Travis Kelce finished the 2025 campaign with his third-lowest season yard total. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
Kansas City also added $3 million in incentives, including tiers for making the playoffs and Super Bowl and playing 60-80 percent of regular-season snaps.
The contract is also broken up to manage cap hits. In 2026, Kelce will have a $4.8 million cap hit and dead money hits of $3.5 million in the ensuing two years.
This stipulation allows the Chiefs to evade void years. They have minimum salaries built into dummy years in 2027 and 2028, including $40 million guaranteed in 2028 if he’s still rostered by June 8 of next year. However, if the Chiefs release him by June 1, 2027, they can spread the dead money out.
After making his decision to keep playing this year, it could be a direct path to retirement for Kelce considering he’ll be 37 next season.
The Chiefs won three Super Bowls in five years from 2019-23, with Travis Kelce at the forefront. AP
In 17 games this past season, Kelce finished with 851 yards and five touchdowns. It was the third straight year he failed to reach the 1,000-yard plateau, but he still made his 11th consecutive Pro Bowl.
