Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce show off some new moves after returning to the field for the Kansas City Chiefs’ second preseason game.
The Chiefs quarterback, 28, and tight end, 34, joined their teammates for a Saturday, Aug. 18 home game against the Detroit Lions at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.
During the game, Mahomes appeared to surprise the Lions defense by throwing a football behind his back to Kelce, who caught the ball and gave the team a first down, as seen in a video posted on X (formerly Twitter).
In a video on the Chiefs’ official Instagram account, Mahomes explained how he dropped the pass — in a playful attack on Kelce. “Travis didn’t run the route he was supposed to run, and then it was kind of a behind-the-back pass, kind of because I was mad,” he joked, later adding, “Out of spite, I threw a behind-the-back pass.”
The pair’s performance comes a week after Kansas City lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Aug. 10, in their first preseason game since the Chiefs won their second straight Super Bowl title in February.
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Before their training camp ended, Mahomes praised Kelce for his performance when asked about it ahead of the 2024-25 NFL season.
“Honestly, outstanding,” Mahomes said of his teammate and friend. “I mean, you see him every day in training. He works. He’s out there getting reps. He actually gets angry when they take him out.”
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Before returning to Kansas City for the start of the new NFL season, Kelce enjoyed a whirlwind summer — including plenty of quality time with his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, as she toured Europe and a long list of side projects outside of football.
On June 23, the NFL player made his official Eras Tour debut with Swift, 34, when he suited up to join the singer on stage during her outfit change to “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart” — a transition that the singer introduced when he was first incorporated Department for tortured poets album on tour.
The tight end was later revealed on an episode of his podcast, New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce, that Swift initially laughed at the idea before asking him, “Would you really be up for something like that?”
Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and Kam Saunders at Swift’s Eras Tour show in London on June 23, 2024.
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Travis Kelce is playing the Kansas City Chiefs’ first game after a whirlwind summer with Taylor Swift
Kelce said, “I was like, ‘What? I’d love to do that, are you kidding me? I’ve seen enough of the show — I might as well get hired here.’ And sure enough, she found the perfect part of the show for me to come in.”
First look at his character in Ryan Murphy’s new series grotesque — who premiered Sept. 25 on FX — also released Aug. 15. While the NFL star look is blink-and-you’ll-miss-it, Kelce could be seen moving his arms in front of his body in a motion that alludes to some sort of magic involving his character.
Another first look at one of Kelce’s upcoming projects dropped during the Chiefs season, when Prime Video released new photos of the athlete hosting the rebooted show Are you smarter than a celebrity? which will premiere its first three episodes on October 16.
According to the show’s official synopsis, each episode will feature “an adult contestant who will rely on a classroom full of celebrities from comedy, film and sports to help them answer 11 questions on a range of topics drawn from the core curriculum” — representing a new twist from the original Are you smarter than a fifth grader? series that premiered in 2007.
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