Travis Kelce weighed in on his recent weight loss during a press conference Tuesday.
When a reporter asked the Kansas City Chiefs tight end about recent headlines claiming he had lost 25 pounds during the NFL offseason, he chuckled and replied, “Don’t believe all you read on the internet, guys, all right?”
While Kelce, 35, claimed he “never told anybody” he had dropped 25 pounds, he admitted he is “down some weight from the end of the season last year.”
According to the football star, “each year’s different” and requires athletes to “rebuild.”
“This year, I got some time to really focus on some form running and some things early on in the offseason that I just didn’t have time for last year,” he explained, adding that he’s “certainly feeling good,” which he thinks will “pay off.”
Over the weekend, ESPN personality Jeremy Fowler claimed on “SportsCenter” that Kelce would “debut a bit of a slimmer look” when he arrived for minicamp this week.
“He’s told people close to him that he’s lost about 25 pounds this offseason,” the journalist said. “Played a little heavier in 2024. It was sort of a thing. He vowed to change it, and he has.”
Kelce, whose forthcoming NFL season could be his last before retirement, is “still a productive player” whose teammates “want to go to him on third down, but [he’s] been declining a little bit,” Fowler argued.
“So he’s trying to be slimmer and has gone hardcore this offseason to make it work.”
Kelce previously admitted to gaining weight ahead of the 2024-25 season.
During a March 2024 episode of his “New Heights” podcast, he quipped that he and his older brother, Jason Kelce — who weighed 280 pounds at the time — were “in the same weight class.”
Jason, a retired Philadelphia Eagles center, pointed out that Travis had “been drinking more.”
Following his third Super Bowl win in February 2024, Travis and his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, traveled all over the world together in celebration.
That June, he and his teammate Patrick Mahomes poked fun at their “dad bods” after struggling to fit into their jerseys for the annual Big Slick Celebrity Party.
“This is dad-bod season,” the quarterback, who shares three kids with his wife, Brittany Mahomes, quipped.
“I have no kids,” his pal responded. “This is just what it looks like at 35!”
Since the Chiefs suffered a massive blow in this year’s Super Bowl, Travis and Swift have stayed out of the spotlight.
In fact, he has spent most of his time in Florida, preparing for the 2025-26 season.
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