The Kansas City Chiefs had little to celebrate in a Week 7 loss to the Seattle Seahawks, but Travis Kelce still found a way to leave the night with a piece of NFL history.
In a game that ended 20-3 and felt even more one-sided than the final score suggested, Kelce climbed two major all-time leaderboards. He moved up in both regular-season receptions and tight end receiving yards, and in one of those categories he now stands alone at the top.
Kelce is now the NFL’s all-time leader among tight ends in receiving yards when regular season and playoffs are combined. He has 15,423 career receiving yards across those two settings, nudging past Tony Gonzalez, who sits at 15,413. Jason Witten is third all time with 13,532, and no other tight end is within 1,000 yards of either of the top two.
The record includes Kelce’s 13,345 regular-season yards and 2,078 playoff yards.
He also moved higher on the all-time regular-season receptions list. According to NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo, Kelce’s 1,104 catches pushed him past Marvin Harrison and into fifth place all time. Only Witten, Gonzalez, Larry Fitzgerald, and Jerry Rice sit ahead of him.
If you include the postseason, Kelce’s 178 playoff receptions give him 1,282 total catches, which puts him just ahead of Witten’s 1,273. Gonzalez, Fitzgerald, and Rice remain ahead of him there as well.
So even on a rough day for Kansas City, Kelce added to a resume that keeps getting stronger.
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