Soccer tight ends perform to guard their quarterback in the midst of NFL performs, and few do it higher than Travis Kelce.
Kelce has been the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ high tight finish since 2013, 4 years earlier than Patrick Mahomes signed with the Missouri crew as a quarterback.
“Clearly, I get right here at the start of the yr [and] I’m nonetheless a rookie, so I’m form of going by the motions and check out to determine the easiest way to slot in and I feel the primary time I believed me and Travis had been gonna be linked … was [after] the fourth preseason sport,” Mahomes recalled on Kelce’s“New Heights” podcast in December 2022, noting Kelce occurred to be partying on the “similar spot” as Mahomes and the opposite rookies, who invited the crew to affix him.
Mahomes ended up being late to the Chiefs’ “walk-through” — identical to Kelce. “I used to be like, ‘Dope, I’m not alone! Let’s go, man,’” Kelce quipped. “At that time, I knew we had been teammates.”
Scroll down for Mahomes and Kelce’s sweetest friendship moments by the years: