Travis Kelce has gone from NFL star to full-blown pop culture sensation, a far cry from the career path he once imagined. Now, in 2025, he’s laser-focused on one “only goal,” and it’s not what you imagined.
In an interview with GQ, he claims that amid all the chatter surrounding his relationship with Taylor Swift, he’s got a more serious issue to deal with. He is looking to regroup from the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl loss by working with speed and agility coach Tony Villani.
“Win a Super Bowl is the only goal,” Kelce reveals. “It’s the only goal. It’s every goal.”
He added, “I think it might have slipped a little bit because I did have a little bit more focus in trying to set myself up. And opportunities came up where I was excited to venture into a new world of acting and being an entertainer.”
While Kelce doesn’t feel his outside ventures hurt his football career, he realizes that he hasn’t been working up to his “standard.” He says, “I don’t say this as ‘I shouldn’t have done it.’ I’m just saying that my work ethic is such that I have so much pride in how I do things that I never want the product to tail off.”
“I feel like these past two years haven’t been up to my standard. I just have such a motivation to show up this year for my guys.”
This motivation pushes Kelce to try and remain a role model. He knows he has a worldwide platform not only via his football career, but also via his relationship with Swift.
The athlete admits,
“I do want people to look at me like I’m doing good in the world, I’m influencing and using my platform for the better, being a role model, being somebody that has done it the right way.”
Kelce hosts the New Heights podcast with his brother, Jason Kelce.
