OVERVIEW
In high school, Kelce was a three sport star, but his best sport was always football. He was a three-year letter winner at quarterback, and earned All-Lake Erie League honors after totaling 2,539 yards of total offense and 31 total touchdowns as a senior. Kelce’s uncle Don Blalock played football at Purdue and grandfather Don Blalock played football at Ohio. Travis is the younger brother of former Cincinnati Bearcats and current Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce.
In his first year on campus, Travis redshirted. In his redshirt freshman year, Kelce participated in 11 games as the tight end. He caught one pass for three yards. Kelce also played some quarterback, strictly in a Wildcat role. He logged eight carries for 47 yards and two touchdowns. Kelce did not play in 2010, as he was suspended for a violation of team rules. Upon his return in 2011, Kelce caught 13 passes for 150 yards and two touchdowns. In his senior season, Kelce put himself on the NFL prospect map, as he caught 45 passes for 722 yards and eight touchdowns. He was selected to the All-Big East first team for his play.
ANALYSIS
STRENGTHS Kelce has an ideal tight end frame. Athletic for his size, with great strength, and the ability to stretch the field vertically. Very physical run blocker, generates power from the lower half, and will move defenders off the ball. Plays with leverage. Wide catching radius, can adjust and make the difficult catch. Tough to bring down after the catch. Light feet, and has lined up in numerous different positions.
WEAKNESSES Suspended for an entire season for violating team rules. Only one season of production. Doesn't have blazing speed. Not a tremendously explosive athlete. Doesn't come out of his breaks all that well.
NFL COMPARISON Rob Gronkowski
BOTTOM LINE Kelce has been a tremendous run blocker throughout his career for the Bearcats, but really elevated his game as a receiver in his senior season. He isn't a tremendous athlete, but he does a lot of things very well. It's a deep tight end class, but Kelce's play suggests that he should be highly sought after. [Reply]
Originally Posted by FlaChief58:
Yeah, I've also heard that he's not a great blocker. Many people say that san frans te is better because of this.
San Fran's TE is so good that you have to keep him in as a blocker on 3rd and 10 in the 4th quarter of the SUPER BOWL rather than send him out to catch passes.
If only we could have had Kelce do the same in our Super Bowls.. [Reply]
Hunter Biden +200 Travis Kelce +800 One of the Jonas Brothers +1000 Angelina Jolie +1200 Maddox Jolie-Pitt +1200 Ariana Madix +1200 Member of LSU Lady Tigers +1400 Member of UConn Men’s Team +1400 Snoop Dogg +1600 Edward Lee +1600… pic.twitter.com/4BVHQccWvy
Originally Posted by -King-:
NO ONE on this forum had TE as a position of need. Yet now that we've spend our 2nd highest pick on one, people are now rationalizing it like we needed one. :-)
Originally Posted by -King-:
He isn't hurt. He had his knee cleaned out like hundreds of other players do in the off season.
Originally Posted by -King-:
Moeaki was hurt once in his career. Other than that one injury which happened to Charles and Berry as well, he's played in 15 games each of his other 2 seasons.
Originally Posted by -King-: :-) I didn't even know Kelce did that. That makes this pick even worse.
But hey... that gives him a mean streak according to people here...
Originally Posted by -King-:
But he's exactly what we needed!!!!!
Originally Posted by -King-:
Moeaki will have more receiving yards than him.
One of these days I'm going to find some of the threads bitching out Kelce for drops and unsportsmanlike penalties.
Because there are some posters in this thread laughing at people who didn't like the pick back then, and yet acted like dumb jabronis over nothingburgers. "That cost us 15 yards, Travis!!!!!"
I DO have those receipts calling out Chiefs fans on this forum. Kelce drops a pass? Ya'll turned on him viciously.
If you don't like Kelce when he makes a booboo, you don't deserve Kelce when he's splitting Chargers defenders for game-winning TDs and rustling everybody's jimmies. "Why don't they just cover him?? How the hell is he always open???" But yeah... he dropped that one pass and hilariously drew a flag for throwing his towel at an official. Unacceptable, right?
Those are the fans who deserve Moeaki and Fasano as their TE. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tredadda:
And yards if I am not mistaken. It's even wilder to think that he has a legit shot at breaking both of those before he retires.
He is number 2 in yards also. I think he has a greater chance at the TD record than the yardage. 6 TDs behind Rice, but almost.700 yards. [Reply]
Hunter Biden +200 Travis Kelce +800 One of the Jonas Brothers +1000 Angelina Jolie +1200 Maddox Jolie-Pitt +1200 Ariana Madix +1200 Member of LSU Lady Tigers +1400 Member of UConn Men’s Team +1400 Snoop Dogg +1600 Edward Lee +1600… pic.twitter.com/4BVHQccWvy
Hunter Biden +200 Travis Kelce +800 One of the Jonas Brothers +1000 Angelina Jolie +1200 Maddox Jolie-Pitt +1200 Ariana Madix +1200 Member of LSU Lady Tigers +1400 Member of UConn Men’s Team +1400 Snoop Dogg +1600 Edward Lee +1600… pic.twitter.com/4BVHQccWvy
Holy shit. This is a real line you can bet apparently. I thought it was a joke. It's listed under "Entertainment".
Kelce is now up to +3300.
Hunter is at -525.
Andy Reid is at +10000 [Reply]
