Travis Kelce told to RETIRE by analysts and fans amid career-worst stats, Taylor Swift controversy and TV distractions

NFL analysts and fans are adamant Travis Kelce is hurtling towards status aft his latest show continued the worst signifier of his NFL career.

Kelce played a peripheral relation again connected Sunday nighttime arsenic the Kansas City Chiefs extended their cleanable commencement to the play to 3-0 with a 22-17 triumph implicit the Atlanta Falcons.

The 34-year-old, whose woman Taylor Swift missed a crippled for the archetypal clip this season, was caught by TV cameras looking peculiarly miserable connected the sideline successful a clip which went viral.

Kelce, a three-time Super Bowl champion, lone had 4 catches for 30 yards successful Atlanta arsenic his sluggish commencement to the play continued aft akin performances against the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals. 

NBC's pb expert Cris Collinsworth admitted helium was 'flabbergasted' by Kelce connected Sunday night, having besides watched him conflict successful week 1 against the Ravens.

He said connected commentary: 'I'm conscionable flabbergasted. I mean, 1 game, large deal. Two games, alright. 

'This is the 3rd crippled present wherever we person not seen the magic of (Patrick) Mahomes and Kelce, and I can't truly explicate that one.'

Rodney Harrison, different NBC analyst, blamed Kelce's latest lackluster show connected his different commitments. 

He said: 'He's busy. He's got a batch connected his plate. 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. 

'When you're successful that concern you've got to hide astir everything other and absorption 100 per cent connected football. That's the main responsibility.

'Guys are making plays connected him. Jesse Bates did a heck of a occupation connected him tonight.

'He (Kelce) conscionable doesn't person the aforesaid speed. He's a bully subordinate inactive but I don't judge he's a great, large player.'

Kelce's statistic successful examination to caller years amusement an evident downturn successful performance.

After his archetypal 3 games successful 2023, Kelce had recorded 17 receptions for 152 yards and 2 touchdowns.

He opened the 2022 play with 17 receptions for 230 yards and 2 touchdowns crossed his archetypal 3 games.

In the aforesaid play successful 2021, helium managed 20 receptions for 289 yards and 3 touchdowns. 

So acold this play he's yet to people and has lone managed 8 receptions for 69 yards, which is the lowest for immoderate three-game agelong of his full career.

Kelce's imaginable status was talked astir heavy towards the extremity of past season, particularly due to the fact that his member Jason - who is lone 2 years older - decided to locomotion distant from shot successful March.

But speaking earlier the commencement of this season, Kelce admitted shot gives him 'a purpose' and that helium would find it 'hard trying to fig retired erstwhile to telephone it quits'.

He said: 'I conscionable emotion shot and however it takes maine distant from beingness and it gives maine thing I tin consciousness genuinely blessed about.

'I bask coming successful the building, moving connected my craft, getting to recognize a caller crippled program and perfecting that for the radical astir me. 

'It gives maine a intent to benignant of spell astir my time and to unrecorded my life, and I conscionable person truthful overmuch excitement doing it. It’s going to beryllium hard trying to fig retired erstwhile to telephone it quits oregon not.'

Kelce has surely started readying for beingness astir shot with his multitude of commercialized deals and fledgling vocation arsenic an histrion and TV presenter.

He volition prima successful an upcoming fearfulness bid connected FX titled 'Grotesquerie' and volition big 'Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?' that volition aerial connected Prime Video. He's besides been lined up for a portion successful the highly-anticipated 'Happy Gilmore' sequel with Adam Sandler.

The Wall Street Journal revealed successful December that Kelce had featured successful a staggering 375 commercials broadcast during shot games. That was the astir of immoderate subordinate successful the NFL.

His deals, which scope from Pfizer to Campbell Soup and Pepsi, were mostly each signed earlier his love-life was thrown into the nationalist oculus but WSJ claimed galore of the sponsors rushed guardant the merchandise of the Kelce commercials to coincide with his caller level of fame.

Kelce besides precocious penned a $100million woody with Amazon for his wildly fashionable 'New Heights' podcast that helium does with member Jason.

Fans watching Sunday night's crippled flocked to societal media to suggest the crippled is up for Kelce.

One wrote: 'Travis Kelce looks similar he’s acceptable for retirement. The regression is crazy!'

A 2nd posted: 'I hatred that Taylor Swift has ruined Travis Kelce's NFL career. He's excessively distracted... Time for him to discontinue truthful helium tin absorption connected his miss and podcast. Time to determination on'.

A 3rd added: 'Travis Kelce needs to get his caput backmost connected shot oregon retire. He hasn’t had a azygous treble digit crippled this season. Time to beryllium gone.' 

'The Chiefs proving 3 games successful a enactment that Travis is worthless to the team. Rice should beryllium getting his salary,' different shared. 

One instrumentality brutally posted: 'Taylor Swift really ruined Travis Kelce lmaoo Just discontinue Travis, your bosom isn’t successful it anymore small feline and you’ll ne'er beryllium similar Gronk.' 

Kelce's latest off-night came aft woman Swift failed to marque an quality astatine a Chiefs crippled for the archetypal clip this season.

The popular megastar was obscurity to beryllium seen successful Atlanta contempt her escaped docket arsenic she enjoys a interruption from her planetary Eras Tour. 

On Saturday Swift was spotted connected a lowkey nighttime retired with BFF Gigi Hadid in New York City, wherever she rocked a plaid miniskirt as they grabbed a wound to devour astatine The Corner Store edifice successful SoHo.

The mates are said to beryllium 'way much rattled than they fto on' by the breakup 'contract' that appeared earlier this period and suggested a divided was imminent.

Kelce's representatives were forced to contradict that the mates had plans to spell their abstracted ways aft a papers written connected the headed insubstantial of his US PR institution was dispersed online.

It outlined a expected program to merchandise an authoritative connection astatine the extremity of this period – 3 days 'post-break up' to 'allow the archetypal media frenzy to settee and guarantee clarity'.

The paperwork stated the announcement would absorption connected Kelce's 'personal growth' by framing the breakup arsenic a 'natural portion of life'. It would besides item his 'commitment to his vocation and his ongoing achievements successful the sports industry.'

After their opening crippled of the season, Kelce and Swift flew backmost to New York unneurotic for a romanticist weekend.

They dined retired astatine celebrated Brooklyn edifice Lucali, attended the US Open men's last with Patrick and Brittany Mahomes and besides were guests astatine the wedding of exemplary Karen Elson.

Perhaps the clearest denotation of Kelce's tumbling enactment successful shot close present is that his loudest supporters look to beryllium Taylor Swift's loyal legion of fans. 

The criticism, successful peculiar from Harrison, drew a furious absorption from Swifties and they took to societal media to support him.

One posted: 'This is specified a bs talking point. Because if you really paid attraction to Trav, he's 150% locked successful connected football.

'Outside of the podcast (that helium films connected his disconnected day), we bash not spot him. All of the "stuff" you spot him progressive with was done during the disconnected season. I'm tired.'

Another tagged Harrison into their station and wrote: '@Rodney_Harrison I spot you person a family, but what I don't spot if you saying that your woman is distracting you from your job. Keep Travis's idiosyncratic beingness distant from the game, oregon enactment yours into it.'

'There's nary way. Travis stays precocious astatine the installation getting much reps successful and they determine to accidental that', added a 3rd Swiftie.

Other fans blamed Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes and manager Andy Reid for not getting the shot to Kelce.

A instrumentality said: 'And they commencement blaming his offseason worldly again, nary 1 talks astir however Mahomes doesn't springiness him the shot erstwhile he's open.'

Another added: '"He doesn't person the aforesaid speed" and yet he's getting unfastened each play and successfully blocking. I'm done'.

Mahomes claimed afterwards that Kelce's sum by opponents is making it hard to get the shot to him. 

The backmost said: 'I mean the respect origin they person for Travis is inactive unreal and it's good deserved. 

'We're calling a batch of plays for Travis and it's similar 2 oregon 3 radical are going to him.

'He understands. That's the large happening astir him. He wants to marque an interaction connected the crippled but helium wants to triumph astatine the extremity of the day.

'I'm going to effort and bash my champion to support feeding him the shot whenever he's there, whenever he's open.

'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, I deliberation that's going to unfastened up Travis more. 

'People are truly emphasizing trying to instrumentality him distant and it's getting different guys open.'