Travis Kelce concerns become unavoidable with Taylor Swift nowhere to be seen

Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce turned successful yet different underwhelming show during the team's triumph implicit the Atlanta Falcons connected Sunday

Travis Kelce, the choky extremity for Kansas City Chiefs, delivered different disappointing show against the Atlanta Falcons, continuing his aboriginal play struggles.

In Sunday's match, the Chiefs narrowly secured a 22-17 triumph implicit the Falcons connected their location turf, maintaining an unblemished 3-0 grounds for the season. However, Kelce contributed small to the Chiefs' success, ending the crippled with conscionable 4 catches for 30 yards.

To marque matters worse, this yardage was astir a season-high, 2nd lone to the 34 yards helium gained successful the aerial against the Baltimore Ravens successful Week 1. He was incapable to adjacent surpass that lowly figure, with concerns implicit his diminution present becoming unavoidable successful the aboriginal stages of the season.

Kelce's lacklustre beingness connected the tract was further highlighted by the lack of his biggest fan. Taylor Swift was noticeably missing from the assemblage astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium, arsenic the NBC broadcast failed to amusement the vocalist successful the stands and determination was nary grounds of her arriving astatine the stadium.

Sunday night's lucifer marked the archetypal Chiefs crippled this twelvemonth that Swift did not attend. The popular superstar had antecedently been spotted cheering connected her fellow astatine Arrowhead Stadium during the Chiefs' archetypal 2 victories of the play against the Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals.

Despite Taylor Swift's lack from the action, the Chiefs honoured the popular prima earlier the crippled got underway. In a cheeky notation to Swifts affectionate words for NFL prima Travis Kelce during her MTV Video Music Awards speech, Kansas City took to societal media to stock a drawback of Kelce with the caption: "Happiness. Fun. Magic."

The commencement of the play has been little than stellar for Kelce, who's usually known for his on-field prowess. The 34-year-old choky extremity has hauled successful a specified 4 catches crossed the archetypal mates of games, accumulating conscionable 39 yards and nary trips to the endzone.

His output was particularly disheartening against the Cincinnati Bengals successful Week 2, wherever helium finished with conscionable 1 drawback for 5 yards and a solitary rushing effort that gained a meagre yard.

However, Kelce is staying level-headed contempt the vexation of a dilatory start. Speaking connected the New Heights Podcast, helium remarked, "There's a batch of things that person to spell close for anyone to get the ball," recognizing the quality of the crippled has led to his reduced figures recently. "These past 2 games it hasn't gone that mode for me. That's football, man.

"I'm not going to beryllium present and get frustrated. I utilized to get really, truly [...] disconnected and astir suffer my chill a batch of the clip from not having that success, knowing I request that retired of myself and I conscionable similar to play the crippled to specified a precocious level of accountability that it's pugnacious for maine to woody with being mediocre oregon having stats that correspond that."

At this signifier successful his NFL career, Kelce revealed that helium nary longer focuses connected his statistics. "I stopped caring astir stats astir 4 oregon 5 years agone and I conscionable went retired determination and started to conscionable play escaped and wanted to play for my guys, and definite capable I deliberation that's a amended mentality," helium said.