Clark Hunt is rather like each NFL fan, ready to see what Travis Kelce will determine about his doable retirement — however the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs proprietor does have his personal dream situation for the tight finish.
“Properly as a corporation, we definitely hope that he’ll come again,” Hunt, 60, stated throughout an look on the Tuesday, January 27, episode of NFL Community’s Good Morning Soccer.
Hunt famous that Kelce, 36, had “one other nice 12 months” with the group even when it wasn’t “perhaps on par with the place he was 4 or 5 years in the past.”
The Chiefs CEO identified that Kelce nonetheless had over 800 yards for the 2025-2026 season and was “actually one of many leaders on the offensive facet of the ball for us.”
Hunt revealed, “So there’s little doubt in my thoughts that he can nonetheless play.”
Regardless of being assured in Kelce’s skills forward of the following season, Hunt stated the group doesn’t need to push him come what may.
“We’re making an attempt to be respectful and let him have the time that he must decide,” Hunt defined, including that Kelce “has type of a busy offseason arising along with his engagement and marriage [to Taylor Swift], so we need to be respectful and provides him the time he must decide. However we definitely hope that he’ll be again.”
Travis Kelce with the Hunt household. Christian Petersen/Getty Pictures
Clark is the son of Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt and his second spouse Norma Hunt. After Lamar died in 2006, Clark turned a co-owner of the NFL staff alongside his mom and siblings.
Because the CEO and chairman of the staff, Clark is without doubt one of the most public members of management — and has been a part of the Chiefs’ most up-to-date rise to greatness. Whereas in his present place, the Chiefs have made the playoffs 12 occasions, received the AFC West 11 occasions and appeared in 5 Tremendous Bowls, profitable three.
Kelce, for his half, has been on the staff for all three Tremendous Bowl championships. He was drafted to the Chiefs in 2013 because the 63rd total choose and has solely performed for the one group his whole NFL profession.
Whereas Kelce has three Tremendous Bowl rings to his identify, he and the Chiefs didn’t make the playoffs this season, which some followers assume will play a component in whether or not or not he retires through the offseason.
Perry Knotts/Getty Pictures Taylor Swift received over the complete Kansas Metropolis Chiefs group after she began courting tight finish Travis Kelce. “All people stayed away [and] simply let [Travis] do what he was doing,” beginning quarterback Patrick Mahomes stated throughout a December 2023 interview on CBS Mornings. “Then he began bringing Taylor round. He realized how […]
Kelce, in the meantime, has performed coy about what he plans to do as he and fiancée Swift, 36, plan their upcoming nuptials. (Kelce proposed in August 2025 after two years of courting the Grammy winner.)
“I’ve acquired a lot love for this staff, this group and the individuals right here, so I’ll spend a while with them, undergo exit conferences tomorrow and get near the household and determine issues out,” Kelce instructed reporters on January 4 after the Chiefs’ ultimate recreation of the season.
A couple of days later, on the January 7 episode of his and brother Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast, Travis stated, “I feel if my physique can heal up and relaxation up and I can really feel assured that I can go on the market and provides it one other 18, 20, 21-week run, I feel I’d do it in a heartbeat.”
The skilled athlete defined, “I feel proper now it’s simply discovering that reply and seeing how the physique feels after this recreation and when all of it settles down.”
Whereas NFL followers and all the Chiefs Kingdom wait with bated breath for Travis’ official announcement, Us Weekly reported that he’s at the moment in talks with Netflix to “function their unique broadcast sports activities correspondent.”
A supply solely instructed Us on January 8 that the phrases of a possible deal are “nonetheless being finalized, however discussions are effectively underway.”
A separate insider solely revealed that Travis “has had talks along with his staff about retiring and never taking part in soccer subsequent season.”
