Travis Kelce has unfinished business.
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end is expected to return for a 13th NFL season, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday, continuing a career that will someday go down as one of the greatest ever at the position.
The news comes after Chiefs general manager Brett Veach said earlier on Tuesday in Indianapolis at the NFL Scouting Combine that Kelce is “fired up” about returning.
“We left it as, he’d be back and we’re excited to get him back and get him going,” Veach told reporters.
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid also expressed confidence in a Kelce return during a Tuesday interview with NFL Senior National Columnist Judy Battista. “I think it will all work out. But I’m big on that, I’m big on stepping away,” Reid said. “I mean, Trav is positive. There’s no negative to it. But step back and get yourself away from it. … You just think clearer. We obviously hope he’s coming back. He’s been positive in that direction. We’ll cross all that here next week or so.”
Retirement winds swirled around Kelce ahead of Super Bowl LIX as they had during Kansas City’s previous two trips to the big game.