{"id":765916,"date":"2026-02-21T03:09:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/765916\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:09:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:09:37","slug":"nfl-world-reacts-to-travis-kelce-leaving-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/765916\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL world reacts to Travis Kelce leaving Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iconic tight end Travis Kelce has spent his entire NFL career with the Kansas City Chiefs, but a new report suggests he may be eyeing a different place to wrap things up.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce is still weighing whether to retire, yet his contract with Kansas City expired after the 2025\u201326 season. That means if he decides to keep playing, he\u2019ll hit free agency for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>For months, the assumption has been that Kelce would return to the Chiefs if he opts against retirement. However, that expectation may not be as solid as once believed.<\/p>\n<p>According to FS1 analyst and radio host Craig Carton, Kelce isn\u2019t preparing to retire \u2014 but he may not be preparing to rejoin Kansas City, either.<\/p>\n<p>Carton even floated a specific landing spot: the New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rumor is that Travis Kelce is not going to retire. He wants to come back for another year, but he does not want to go back to Kansas City. I saw a story today that Travis Kelce wants to play for the New York Giants!\u201d Carton said on his program via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/travis-kelce-trade-rumors-heating-up-linked-nfc-east-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Total Pro Sports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat way he and his wife can live in New York City, she can go to every game, and Travis Kelce can be in the biggest media market in America. I know it\u2019s just a rumor, but do not sleep on the Giants signing Kelce this offseason,\u201d Carton continued.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, no one else has corroborated the report, so it remains speculative. Still, the idea isn\u2019t completely out of left field considering Swift\u2019s home base in New York City and how frequently the couple is spotted there.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the idea of Kelce leaving the Chiefs led to a lot of reactions in the comments of the story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood if it\u2019s true go Travis go to the Giants please,\u201d one fan wrote in the comments on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/share\/4499741264347-breaking-travis-kelce-suddenly-linked-to-whole-new-team-in-2026-report?_f=app_share&amp;pd=0GTtnNgZ&amp;lang=en_US&amp;send_time=1771616735&amp;trans_data=%7B%22platform%22%3A0%2C%22cv%22%3A%2226.6.0.47%22%2C%22languages%22%3A%22en%22%7D&amp;s=i16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKelce needs to leave KC he hasn\u2019t done much in the last 3 seasons,\u201d someone else added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBye bye,\u201d another fan commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t wanna lose another year. He\u2019s too old. He\u2019s too slow. His mind is not on the game and it shows we would like to have our team back now and move it on,\u201d a Chiefs fan commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI dont see Travis leaving KC for the Giants \u2026for 1 yr\u2026he would retire first \u2026..same with Max Crosby I really don\u2019t think hes goin any where either hes a Raider thru n thru \u2026my opinion,\u201d someone else speculated.<\/p>\n<p>Free agency officially opens next month, and until then, it\u2019s all conjecture. But if the rumor holds any weight, Kelce\u2019s storied run in Kansas City could potentially come to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iconic tight end Travis Kelce has spent his entire NFL career with the Kansas City Chiefs, but a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,110,1917,56,2321,2469,6,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-765916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-giants","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-travis-kelce"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116106426143437814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}