Travis Kelce admits Kansas City Chiefs injury is 'dagger' in blow to Super Bowl hopes

The Kansas City Chiefs person started the defence of their Super Bowl rubric successful awesome fashion, winning 4 of their opening 5 games, but suffered a stroke with the nonaccomplishment of Rashee Rice

Travis Kelce has shared his worries astir teammate Rashee Rice's limb injury, describing the infinitesimal arsenic a "huge dagger" for him. The Kansas City Chiefs are pushing for an bonzer "Three-peat" aft capturing 4 wins astatine the commencement of the NFL play but Rice's wounded comes arsenic a existent blow.

In their astir caller triumph against the Los Angeles Chargers, the wounded to Rice posed a acheronian unreality implicit the victory, with the 24-year-old being taken disconnected the tract connected a cart following a astonishment clash with teammate Patrick Mahomes that near him successful noticeable agony.

Rice, a cardinal fig successful the Chiefs' discourtesy and presently ranking precocious successful receiving yards and receptions, has since been enactment connected the injured reserve database and is acceptable to beryllium retired for a minimum of 4 games.

Kelce, who is profoundly alert of Rice's value to the team, expressed his unease during the "New Heights" podcast, co-hosted with his member Jason Kelce. Discussing the situation ahead, helium highlighted Rice's important relation by saying: On the violative broadside of the ball, we've got to get rolling, antheral and it's not going to beryllium immoderate easier seeing Rashee (Rice) spell down during the game.

"I conscionable emotion the mode that feline was playing the crippled of football, however helium was attacking each azygous time successful practice," helium continued. "Sometimes you conscionable basal truthful hard for the guys that bash it the close way, and Rashee had been doing that, man. It was a immense dagger to maine erstwhile I saw him spell down.

"Outside of that, recovered a mode to get the shot successful the extremity portion late, moving the hellhole retired of the ball. Our violative enactment is our biggest limb close now, those guys up beforehand are [...] paving the way, choky ends included with Noah Gray and my feline J (Jared) Wiley coming in, wide receivers doing their job, and the tally game.

"You've gotta find a mode to triumph shot games, and sometimes it takes those small things that don't get the item each the time. Wide receivers going successful and digging retired safeties for an other four, 5 yards. Running backs moving their tails off, getting those other two, 3 yards."

In the coming weeks, the Chiefs volition look the San Francisco 49ers, earlier clashes with the Las Vegas Raiders, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Denver Broncos. The grade of the wounded to Rice has not yet been disclosed but helium volition play nary portion successful immoderate of those games.