Travis Kelce breaks NFL tight end receiving yards record - RAW CHILI

Former Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez chats with current Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce before a game on Dec. 13, 2018 at Arrowhead Stadium.

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A few days after supplanting Tony Gonzalez as the Chiefs’ franchise leader in pass receptions in 2024, tight end Travis Kelce shared a message on the New Heights podcast.

“Tony, I love you brother, and I can’t thank you enough for who you are as a person and who you’ve been in my career,” Kelce said at the time. “And I’ve taken everything you’ve taught me and I’ve ran with it, man. And I’ve tried to become better because of it. And, yeah, just love that guy, man. It’s an honor.”

That was a little more than two years ago, and Kelce now is the Chiefs’ leader in pass receptions, receiving yards and touchdown catches.

Kelce surpassed Gonzalez in the NFL record books on Sunday night. Kelce now has the most receiving yards for any tight end in league history, including postseason games.

Entering Sunday’s game, Kelce had 13,301 receiving yards in regular-season games. With his 2,078 receiving yards in playoff games, he had 15,379 total in his career.

That put him 34 yards behind Gonzalez, who had 15,413 receiving yards in his career (15,127 in the regular season and 286 in the playoffs). That had been the most by a tight end in NFL history.

But with a 19-yard catch in the fourth quarter of the Chiefs’ “Sunday Night Football” game against the Seahawks in Seattle, Kelce moved past his mentor. That catch at Lumen Field gave Kelce 41 receiving yards in Sunday’s game.

That also was Kelce’s 1,103 career reception, which is the fifth most in NFL history. He moved past Cris Carter and Marvin Harrison on the all-time list.

Travis Kelce moving into 5th on the all-time receptions list on National TE Day is so awesome https://t.co/ZjmfyF7HAN

— Ozoon (@Ozoon_CA) October 26, 2026

This story was originally published October 25, 2026 at 9:45 PM.