The 2024 NFL season has come to an end and for the first time in three years, the Kansas City Chiefs are not the defending Super Bowl champions. The loss means that we can now all turn to the offseason and debate what changes the Chiefs will make.

A big change that reportedly could be coming to the Chiefs’ roster this offseason is the potential retirement of Travis Kelce. Bleacher Report’s James Palmer gave a pretty telling quote on Monday morning on that exact topic.

“Nobody in the Chiefs’ organization really wants to admit it, but if you ask them, ‘Hey, what’s your gut feeling?’, I think this might be it for Travis Kelce. And it’s nothing that they want to happen. Travis hasn’t said anything either way. I know he got very emotional addressing the team Saturday night but he did that two years ago as well and then came back and played. He’s an emotional guy. But a couple of people I talked to just kind of hinted at, ‘If my gut were to tell me, I’d say he’s done.'”

Travis Kelce might have played his final game with the Chiefs

Kelce was visibly upset during the Super Bowl 59 defeat (a 40-22 to the Eagles) but he had previously said that he planned to continue playing. Did the blowout loss sway him to hang up the cleats and call it a career?

If this does indeed end up being the end for Kelce, he’ll go down in franchise history as the all-time leader in receiving yards. He also has three Super Bowl rings on his mantle and can walk away from the game knowing that he was the best tight end to ever play for the Chiefs (and that’s saying something with this franchise’s historic run of tight ends) and one of the best tight ends in NFL history.