{"id":28365,"date":"2025-02-24T07:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T07:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28365"},"modified":"2025-02-24T07:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T07:33:14","slug":"revealed-travis-kelce-to-receive-huge-bonus-if-he-doesnt-retire-by-march-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28365","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Travis Kelce to receive huge bonus if he doesn’t retire by March 14.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Travis Kelce<\/span>\u00a0will bring home a massive payday if he decides to return for another season.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs tight end, 35, was noncommittal about his playing future after his team’s\u00a0Super Bowl<\/span>\u00a0loss to the Eagles,\u00a0saying on his subsequent New Heights podcast that he would ‘take some time to figure it out.’<\/p>\n

But if he is still on\u00a0Kansas<\/span>\u00a0City’s roster by March 15, he will receive a $12.5million roster bonus, according to\u00a0Spotrac.<\/p>\n

That figure would come in addition to the $4.5million in base salary he is set to receive in 2025.<\/p>\n

If Kelce retired – or was cut by the team – it would\u00a0save the Chiefs $17million in cap space<\/span>.<\/p>\n

And if Kelce does choose to hang his cleats up, he is expected to inform the Chiefs of that decision before the bonus kicks in.<\/p>\n

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Travis Kelce will take home a huge bonus if he decides to play another year for the Chiefs<\/p>\n

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Kelce was relatively quiet in Super Bowl LIX, as he caught four passes for just 39 yards<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Athletic previously reported that the Chiefs want to know whether Kelce is playing or retiring around March 14 – the day before the sum would be awarded to the player.<\/p>\n

That date is also about five weeks before the NFL Draft – where the Chiefs could look to replace Kelce if he decides he’s done playing.<\/p>\n

Kelce was fifth among tight ends in 2024 with 823 receiving yards, though that total was his lowest since his sophomore season in 2014.<\/p>\n

The tight end also hauled in just three touchdowns this season and was quiet in Super Bowl LIX, catching four passes for 39 yards in his team’s 40-22 loss.<\/p>\n

However, the latest indications are that\u00a0he will continue playing<\/span>, as revealed by The Athletic’s Dianna Russini earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the\u00a0Rich Eisen Show, Russini said that, from conversations she’s had, there’s ‘definitely a sense’ that Kelce will continue playing.<\/p>\n

Russini added that the Chiefs ‘feel pretty good that Travis has got a little bit more left in him.’<\/p>\n

Ahead of the Super Bowl, Kelce said he hoped to still be playing in three years, but struck a different tone when he spoke on New Heights after the Chiefs’ 40-22 Super Bowl loss.<\/p>\n

‘I’m gonna take some time to figure it out,’ Kelce said. And I think I owe it to my teammates that if I do come back that it’s gonna be a wholehearted decision and I’m not half-a**ing it, and I’m fully here for them.<\/p>\n

‘I think I can play, it’s just whether or not I’m motivated or it’s the best decision for me as a man, as a human, as a person to take on all that responsibility.’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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