Kansas City Chiefs · Human Resources · October 19, 2026
We Wrote Travis Kelce’s Resume. He Is Overqualified for Every Job on It.
Tight end. Podcast host. Beer co-owner. Game show host. Actor. SNL host. Festival founder. Three-time Super Bowl champion. We put it all on one page and sent it to the hiring committee.
Travis Kelce is 37 years old, in his 14th NFL season, and still catching touchdowns for a Kansas City team that has not lost a game. He is also, at the same time, a podcast host, a beer brand owner, a former game show host and an actor with a credit for playing a waiter. At some point the normal way of describing him stopped working, so we tried the format everybody understands.
Below is his resume, written out in full. Every line is real and on the record. The recruiter notes and the interview scorecard are ours.
- Drafted in the third round, 63rd overall, out of the University of Cincinnati.
- Won Super Bowls LIV, LVII and LVIII. Also appeared in LV and LIX, which we will not discuss.
- Four-time first-team All-Pro and eleven-time Pro Bowler.
- Set the NFL record for receiving yards in a season by a tight end (1,416 in 2020) and for 1,000-yard seasons by a tight end (seven straight).
- Passed Jerry Rice for the most postseason receptions in NFL history. Holds the record for Super Bowl receptions with 35.
- Currently signed to a three-year, $54.7 million contract, at age 37, in season 14.
- Launched the show with brother Jason Kelce in September 2022.
- Show’s Amazon deal reported at more than $100 million. Most tight ends do not have a media division.
- Co-owns the lager brand with Jason Kelce.
- Named Coolest New Beer Brand in Rolling Stone’s 2026 RS Spirits Awards, during a football season, while 4-0.
- Hosted 20 episodes of a primetime game show. Was, presumably, smarter than at least some of the celebrities.
- Played Ed Laclan across five episodes of FX’s Grotesquerie.
- Played “The Waiter” in Happy Gilmore 2. Every resume needs one role that is just a job title.
- Hosted about three weeks after winning Super Bowl LVII. Live from New York.
- Started a music festival in Bonner Springs, Kansas, first held on NFL Draft weekend in 2023. Drew about 18,000 people in year one and about 20,000 in year two.
- Starred in a dating show named after himself. Listed here in the interest of full disclosure.
Notes From the Hiring Committee
The Interview
The Football Part, Since That Is Still the Day Job
| The football part | Numbers |
|---|---|
| 2026, five games (Week 5 bye) | 20 catches, 299 yards, 2 touchdowns |
| Best 2026 game | Week 3 at Miami: two catches, 59 yards, a late touchdown in a 24-10 win |
| Most recent | Sunday vs the Chargers: four catches, 53 yards, a taped ankle and a 22-6 win |
| Career, by our count | 1,100 catches and 13,301 receiving yards |
| 2025 | 76 catches, 851 yards, five touchdowns; the Chiefs went 6-11 and missed the playoffs |
Before the season there were questions about whether Kelce had anything left. Through three games he had 14 catches for 231 yards and two touchdowns, and ClutchPoints wrote that he had beaten the “washed” allegations after a late touchdown sealed a win in Miami. Week 4 was quieter, two catches for 15 yards in a win over the Raiders. Then came the bye, then a 22-6 win over the Chargers on Sunday in which he tweaked his ankle, got it taped and kept playing. He said afterward he would be sore and fine. Kansas City goes to Seattle next Sunday night.
Most players spend their careers trying to hold one job. Travis Kelce has a Hall of Fame tight end career, a podcast, a beer brand, a game show, two acting credits, an SNL hosting gig and a music festival, and he is still catching touchdowns at 37 for a Chiefs team that is 5-0. The resume is ridiculous. The hiring committee approves it anyway.
If he is on your shortlist too, the Travis Kelce shirt in Planet Euphoria’s Kelce design collection is original hand-drawn art, not a name-and-number print. It is hand-printed to order in Schenectady, New York and numbered out of 500, which is a shorter run than Kelce’s list of side jobs.
One design, hand-drawn, hand-printed to order in Schenectady, New York, and numbered out of 500.
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An entertainment piece. The resume format, recruiter notes, interview ratings and hiring decision are invented for fun. Every fact on the resume is real and was checked October 19, 2026, against his published record, Yahoo Sports, Athlon Sports, ClutchPoints, NBC Sports and Men’s Journal. His 2026 line is the sum of his verified weekly lines, and his career totals add those weeks to his published career line through Week 2. Reports of television interest are speculation, not offers. No athlete, team, network or company is affiliated with or endorses this article.