Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs are enjoying a well-earned bye in the first round of the NFL playoffs after finishing the 2024 regular season with an impressive 15-2 record.

On Wednesday, the NFL announced the Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce won the 2024 Nationwide Charity Challenge. The Nationwide Charity Challenge is a major portion of the 2024 Walter Payton Man of the Year criteria and will help aid Kelce’s as he endeavors to win his first Walter Payton Man of the Year award.

I didn't think Minnesota was going to be that dominant," Kelce said while talking with his brother and former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce about playoff-bound teams that surprised them the most ( via "New Heights" podcast ).

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) was fired up after making a reception in the first quarter against the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Tammy Ljungblad tljungblad@kcstar.com

The first round of the NFL postseason kicks off this weekend with Wild Card Playoffs in both the AFC and the NFC conferences — but the reigning Super Bowl champs will not be playing a game. The Kansas City Chiefs clinched the No. 1 seed in the AFC following their 2024 Christmas victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Amid unfounded rumors that the Chiefs purposefully gave up during their loss to Denver to ensure the Bengals would be eliminated, Travis Kelce delivered a fired-up message to Cincinnati saying that he wasn’t “scared of f---ing nobody” and that having the Bengals in the playoffs would have been “fun.”