Travis Kelce Addresses Potential Retirement Following Super Bowl Loss: 'I'm Not Making Any Crazy Decisions'

Travis’ brother, Jason, went through a similar experience at the end of his career. Five seasons after helping secure Philadelphia’s first-ever Super Bowl, Jason lost Super Bowl LVII to Travis and the Chiefs in his 12th year. While Kelce elected to return to Philadelphia on a one-year contract, he eventually announced his retirement weeks after their wild-card loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2023. “It sucks when you get to this point in the career,” Jason said in response to his brother’s thoughts on retirement. “It becomes harder and harder to do it. I think there’s a physicality that becomes more difficult to manage. There’s a mental approach that becomes more difficult to manage because a lot of times, it’s stocked on top of the physical discomfort and things that are happening.” Falling shy of the three-peat, Travis and Jason both addressed just how hard it is to keep a championship-caliber team together. Before thanking his teammates and coaches, Travis acknowledged that it would likely be his last time playing with most of this year’s Super Bowl team regardless of retirement status.

Coming off a Super Bowl performance where he was a nonfactor and his team was dominated by the Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce said he will take some time before making a decision on whether he will return for a 13th NFL season. "I know everybody wants to know whether I'm playing next year, and right now, I'm just kicking everything down the road. I'm kicking every can I can down the road. I'm not making any crazy decisions," Kelce said on the "New Heights" podcast.

Travis Kelce revealed where his thinking is at on his NFL future after the Chiefs were destroyed in Super Bowl 2025 by the Eagles. Kelce, 35, discussed the “wear and tear” his body has endured throughout his glittering, 12-year NFL career and acknowledged that retirement is a possibility on the “New Heights” podcast with his brother, Jason. “I know everybody wants to know whether I am playing next year and right now I am just kicking everything down the road. I am kicking every can I can down the road,” said Kelce, a three-time Super Bowl champ. “I am not making any crazy decisions, but right now the biggest thing is just being there for my teammates and being there for my coaches understanding there’s a lot that goes into this thing. I’ve been fortunate over the past five, six years, I’ve played more football than anybody…