A former Texas Longhorns quarterback ended up on the guest list for one of the biggest celebrity weddings of the weekend.
Shane Buechele and his wife, Paige, were in attendance for 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 were part of the exclusive invite list. For Texas fans, it was a small but notable connection to an event that has dominated headlines.
Buechele’s link to Kelce makes the appearance a little less surprising than it first sounds. The 28-year-old spent three total seasons with the Chiefs across two separate stints, mostly on the practice squad, and that time appears to have helped him build real relationships inside the locker room.
In his lone regular-season game with Kansas City, Buechele completed two passes to Kelce in a 14-12 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 18 of the 2025 campaign. He finished 7 of 14 for 88 yards in a game that carried no postseason weight, since the Chiefs had already been eliminated.
Still, those years around the organization mattered. Buechele was around teammates like Kelce and Patrick Mahomes long enough to earn trust, and Kansas City brought him back for a second practice-squad stint.
Before his NFL stops, Buechele made his name at Texas. He burst onto the scene in 2016 with a 50-47 double-overtime win over No.
10 Notre Dame in his college debut, throwing for 280 yards, two touchdowns and an interception while also running for a score. He went 16 of 26 in that game.
For a while, he looked like the Longhorns’ quarterback of the future, until Sam Ehlinger took over the starting job early in the 2017 season. Buechele later transferred to SMU and went undrafted in the 2021 NFL Draft.
Across three seasons at Texas, Buechele played in 23 games and completed 403 of 648 passes for 4,636 yards, 30 touchdowns and 16 interceptions.
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