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 move from Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes to attain in opposition to the Las Vegas Raiders throughout their Sunday, October 27, sport 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 move within the sport’s second quarter. Previous to this, he had gone 12 video games within the common season without scoring a touchdown pass. 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 sport with 10 receptions and 90 yards.
Based on 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 decent finish.
Kelce’s landing comes after his hotly contested slow start 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 throughout the first three video games of his best season in 2022.
“For no matter purpose, these previous two video games it hasn’t gone that approach for me,” Kelce mentioned of his begin throughout 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 take a seat right here and get pissed off about it.”
Throughout the identical episode, Kelce famous that he “used to get actually, actually pissed off and nearly lose my cool,” saying, “I identical to to play the sport to such a excessive stage of accountability that it’s simply powerful for me to cope with being mediocre or having stats that characterize that.”
Kelce added, “I ended caring about stats 4 or 5 years in the past.”
Regardless of the gradual begin, Kelce has nonetheless managed to break and make records for the Chiefs.Through the workforce’s September 29 victory in opposition to 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.