For the Kansas City Chiefs’ superstar tight end Travis Kelce, 2023 was a season of both triumph and struggle.
As he was being catapulted into worldwide fame through his podcast (and his highly-publicized romance with pop icon Taylor Swift), he played through a season in which he battled several injuries and watched his statistical production decline.
Kelce missed the season’s opening game due to a bone bruise from a knee hyperextension that he suffered during practice just two days before. In Week 5, he sustained an ankle injury. Although he did not miss another game until he chose to sit out in Week 18, most observers thought Kelce never looked quite the same; it was widely believed he had “lost a step.