Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift tying the knot at New York’s MSG attracted quite a bit of attention. But there is still an interesting detail in their wedding guest list that you could’ve easily missed. It appears to have been a hint at what the Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end is considering as his next big career move.
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Awful Announcing’s Drew Lerner reported that “practically everyone” from the NFL on FOX team and Amazon Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football Crew was present at Kelce’s big day. Tom Brady, Kevin Burkhardt, Erin Andrews, Greg Olsen, Charissa Thompson, Michael Strahan, Julian Edelman, Rob Gronkowski, and the rules analyst Dean Blandino made up the FOX contingent. Richard Sherman, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Tony Gonzalez, and Andrew Whitworth represented Thursday Night Football. According to Lerman, such an attendance could strongly imply one thing:
Kelce is eyeing a career in football media after his imminent retirement from the NFL.
“Frankly, Travis would get whichever gig he wants, at any network with an available spot,” Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio wrote, tacking on to the above idea. “The only question is the price. And the over-under for the combined gigs would be, in our view, $40 million per year, easily.”
Mind you, a lot still depends on the kind of workload the 36-year-old wants to take on after more than a decade of playing football. But what we know for sure is that Kelce will bring a huge market to whichever network is interested in him.
With 11 Pro Bowl nods and 3 Super Bowl wins under his belt, Kelce is one of the biggest stars in the NFL. Besides this, ever since he has been linked to pop superstar Taylor Swift, Kelce has become a huge celebrity both on and off the field. The New Heights podcast, which he hosts with his brother, Jason, also has 3.17 million subscribers on YouTube, 3.6 million followers on Instagram, and more than 557,600 followers on X.
The brothers even signed a $100 million deal with Amazon’s Wondery audio network for the exclusive multimedia rights to the podcast in 2024. With that corporate footing already in place, things could work out really well for New Heights in the future. But the Chiefs TE isn’t limiting himself to just podcasting.
The presence of many Amazon and Fox NFL personalities at the Kelce-Swift wedding (and the absence of anyone from CBS or NBC) could be a hint regarding the next move(s) for Travis. nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…
According to a statement sourced by PEOPLE, Kelce has “been in discussions with every major streaming service, including Netflix, and every major network for the past several years.” The TE has also expressed his desire to be part of a broadcasting crew someday.
“I wanna see what calling a game feels like,” Kelce said in an appearance on Bussin’ With The Boys. “I’ve always impersonated guys that call the games and stuff like that growing up. I don’t know, I thought it would always be fun to just jump in there.”
Travis Kelce might replace Kirk Herbstreit?
The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand seemed to put Kelce as a wild-card candidate to replace color commentator Herbstreit on Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football. The latter’s contract is ending after the 2026 season. Interestingly, reports claim that Herbstreit was not seen among the Amazon personnel at Kelce’s wedding.
TNF’s play-by-play announcer Al Michaels is also nearing the end of his run at 81 years old. Things are really lining up for Kelce to realize his dream of being in the broadcast booth.
Florio also wrote that Kelce could do both FOX and Prime Video stints together, and it would be “much easier than Herbstreit’s current triple duty of ESPN College GameDay… and Thursday Night Football.”
Ultimately, the exact structure of Kelce’s post-retirement plans is still a mystery. But when he finally decides to hang up his cleats, a multi-million-dollar broadcasting deal would likely be waiting for him.