simply being there for my team-mates and being there for my coaches, understanding that there is a lot that goes into this factor.”

Kelce, together with quarterback Patrick Mahomes, have been the centrepieces of a outstanding run for the Chiefs that has seen them attain seven successive AFC Championship video games.

On Sunday they had been going for a historic third successive Tremendous Bowl victory – and a fourth title in six years.

Kelce, whose star has solely grown since he started courting popstar Taylor Swift in 2023, admits the Chiefs’ unimaginable success has taken a toll on him.

He mentioned: “I have been lucky over the previous five-six years, I’ve performed extra soccer than anyone and it is as a result of the folks which are in that constructing and the truth that we preserve going to those AFC Championships and these Tremendous Bowls.

“Meaning I am taking part in an additional three video games greater than all people else in your complete league. And that is lots of put on and tear in your physique. And it is lots of time spent within the constructing focusing in your craft, specializing in the duty at hand, each problem that you simply arrange for your self.

“And that course of will be gruelling. It may weigh on you. It may make you higher and it could drive you loopy on the similar time.

“And proper now, it is a kind of issues the place it was form of driving me loopy this 12 months. And I believe that it occurs as you form of tail off in direction of the again 9 of your profession.”

After accumulating 117 receiving yards and scoring a landing in opposition to the Texans, Kelce managed only a whole of six catches for 58 yards within the last two video games of the Chiefs’ marketing campaign.

These numbers represented a major drop-off from final 12 months’s post-season, when he performed a key position in every of the 4 wins that took the Chiefs to Tremendous Bowl glory.

He added: “As you see your self or not really feel your self have the success that you simply as soon as used to have, man, it is a robust capsule to swallow.

“After which on prime of that, to not be there within the greatest moments, realizing your group’s relying on you, man. These are all extraordinarily arduous issues. It is only a robust actuality.

“I believe I will take a while to determine it out. And I believe I owe it to my team-mates that if I do come again, that it will be one thing that… it is a wholehearted choice, I am not half-assing it, I am totally right here for them.

“I believe I can play. It is simply whether or not or not I am motivated or it is the most effective choice for me as a person, as a human, as a as an individual to tackle all that duty.”