KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If the Chiefs’ offense is altering as a concession to age this season for Travis Kelce, who will flip 35 in October, the veteran tight finish does not find out about it.
“I in all probability would not hearken to them in the event that they did,” Kelce mentioned, maybe joking and maybe not.
Both approach, Kelce mentioned he feels that he is as bodily prepared for a season as he has been in years.
“You get extra snug along with your physique,” Kelce mentioned. “You be taught issues from the errors you made in years previous and issues like that. You simply continuously preserve getting higher and preserve getting extra conscious of the place your physique’s at.
“I am excited. I get to play one other yr of soccer [with a] recent slate. Get to sort of show to ourselves and Chiefs Kingdom that we’re one of many prime canines and we are able to play at a excessive stage.”
Kelce joined the Chiefs in 2013 as a third-round draft decide. Regardless of having a broadening alternative of profession choices past soccer, which embrace appearing roles and a take care of Amazon’s Wondery reportedly value greater than $100 million for the “New Heights” podcast he hosts along with his brother Jason, Kelce mentioned he is misplaced none of his enthusiasm for soccer.
“I simply love coming in right here [and] I simply love soccer and the way it takes me away from life,” Kelce mentioned. “It provides me one thing I can really feel genuinely completely happy about. I get pleasure from coming into the constructing, engaged on my craft, getting to know a brand new sport plan and perfecting that for the folks round me. [It] provides me a objective to sort of go about my day and to reside my life and I’ve a lot pleasure doing it.
“I am ceaselessly lucky to have the ability to play as many video games as I’ve performed already on this league and that is why I actually get pleasure from going on the market each single day, even when it is only a apply to essentially work on my craft. I do know not all people will get that very same fortune of their profession and I am able to rock Week 1 and I am grateful for it.”
