Travis Kelce
Kansas City Chiefs·#87·6'5"·250 lb·13th year·CincinnatiTravis Kelce has 29 catches, 410 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns in 7 games for the Kansas City Chiefs this season through Week 8, 11.7 PPR points a game (updated November 6, 2026).
Model Score by season
A career-high 99.0 this season, up from 88.3.
How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →
STM Take
An all-time great tight end on the back nine.
The case for
- All-time TE leader in career receptions and receiving yards; the resume is the most decorated at the position in NFL history.
- 10-time Pro Bowler and 4-time first-team All-Pro; the career tier is the all-time elite.
The worry
- Drop from STTM #1 tier 1 in 2021 to #7 tier 2 in 2025; the trajectory is the natural age-32 decline.
- Recent game log includes multiple sub-5 PPR weeks; the floor games come more often now.
What to watch: Whether Kelce retires after 2026 or plays one more season; the career is at the wind-down phase.
Full take and bio
Kelce at STTM #7 tier 2 in 2025 (down from his five-year run at STTM #1 or #2) reflects the late-career decline at age 32. The 24.1 PPR Week 11 ceiling shows the talent lives, but the 1.6 (Wk 16) and 1.8 (Wk 14) PPR weeks reflect a player no longer commanding every snap of the offense. Three Super Bowl rings make him a first-ballot Hall of Famer regardless of where the rank sits.
Kelce was born in Westlake, Ohio, played at Cincinnati, and Kansas City took him 63rd overall in the 2013 NFL Draft. He has won three Super Bowls with the Chiefs, made ten Pro Bowls, earned four first-team All-Pro nods, holds the NFL record for receiving yards by a tight end in a season (1,416 in 2020), and is the all-time leader in career receptions and receiving yards among tight ends.
Comps
The players whose size, testing and production looked most like his at the same point in their careers. The percent is how close.
Plays like: George Kittle, Dallas Goedert, Rickey Dudley. Built like: Luke Schoonmaker, Jordan Cameron, Daniel Bellinger. Coming out: Clark Harris, Anthony Fasano, Jermaine Gresham.
Of his 20 closest coming out: 2 stars, 10 starters, 5 backups, 3 didn't stick.
Travis Kelce Props This Weekvs NYJ Sun Nov 8
| Market | Line | Over | Under |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receptions | 4.5 | +118 BetRivers | -135 Bovada |
| Receiving yards | 45.5 | -110 DraftKings | -114 FanDuel |
| Longest reception | 19.5 | -116 DraftKings | -112 DraftKings |
| Anytime TD | +150 DraftKings |
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Travis Kelce Injury StatusNot listed
Travis Kelce is not on the injury report as of Nov 6. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.
This season · 7 games
11.7 fantasy points a game, 82 PPR on the season. Every game on the Game Log, every season on Career. Advanced numbers are EPA and Next Gen Stats.
Contract2026 cap
Every year of the deal, the dead money and what a cut or trade saves on the Contract tab.
Fantasy outlookWeek 9
Our rest-of-season board has Travis Kelce at TE11 (the public consensus says TE12); the model has 96 PPR points left for him this season; this week he hosts NYJ.
Price a trade for him on the fantasy trade calculator, or see the whole board on the Fantasy hub.
Draft & College
Round 3, pick 63 to the Kansas City Chiefs in 2013, out of Cincinnati (AAC). He went earlier than consensus.
Coming out: 4.63s 40 yd.
Recruited
Class of 2008 · Tight end · High school: Cleveland Heights, Cleveland, OH
His full list of offers is not on our record yet; offers for the 2008 class are still being added.