Super Bowl champ suggests Travis Kelce not completely focused on football after latest quiet game

Travis Kelce astir had nary effect connected the Kansas City Chiefs’ discourtesy connected Sunday during the team’s 22-17 triumph implicit the Atlanta Falcons.

It took 2 afloat quarters earlier Kelce caught a pass. He finished with 4 catches connected 5 targets for 30 yards, but he’s failed to find the extremity portion successful the archetypal 3 games of the season.

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Falcons information Jessie Bates III breaks up a walk intended for Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta connected Sept. 22, 2024. (Brett Davis-Imagn Images)

Rodney Harrison, a two-time Super Bowl champion who is presently an expert connected NBC, made a stark admittance astir Kelce.

"He’s busy, he’s got a batch connected his plate," Harrison said. "You deliberation astir it, he’s doing a batch of antithetic things media-wise, he’s playing football, he’s got different things going on. It’s a batch of worldly going on. But erstwhile you’re successful that situation, you got to absorption connected everything else, and you got to absorption 100% connected shot and that’s the main responsibility.

"Guys making plays connected him, you spot Jessie Bates did a heck of a occupation connected him tonight. He conscionable doesn’t person the aforesaid speed. He’s a bully subordinate still. I don’t judge he’s a great, large player."

NBC Sports broadcaster Rodney Harrison during the crippled betwixt the Los Angeles Chargers and the Buffalo Bills astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood, California, connected Dec. 23, 2023. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)

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Kelce’s demeanor connected the sideline drew interest from Taylor Swift fans.

Patrick Mahomes remarked connected Kelce seemingly being absent from the crippled plan.

"The respect origin they person for Travis is conscionable unreal," helium said of different teams. "It’s well-deserved, but we're calling a batch of plays for Travis, and it's similar 2 oregon 3 radical are going to him. So, I mean, helium understands. I deliberation that's the large happening astir him is helium wants to marque an interaction connected the game, but helium wants to triumph astatine the extremity of the day. 

"I'm going to effort to bash my champion to support feeding him the shot whenever he's there, whenever he's open. But I deliberation the much Rashee [Rice] makes plays, the much we're capable to tally the football, the much we tin get [Xavier] Worthy involved, that's going to unfastened Travis up more. I mean, radical are truly emphasizing trying to instrumentality him distant and it’s getting different guys open."

Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce talks to Falcons agelong snapper Liam McCullough aft a crippled astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta connected Sept. 22, 2024. (Brett Davis-Imagn Images)

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The 34-year-old choky extremity has been targeted lone 12 times successful the archetypal 3 games. It’s the 2nd astir connected the team, arsenic Rashee Rice has had 29 targets. Kelce has 8 catches for 69 yards.

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