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After failing to become the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive Super Bowls, the Kansas City Chiefs have also been denied the chance to win any ESPYS hardware\u00a0 this year.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs, including quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce, were snubbed when the nominations for the 2025 ESPY Awards were announced on Thursday, June 26.<\/p>\n
Mahomes, 29, and Kelce, 35, were not nominated in the categories of Best Athlete, Men\u2019s Sports or Best NFL Player.<\/p>\n
Chiefs quarterback Mahomes was the two-time defending winner in Best Athlete, Men\u2019s Sports. The nominees this year are Saquon Barkley<\/strong> (Philadelphia Eagles), Josh Allen<\/strong> (Buffalo Bills), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/strong> (Oklahoma City Thunder) and Shohei Ohtani<\/strong> (Los Angeles Dodgers).<\/p>\n Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes Give Gifts to Make-A-Wish Recipients at Kansas City Chiefs Practice<\/p>\n Barkley, 28, and Allen, 29, are also nominated for Best NFL Player alongside the Baltimore Ravens\u2019 Lamar Jackson<\/strong> and the Denver Broncos\u2019 Patrick Surtain II<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Chiefs were also snubbed in the Best Team category in favor of the Eagles, who beat them in February\u2019s Super Bowl LIX, the NBA champion Thunder, the World Series champion Dodgers, the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers, the WNBA champion New York Liberty, the NCAA women\u2019s lacrosse champion North Carolina Tar Heels, the gold medal-winning United States women\u2019s national soccer team and the NCAA women\u2019s basketball champion UConn Huskies.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, the nominees for Best Athlete, Women\u2019s Sports are gymnast Simone Biles<\/strong>, Las Vegas Aces player A\u2019ja Wilson<\/strong> and track and field stars Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone<\/strong> and Gabby Thomas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark<\/strong> was not nominated for Best Athlete, Women\u2019s Sports, but was nominated for Best Record-Breaking Performance and Best WNBA Player, alongside Wilson, 28, the Minnesota Lynx\u2019s Napheesa Collier<\/strong> and the New York Liberty\u2019s Breanna Stewart<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Share Sweet Kiss While Walking the Tight End U Red Carpet<\/p>\n As for Mahomes, Kelce and the Chiefs, the team will officially begin preparations for the 2025 season when training camp opens on July 22.<\/p>\n Kelce announced he would be returning for at least one more season in February, citing the Chiefs\u2019 40-22 loss in the Super Bowl as the major reason.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the biggest thing is that I f\u2014ing love playing the game of football,\u201d Kelce said on his \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast in March. \u201cI love playing, I still feel like I can play at a high level. And possibly at a higher level than I did last year, I don\u2019t think it was my best outing. I let my guys down in a lot more moments than I helped them, especially if you look at my track record and how I\u2019ve been in years past. I just, you know, I wanna give it a good run.\u201d<\/p>\n The 2025 ESPY Awards, hosted by comedian Shane Gillis<\/strong>, air live July 16 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After failing to become the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive Super Bowls, the Kansas City Chiefs have also been denied the chance to win any ESPYS hardware this year. The Chiefs, including quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce, were snubbed when the nominations for the 2025 ESPY Awards were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1732,55,1729,1736,548,679,127,1735,333,19,438,1733,1726,1734,1731,1725,18,1730,1724,128,534,812,1728,1727,36],"class_list":["post-28844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-aja-wilson","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-best-nfl-player","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-denver-broncos","tag-indiana-fever","tag-josh-allen","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-lamar-jackson","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-napheesa-collier","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-nfl","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-saquon-barkley","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-travis-kelce"],"yoast_head":"\n<\/p>\n