Travis Kelce’s stats from games that his girlfriend Taylor Swift has attended speak volumes.
Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs are one game away from returning to the Super Bowl, with the reigning champions set to welcome the Buffalo Bills to the Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday.
Swift will likely be in attendance for the encounter, which given Kelce’s performances when she’s previously been in the stands, is a good omen for the Chiefs.
The pop star has been at nearly every Chiefs home game this season, including the season-opening victory over the Baltimore Ravens, the win over the Cincinnati Bengals, and the Monday night victories over the New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce pictured in New York (Image: Getty)
She also witnessed the victory against the Denver Broncos, the Black Friday game against the Las Vegas Raiders and the regular season finale against the Houston Texans, only missing the Week 14 game against the Los Angeles Chargers because of a clash with her Eras tour.
The eighth and last game Swift attended was the matchup against the Texans that saw Kansas City edge one step closer to Super Bowl 49 and the opportunity of a three-peat.
In the eight games Swift has watched live, Kelce has a combined 54 catches for 488 receiving yards and two touchdowns. That’s an average of 6.8 catches and 61 receiving yards per game.
Travis Kelce stats when Taylor Swift is watching
Taylor Swift (top left) watches on as Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs face Houston Texans in the NFL playoffs (Image: Getty)
Kelce’s stats for the games she has attended are as follows:
- Week 1 vs. Ravens: three catches, 34 yards
- Week 2 vs. Bengals: one catch, 5 yards
- Week 5 vs. Saints: nine catches, 70 yards
- Week 9 vs. Buccaneers: 14 catches, 100 yards
- Week 10 vs. Broncos: eight catches, 64 yards and one touchdown
- Week 13 vs. Raiders: seven catches, 68 yards
- Week 16 vs. Texans: five catches, 30 yards
- Divisional round vs. Texans: seven catches, 117 yards and one touchdown
The Chiefs are 8-0 this term with Swift watching live, while they are 8-1 when Swift isn’t there and Kelce has played.
Kelce has done better when Swift is in the stands, having wracked up a combined 50 receptions for 452 receiving yards and two touchdowns when she hasn’t attended. That averages to 5.6 catches for 50.2 yards per game.
Here are his stats for the games she has missed:
- Week 3 vs. Falcons: four catches, 30 yards
- Week 4 vs. Chargers: seven catches, 89 yards
- Week 7 vs. 49ers: four catches, 17 yards
- Week 8 vs. Raiders: 10 catches, 90 yards and one touchdown
- Week 11 vs. Bills: two catches, 8 yards
- Week 12 vs. Panthers: six catches, 62 yards
- Week 14 vs. Chargers: five catches, 45 yards
- Week 15 vs. Browns: four catches, 27 yards
- Week 17 vs. Steelers: eight catches, 84 yards and one touchdown
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In a recent media appearance, Travis Kelce revealed that Taylor Swift will be in attendance at his next NFL game.
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end has been dating the pop icon since 2023 and Swift has been spotted in an executive box at the team’s Arrowhead home stadium on multiple occasions since then.
She was also present when Kelce and co. secured a second successive Super Bowl crown last year, even taking to the field at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, to celebrate with her beau after the Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers 25-22.
However, a recent poll showed that some NFL players are not in favour of Swift’s appearances at games due to the amount of attention her presence garners.
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift after the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl- Getty
Out of 102 NFL players anonymously polled in a survey conducted by The Athletic, 72.5 per cent deemed Swift’s presence at games and the ‘coverage that stemmed from it’ is positive for the league.
Five players viewed the singer’s involvement as a negative for the NFL, while 23 were ‘somewhere in the middle’ on the matter. And some were outspoken about the unfairness of the airtime Swift receives.
“I feel like she is getting unnecessary coverage,” one unnamed player said.
“There was the whole NFL opening season video on Twitter and she was featured five times and our quarterback was featured none. That’s not even right. She is not the NFL.”
