Travis Kelce admits he is considering retiring after Chiefs Super Bowl defeat... as he explains reasons why

Travis Kelce admits helium is weighing up the anticipation of status pursuing the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl drubbing connected Sunday night.

The Chiefs are inactive reeling from their 40-22 defeat to Philadelphia Eagles successful New Orleans, which saw them neglect to go the archetypal squad successful past to propulsion disconnected a celebrated three-peat.

With woman Taylor Swift watching connected astatine Caesars Superdome, Kelce endured a miserable nighttime connected an idiosyncratic enactment aft going mostly anonymous successful the game, starring to aggravated speculation implicit his aboriginal successful the NFL.

And connected Wednesday's occurrence of his and member Jason's New Heights podcast, the 35-year-old revealed helium is considering bowing retired from football.

He initially told Jason: 'I cognize everybody wants to cognize whether oregon not I'm playing adjacent year, and close present I'm conscionable kicking everything down the road. I'm kicking each tin I tin down the road.

'I'm not making immoderate brainsick decisions [yet]. Right present the biggest happening is conscionable being determination for my teammates and being determination for my coaches, knowing there's a batch that goes into this thing.'

The legendary choky extremity went connected to mention 'wear and tear' aft 12 agelong seasons successful the NFL arsenic a crushed wherefore helium is contemplating hanging up his cleats.

'The information that we support going to these AFC Championships and these Super Bowls, that means I'm playing an other 3 games than everybody other successful the full league,' helium explained.

'That's a batch of deterioration and teardrop connected your assemblage and it's a batch of clip spent successful the building, focusing connected your craft, focusing connected the task astatine hand, each situation that you acceptable up for yourself. That process tin beryllium grueling, it tin measurement connected you.

'It tin marque you amended [but] it tin thrust you brainsick astatine the aforesaid time, and close present it's 1 of those things wherever it was benignant of driving maine brainsick this year. It happens erstwhile you benignant of process disconnected towards the backmost 9 of your career. When you consciousness yourself not person the occurrence that you utilized to have, it's a pugnacious pill to swallow.

'And past connected apical of that to not beryllium determination successful the biggest moments, knowing your team's counting connected you man... it's conscionable a pugnacious reality.'

'I'm gonna instrumentality immoderate clip to fig it out,' helium continued. 'And I deliberation I beryllium it to my teammates that if I bash travel backmost that it's gonna beryllium a wholehearted determination and I'm not half-a**ing it, and I'm afloat present for them.

'I deliberation I tin play, it's conscionable whether oregon not I'm motivated oregon it's the champion determination for maine arsenic a man, arsenic a human, arsenic a idiosyncratic to instrumentality connected each that responsibility.'

Kelce, wide considered 1 of the top choky ends successful NFL history, recorded conscionable 4 catches for 39 yards arsenic the Chiefs came disconnected 2nd champion to the Eagles.

Retirement was a changeless taxable of his 2024 season, with galore suggesting the extremity is adjacent erstwhile helium enactment up immoderate of the worst regular-season numbers of his career.

Fans and analysts tipped the NFL seasoned to locomotion distant from shot successful bid to walk much prime clip with Swift, arsenic good arsenic propulsion himself into much TV and movie opportunities distant from the sport.

Jason, who retired himself past twelvemonth aft 13 seasons with the Eagles, told his younger brother: 'It sucks erstwhile you get to this constituent successful your vocation erstwhile it becomes harder and harder to bash it. There's a physicality that becomes much hard to manage, there's a intelligence attack that becomes much hard to manage, due to the fact that a batch of the clip it's conscionable stocked connected apical of the carnal discomfort and things that are happening.

'To bash it close you person to beryllium committed and you person to enactment the clip in, and you person to beryllium each in. And it's hard to motion up for that, due to the fact that you cognize what it takes. You've been present 3 years successful a row, you've been to this crippled aggregate times, you've had an astonishing magnitude of success.

'It's frustrating erstwhile you're getting older successful your vocation and you cognize that that's becoming harder and harder to do, and much and much grueling to spell through. So instrumentality your time, evidently get distant from everything for a while.'

Travis went connected to add: 'This athletics tin humble you truthful fast, man. It tin springiness you truthful overmuch praise, it tin sprout you to the moon, and it tin hide you man. It tin perfectly hide you.

'It's the concern we chose and not everything tin spell arsenic planned sometimes.'

After proceeding his comments, fans fearfulness Kelce is present destined to bring the curtain down connected his career, with 1 penning connected X: 'The wheels are falling off. My bosom breaks for trav, each his beingness helium has worked hard to get wherever he’s at.'

'As a agelong clip instrumentality of shot this sounds similar status is coming truthful sad,' said another.

A 3rd came to the conclusion: 'He's done 10000%'.

While 1 simply wrote: 'Yeah, he’s gone'.

As helium weighs up retirement, reports suggest Kelce plans to instrumentality a interruption with Swift and bask immoderate downtime unneurotic aft the Super Bowl.

His narration with the popular prima is inactive said to beryllium going from strength-to-strength contempt an aggravated past twelvemonth for them some and a devastating effect for Travis connected Sunday night.

A root told People that aft Kelce's nonaccomplishment successful New Orleans, which has been described arsenic 'upsetting for everyone', the mates are readying a interruption together.

'Their lives person been a whirlwind since they archetypal started dating,' the root is quoted arsenic saying. 'Things look large betwixt them, and they’re incredibly blessed together.'

But arsenic for Kelce's future, the root lone said: 'She genuinely loves watching Travis play.'