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 learn about it.
“I most likely would not take heed to them in the event that they did,” Kelce stated, maybe joking and maybe not.
Both means, Kelce stated 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 stated. “You study issues from the errors you made in years previous and issues like that. You simply always preserve getting higher and preserve getting extra conscious of the place your physique’s at.
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“I am excited. I get to play one other 12 months of soccer [with a] contemporary 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 degree.”
Kelce joined the Chiefs in 2013 as a third-round draft decide. Regardless of having a broadening selection of profession choices past soccer, which embody appearing roles and a take care of Amazon’s Wondery reportedly value greater than $100 million for the “New Heights” podcast he hosts together with his brother Jason, Kelce stated 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 stated. “It offers me one thing I can really feel genuinely joyful 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 individuals round me. [It] offers 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 everyone will get that very same fortune of their profession and I am able to rock Week 1 and I am grateful for it.”
