Travis Kels.
Jamie Squire/Getty ImagesTravis Kels will return to Kansas City Chiefs for the NFL 2025-2026 season, according to a text read on ESPN’s air Pat MacafiS
On Thursday, February 26th, an episode of The Pat McAfee ShowA text from the 35 -year -old Kels was read by the 37 -year -old Macafi after the former Indianapolis Colts player reached for his future in the league.
“My Daug !!! I’m coming back for sure, “the text from the Kels claims to read. “I will try to get to the best shape I have been out of season and return to the mountain. I got a real bad taste in my mouth with how I played in the last game and how I prepared the boys for battle. “
Kels and the chiefs were Destroyed 40-22 by Philadelphia Eagles At Super Bowl Lix on February 9th.
The text continued: “I can’t go out like this !!!!”
Kels was prepared by the chiefs in 2013. In 12 seasons with the team he has broke multiple records and won three Super Bowls in 2020, 2023 and 2024.
After The devastating loss of Super Bowl’s to the Eagles, Kels nourished retirement rumorsS
“I know everyone wants to know if I play next year and right now just kicking everything along the way,” he said during the episode on February 12th to his brother and brother Jason Kels Podcated “New Heights”. “Don’t make crazy decisions, but at the moment the biggest thing is just to be there for my teammates and to be there for my coaches, I understand that there are many things that come into this thing.”
He continued: “You know, I had happiness in the last five, six years – I have played more football than everyone. And this is because the people who are in this building and the fact that we continue to go to these AFC Championships and those Super Bowls, this means that I play an additional three matches more than everyone else in the whole league. It is a lot of wear on your body and it is a lot of time spent in the building, focusing on your craft, focusing on the task that is located … and this process can be exhausting. Can weigh for you. “
Travis noted that the extra time on the pitch “can make you better and it could drive you crazy at the same time”, admitting that “this was driving me this year.”
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“I think this is happening because you are descending to the back of your career … As you see yourself or do not feel yourself, have the success you have ever had, man, it’s a difficult pill to swallow,” he said. “And then on top of everything, so I don’t be there at the biggest moments, knowing Your team relies on you … It’s just a difficult reality. “
Kels – whose last few years have been a whirlwind because of his success with the superiors and its relationship with Taylor swift – stressed that he would not rush to his decision.
“I think it will take me some time to understand it,” he said. “I think I owe it to my teammates that if I come back, it will be something that is a complete solution and I’m not half. I am completely here for them and I think I could play, but only whether I am motivated or not, or that is the best solution for me as a person, as a person, as a person to take all this responsibility. “
