Travis Kelce’s Ex Kayla Nicole Notes His ‘Slow Start’ to NFL Season

Kayla Nicole dropped ex-boyfriend Travis Kelce’s identify whereas discussing sports activities bets for Monday Night time Soccer.

Nicole, 32, appeared in a clip shared by I Am Athlete Day by day’s Instagram account on Monday, October 7, whereby she cited potential upcoming bets forward of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs vs. New Orleans Saints recreation. Additionally within the clip have been Tad Prescott and former NFL stars Brandon Marshall and Aqib Talib.

After referencing Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, calling him the “G.O.A.T,” she moved on to Kelce, 34, noting his “gradual begin” within the 2024-2025 NFL season. “Do you suppose he’s going to get greater than 58.5 receiving yards?” she requested Marshall and Talib, who replied, “Yeah, I feel he will get extra. Like I stated, no Rashee Rice, they tried to power feed him final time so that you’re going to positively want him.”

Nicole dated Kelce, 35, on and off between 2017 to 2022 earlier than they cut up for good. Kelce later moved on with world pop celebrity Taylor Swift in July 2023.

Final yr, Nicole advised Folks she had unfollowed each Mahomes, 29, and his spouse, Brittany Mahomes, on social media amid her ex-boyfriend’s new high-profile relationship.

“I do suppose it’s vital to publicly deal with this as a result of I did publicly unfollow individuals,” Nicole advised the outlet in October 2023. “The truth is I do know these individuals in actual life. And so, in actual life, I’ve communicated to those individuals why I’ve needed to publicly make the selections that I made.”

As for Kelce, his 2024-2025 begin noticed him catch solely eight passes within the Chief’s first three video games of the season for a complete of 69 yards — which is not any secret to him or his followers. “For no matter cause, these previous two video games it hasn’t gone that means for me,” he stated through the September 18 episode of his “New Heights” podcast. “That’s soccer, man. I’m not about to take a seat right here and get pissed off about it.”

Swift, for her half, has not but been to a Chiefs recreation this season. Nevertheless, whereas celebrating his birthday on Saturday, October 5, at his “Kelce Automotive Jam” charity occasion, Kelce seemingly confirmed that Swift, 34, can be in attendance at Monday’s Chiefs vs. Saints recreation. Per social media footage, Kelce was heard telling a fan, “She won’t be right here proper now. I do know she’s coming for the sport.”

Kelce and Swift made their public debut as a pair in September 2023 when she attended her first recreation at Arrowhead Stadium.

“By the point I went to that first recreation, we have been a pair. I feel some individuals suppose that they noticed our first date at that recreation? We might by no means be psychotic sufficient to laborious launch a primary date,” Swift advised TIME in her December 2023 Particular person of the 12 months profile. “While you say a relationship is public, meaning I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re exhibiting up for one another, different individuals are there and we don’t care.”