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At 6’5” and 250 pounds, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has that rare combination of size and speed that makes him unstoppable on the football field.

His formidable size allows him to block defensive linemen, while his speed and agility enable him to catch passes from quarterback Patrick Mahomes and run with the ball.

Kelce’s exceptional athleticism, his ability to read defenses, and his strong connection with Mahomes has made him one of the best tight ends in NFL history, and he holds records for most consecutive seasons with 1,000+ receiving yards (seven), most receiving yards in a single season (1,416 in 2020), and most receptions in the Super Bowl (35).

A 10-time Pro Bowler who’s played in five Super Bowls and won three, Kelce recently celebrated his 35th birthday, a milestone for any player in the NFL, but he says he has no plans to hang up his cleats anytime soon.

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Despite Kelce’s many achievements, his most significant contribution to the game of football may actually come off the field, in the form of his relationship with one of the most popular musicians in history, Taylor Swift. Not only has the billionaire pop superstar increased NFL viewership among female demographics, she has also helped expand his reach in the entertainment industry—and beyond—which has added handsomely to his bottom line.

So, how much is Travis Kelce worth in 2025?

What’s Travis Kelce’s net worth in 2025?

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Travis Kelce has an estimated net worth of $90 million in 2025.

In the first ten years of his NFL career, the footballer earned slightly less than $80 million:

His initial contract with Kansas City was a four-year, $3.12 million deal signed in 2013. It included a $703,304 signing bonus.
In 2016, Kelce signed a five-year extension worth $46 million, which included $20 million in guaranteed money.
In 2020, with two years left on his contract, Kelce signed a four-year extension for $57.25 million, with $28 million in guarantees.
In April 2024, Kelce signed a two-year extension worth $34.25 million along with $17 million in guarantees.
As part of the team that won Super Bowl LIV in 2020, Super Bowl LVII in 2023, and Super Bowl LVIII in 2024, Kelce received more than glitzy rings (although they, too, are valuable); according to the NFL collective bargaining agreement, he was also awarded bonuses of $130,000 in 2020, $164,000 in 2023, and $171,000 in 2024.
In 2025, Kelce’s salary with the Chiefs is estimated at $17 million.

When all is said and done, the famed tight end will have amassed more than $100 million in career earnings from football alone, but in light of Kelce’s romance with Swift, when it comes to income generation, he might be just getting started.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce generate buzz wherever they go, including their date nights in New York City.

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What is the ‘Taylor Swift effect?’

In her music, Taylor Swift sings about a “single thread of gold” that connects her to her lover and signifies their enduring bond.

But her lyrics could also be taken literally. Everything Swift touches turns to gold, and the superstar is credited with helping to drive trends in pop culture—generating massive revenue in the process.

Take her first appearance at Kelce’s football game on October 1, 2023. The Kansas City Chiefs took on the New York Jets in a “Sunday Night Football” broadcast, and Swift was featured several times on the big screen—and more than 2 million female viewers tuned in to watch.

According to Nielsen, viewership among teenage girls ages 12–17 rose 53%, while viewership among young women aged 18–24 increased 24%, and viewership among women 35+ was up 34%.

But Swift’s influence doesn’t just end with publicity—she has an impact on tickets and merchandise as well. According to Yahoo! Sports, after her first appearance, sales of Kelce’s jersey spiked 400%, while Stubhub reported a 175% increase in ticket sales. The NFL’s social media accounts have enjoyed a similar boost, particularly on younger platforms like TikTok.

In fact, Marketwatch estimates that Swift has made the NFL almost $1 billion since she started dating Travis Kelce in 2023.

Travis Kelce’s early life and football career

Travis Michael Kelce was born on October 5, 1989, in Westlake, Ohio. His father, Ed, was a salesman in the steel industry, while his mother, Donna, was a bank executive. Kelce has one sibling, an older brother named Jason, who played 13 seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles. The family’s heritage is Croatian.

Kelce attended Cleveland Heights High School, where he was a triple threat, playing football, basketball, and baseball. He received scholarship offers from Akron, Eastern Michigan, and Miami University of Ohio, but he ultimately accepted an offer from the University of Cincinnati.

However, Kelce was suspended for the 2010 season when he tested positive for marijuana. He redeemed himself by returning to the field and being named Tight End of the Year in 2013. He graduated with a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies in 2022.

The Kansas City Chiefs selected Kelce in the third round of the NFL Draft in 2013.

Travis Kelce’s business ventures

Capitalizing on his newfound fame with the Chiefs, not long after he was drafted, Kelce set his sights on something bigger than football: Hollywood.

TV and documentary appearances

In 2016, the tight end starred in the E! reality dating show “Catching Kelce.” He also appeared in the Showtime comedy series “Moonbase 8” in 2020, and in the Amazon Prime docu-series “Kelce,” which focused on his big brother Jason. I

n 2024, Kelce starred in another Prime series, “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?” This time as the host. The 20-episode series was renewed in 2025.

Kelce has hosted “Saturday Night Live,” appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” and served as an executive producer on two 2024 dramas: “My Dead Friend Zoe” and “King Pleasure” (2024). He also appeared in the Ryan Murphy production, “Grotesquerie,” in 2024 and in Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore 2 in 2025.

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Music festivals

Admitting to Forbes that his world “revolves around music,” in 2023, Kelce started his own music festival in Bonner Springs, Kansas, called Kelce Jam. The lineup included Diplo, Machine Gun Kelly, and Lil Wayne and drew crowds of 18,000 and 20,000 in 2023 and 2024, respectively. The festival took a year-long hiatus in 2025 but plans to return in 2026—just in time for his girlfriend’s next tour.

Brands

In 2019, the famed athlete started his own health brand of performance nutrition supplements called Hilo Nutrition. In 2020, he launched his own clothing line, Tru Kolors, which rolled out a collab with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Kelce is also part-owner of Cholula Hot Sauce and an angel investor in Casa Azul tequila. Kelce and his brother Jason bought a majority stake in Garage Beer in 2024; Kelce also has a stake in the French Formula One racing team Alpine, along with his friends Ryan Reynolds and Patrick Mahomes. In addition, he has his own line of barbecue products, Travis Kelce’s Kitchen, inspired by Kansas City BBQ and sold at Walmart.

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Podcasts

But Kelce’s biggest claim to entertainment fame has been the podcast he co-hosts with brother Jason: “New Heights.” Started in 2022, the weekly podcast covers the NFL, celebrity interviews, and other sports news, along with some good, old-fashioned Kelce brothers’ reminiscing.

The podcast quickly became one of the top shows on Spotify and Apple, particularly when the brothers squared off in Super Bowl LVII in 2023; however, due to their positions on their respective team’s offensive lines, the brothers never actually played on the field at the same time.

In August 2024, Kelce and his brother signed a three-year, $100 million deal with Amazon to broadcast their show on the brand’s Wondery label. Not bad for a venture Kelce himself has described as his “personal dating app,” since it’s where he first lamented his attempt to give Swift a friendship bracelet he had made after attending her July 8, 2023, concert. (She heard about it and was charmed, and the rest is history)

In fact, when Swift appeared on the August 13, 2025, episode of “New Heights” to announce her next album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” she pulled in 19 million viewers on YouTube alone, setting a record for the podcast and increasing the show’s female listeners by 600%. In fact, so many people tuned in that the podcast hit a glitch that took several hours to restore.

While it’s true that Kelce was doing just fine in his life before he met his girlfriend, it can’t be argued that she has exponentially raised his profile, from his social media fanbase to the number of people wearing his jersey—regardless of whether or not they actually watch football.

Travis Kelce’s sponsorships

In addition to his own ventures, Kelce has inked million-dollar endorsement deals with global brands like Dick’s Sporting Goods, DirecTV, Bud Light, Experian, McDonald’s, Nike, Old Spice, Papa John’s, Pfizer, Sleep Number, T-Mobile, Tide, State Farm, and Walgreens.

Are Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift engaged?

Engagement speculation reached a fever pitch in July 2025, when Kelce shared photos of the couple on Instagram. One picture in particular caused a stir when fans zoomed in; they noticed a photo of Swift on Kelce’s lock screen appearing to flash a massive rock on her finger. E! News learned Swift wasn’t sporting an engagement ring but rather wearing one of Kelce’s three Super Bowl rings.

“Fans need to calm down,” the celebrity news site quipped.

When did Travis Kelce meet Taylor Swift?

After Kelce left Swift’s July 2023 Eras Tour concert empty-handed (he had made her friendship bracelets with his phone number in anticipation of the event), he complained about his missed opportunity on his New Heights podcast.

Swift heard about this and reached out to Kelce, later relating his romantic gesture to the famous scene from the 1989 hit, Say Anything:

“This kind of felt more like, I was in an ’80s John Hughes movie and he was just standing outside my window with a boombox just being like, ‘I want to date you. Do you want to go on a date with me? I made you friendship bracelets. Do you want to date me?’”

In September 2023, it was revealed and confirmed that Kelce and Swift were dating, and Swift made things official when she started attending Kelce’s football games.

Swift embracing Kelce on the field of State Farm Stadium after the Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 to win Super Bowl LVII was one of the most popular news stories of 2023.

Travis Kelce’s relationship history

Before becoming a Swiftie, Kelce dated Maya Benberry, the winner of “Catching Kelce” in 2016, although they had broken up by the following January.

Kelce then started dating social media influencer Kayla Nicole Brown, and their relationship lasted from 2017 to May 2022. On her podcast “The Pre-Game,” Brown admitted that she felt uncomfortable dating in the public eye, adding, “I don’t think I ever want to publicly date another man until I am absolutely sure that they are my long-term person.”

Travis Kelce’s real estate portfolio

Apparently, Kelce’s “glow up” after he began dating Swift included real estate, too.

In 2019, he bought a 10,000-square-foot mansion in the Kansas City suburb of Briarcliff West for $995,000.

But in October 2023, Architectural Digest reported that Kelce purchased a second, bigger home in the KC area—this one for $6 million. The mansion boasts 17,000 square feet on nearly 4 acres of land, with six bedrooms and six bathrooms, a six-car garage, a wine cellar, a tennis court, a miniature golf course, and a large swimming pool.

Ostensibly, the couple was in need of some privacy, because, as Swift put it so well “Romance is not dead if you keep it just yours.”