Travis Kelce Shakes Off Possible Ankle Injury During Chiefs-Vikings Game

Travis Kelce is shaking off and playing through a possible ankle injury.

Just before halftime Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 34, slipped on the field at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis and turned his ankle at an awkward angle as his team faced the Minnesota Vikings. Kelce then limped off the field, slamming his helmet to the ground in anger.

After trying to stretch it for a few moments, Kelce went to the locker room for an X-ray during halftime.

He ran onto the field in the second half with his ankle taped, and spent the Chiefs’ next drive (which ended in a touchdown) running up and down the sidelines, checking his ankle before returning later in the quarter.

And with 2:45 left in the third, Kelce showed he can play without pain as he caught a pass out of the end zone and brought it in for a touchdown.

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Kelce dealt with other injury issues earlier in the season and was forced to sit out Week 1 after hyperextending his knee and bruising his bone during the Chiefs’ final preseason practice. He made his season debut in Week 2 and has played every week since.

The last three weeks of the season have been news for the two-time Super Bowl champion — before the possible injury, Kelce was the talk of the NFL amid his rumored romance with pop superstar Taylor Swift.

Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift.

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Swift, 33, watched his Sept. 24 game against the Chicago Bears alongside his mom, Donna Kelce, at Kelce’s suite, before leaving with him after the win to celebrate with friends at a postgame party in Kansas City.

A week later, the “Anti-Hero” singer cheered him on with a host of famous friends at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, as the Chiefs beat the New York Jets. She did not appear to attend the Chiefs game in Minnesota.

Taylor Swift.

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Kelce and Swift are “still getting to know each other,” a source told PEOPLE earlier this week, adding, “It’s nothing too serious.”

Although Kelce is spending time with Swift, “he’s focused on football as always,” the source says. “During the NFL season, his priority is the Chiefs, and it’s all about the team.”

Kelce said at a news conference Friday that he’s been “on top of the world” for the past few weeks.

“With all the attention coming in … I feel like I was on top of the world after the Super Bowl, and now I’m even more on top of the world.”

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