{"id":29438,"date":"2025-02-28T03:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T03:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=29438"},"modified":"2025-02-28T03:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T03:17:58","slug":"patrick-mahomes-reacts-to-travis-kelces-2025-season-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=29438","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes Reacts To Travis Kelce&#8217;s 2025 Season Announcement.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0tight end\u00a0Travis Kelce\u00a0took almost three weeks to announce his decision on the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>He was thinking about retiring but put that off for at least one more year and will play for the Chiefs again in 2025. 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They jumped out to a 24-0 lead in the first half and never looked back.<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes had his worst performance of the season, while Kelce also didn&#8217;t make much of an impact, finishing with four receptions for 39 yards and no touchdowns.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\">\n<div class=\"m-in-content-ad not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\" data-zone-count=\"3\">\n<div class=\"not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c m-in-content-ad is-loaded\">\n<div id=\"ad-in_content-b913a56e61e84c5ea3dbbd3a756719a3\" data-google-query-id=\"CLTJ27-w5YsDFZCT6QUd15Yxrw\" data-ad-size=\"adhesion\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/thespun.com\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs_6__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/thespun.com\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs_6\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/thespun.com\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs_6\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"8\" data-rhp=\"1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>They&#8217;ll try to put that game behind them heading into the 2025 season. 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