Travis Kelce scored the primary landing of his 2024-2025 NFL season as tight finish for the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
The NFL star caught a 5-yard landing go from Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes to attain towards the Las Vegas Raiders throughout their Sunday, October 27, recreation at Allegiant Stadium in Nevada. October 27 additionally occurs to be Nationwide Tight Ends Day, and Kelce, 35, celebrated his landing by spiking the ball within the endzone.
Kelce caught the landing go within the recreation’s second quarter. Previous to this, he had gone 12 video games within the common season with out scoring a landing go. This not solely marked the primary landing for Kelce of the season, however gave the Chiefs a three-point lead over the Raiders. The Chiefs finally took dwelling the victory with a 27-20 win. Kelce completed his Sunday recreation with 10 receptions and 90 yards.
In line with the NFL, this rating made Kelce the fifth tight finish in NFL historical past to hit 75 receiving touchdowns. Breaking a tie with former Dallas Cowboys tight finish Jason Witten, Kelce is now solidly in fifth place for profession touchdowns by a good finish.
Kelce’s landing comes after his hotly contested sluggish begin to the season, which noticed him catch solely eight passes within the Chiefs’ first three video games of the season for a complete of 69 yards. Comparatively, Kelce amassed 184 receiving yards on 17 receptions in the course of the first three video games of his best season in 2022.
“For no matter motive, these previous two video games it hasn’t gone that manner for me,” Kelce stated of his begin in the course of the September 18 episode of his “New Heights” podcast, which he hosts with brother Jason Kelce. “That’s soccer, man. I’m not about to sit down right here and get annoyed about it.”
Throughout the identical episode, Kelce famous that he “used to get actually, actually pissed off and virtually lose my cool,” saying, “I identical to to play the sport to such a excessive stage of accountability that it’s simply robust for me to take care of being mediocre or having stats that signify that.”
Kelce added, “I finished caring about stats 4 or 5 years in the past.”
Regardless of the sluggish begin, Kelce has nonetheless managed to interrupt and make information for the Chiefs.Through the group’s September 29 victory towards the Los Angeles Chargers, Kelce caught seven passes for 89 yards, each season highs for the NFL star. He additionally handed the file of legendary tight finish Tony Gonzalez for many receptions in Chiefs franchise historical past.