Travis Kelce has added another line to a resume that keeps swallowing record books whole.
On Sunday night in Seattle, the Chiefs tight end passed Tony Gonzalez for the most receiving yards by a tight end in NFL history when postseason games are included. Kelce did it with a 19-yard catch in the fourth quarter against the Seahawks at Lumen Field.
That grab gave Kelce 41 receiving yards in the game and pushed his career total to 15,380. He entered the night at 15,379, just 34 yards shy of Gonzalez’s mark of 15,413.
Kelce reached that number by stacking together 13,301 receiving yards in regular-season games and 2,078 more in the playoffs. Gonzalez had finished with 15,127 regular-season yards and 286 in postseason play.
The milestone comes a little more than two years after Kelce passed Gonzalez as the Chiefs’ franchise leader in receptions. At the time, Kelce paid tribute to the Hall of Fame tight end on the New Heights podcast.
“Tony, I love you brother, and I can’t thank you enough for who you are as a person and who you’ve been in my career,” Kelce said at the time. “And I’ve taken everything you’ve taught me and I’ve ran with it, man.
And I’ve tried to become better because of it. And, yeah, just love that guy, man.
It’s an honor.”
Now Kelce owns the Chiefs’ franchise lead in receptions, receiving yards and touchdown catches.
He also reached 1,103 career receptions Sunday night, moving into fifth place on the NFL’s all-time list and jumping past Cris Carter and Marvin Harrison.
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