A former Texas Longhorns quarterback turned up at one of the most talked-about celebrity weddings of the weekend, and this one came with a direct Kansas City Chiefs connection.
Shane Buechele and his wife, Paige, were among the invitees at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding at Madison Square Garden in New York City, with the couple sharing on social media Saturday that they had made the guest list. For Texas fans, it was a small but notable tie-in to an event that has dominated headlines in recent days.
Buechele’s presence makes a little more sense once you look at his NFL path. The 28-year-old spent three total seasons across two separate stints with the Chiefs, with most of that time coming on the practice squad. Even without many game snaps, that stretch appears to have been enough for him to build a real relationship with Kelce - and with Patrick Mahomes, among others.
In Buechele’s lone regular-season appearance for Kansas City, he completed two passes to Kelce in a 14-12 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 18 of the 2025 campaign. He finished that game 7 of 14 for 88 yards in what was essentially a meaningless outing, since the Chiefs had already been eliminated from postseason contention.
Still, the Chiefs brought him back for a second practice-squad stint, a clear sign they valued what he added to the room.
Buechele’s Texas career had its own memorable beginning. He made his college debut in 2016 and helped lead the Longhorns to a 50-47 double-overtime upset of No.
10 Notre Dame. He went 16 of 26 for 280 yards, threw two touchdowns, had one interception and also ran for a score in that game.
He looked like the quarterback of the future in Austin before Sam Ehlinger took over the starting job early in the 2017 season. Buechele later transferred to SMU and then went undrafted in the 2021 NFL Draft.
Over three seasons at Texas, he appeared in 23 games and completed 403 of 648 passes for 4,636 yards, 30 touchdowns and 16 interceptions.
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