Kansas City Chiefs veteran tight end Travis Kelce is going around again in 2025, and with many thinking the 35-year-old should have hung up his cleats, he is back for Year 13.

For some, that decision doesn’t sit well due to his declining production on the field with Travis posting 823 yards and just three touchdowns in the regular season, both the lowest totals since his rookie season.

But those numbers are still solid, and it is due to Kelce’s history of excellence that those numbers mean he’s not the player he once was.

However, is there a concern that maybe Kelce is hanging on, and 2025 might see him decline even further? Not if you ask head coach Andy Reid.

“He’s all in, he’s a heck of a player,” Reid said on The Bettor Angle podcast. “I mean listen, he’s getting older but you’re talking about the guy that’s going to go down as maybe the best of all time at that position. And okay well, if he’s a step slower or whatever people are saying, he’s still one of the best in the National Football League and in my eyes he’s the best.”

So yes, Kelce’s numbers were bad (for him), but looking at the other tight ends in 2024, his yards had him ranked fifth, he was third in receptions (97) and targets (133), and fifth in yards per game (51.4). With his three touchdowns being the “blemish.”

When we look at that, Kelce is still producing, just not to the All-Pro level we have come to know.

And Reid is right. A declining Kelce is still better than most of the NFL at the tight end position, and in 2025, you better believe that Travis is eying a better output with the pain of the Super Bowl loss fueling his charge back to the top.