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]
We just signed Anthony Fasano this off season. We have Moeaki. Those are both guys that average 400-600 yards a season.
And we spend the first pick of the 3rd round on another one? Sad.
I am not bumping this to dunk on this post because hey who could have known the best TE in the history of the NFL would be this draft pick but I did want to bump because I had not heard about or thought about Moeaki in forever. I really liked that guy! [Reply]
Originally Posted by RealSNR:
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.
Oh NOES!!, RealSNR shouting at clouds again while tragi-comically attempting to gatekeep Chiefs Fandom. Prepare yourselves for scathing schoolyard level burns, and challenges such as "COME ON, PUSSY!" that really put the hair on your chest!
Whatever shall Chiefsplanet do at the mercy of this tyrant?
