Travis Kelce’s new Chiefs backup has NEVER heard a Taylor Swift song but vows to get listening and ‘copy everything’ the Kansas City star does after getting picked in the draft

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Jared Wiley – Travis Kelce‘s new backup on the Chiefs – has claimed that he’s never heard a song by the team’s superfan, popstar Taylor Swift, but vows to start listening to her and ‘copy everything’ the Kansas City star does after being picked in the draft.

Wiley, 23, was selected as one of two fourth-round picks (131st overall) by the Chiefs last month and is the first tight end to feature on the team straight out of college since Kansas City drafted backup Noah Gray in the fifth round of the 2021 NFL Draft. Gray will enter the final season of his rookie deal this upcoming fall.

But, on top of a whole new playbook to learn this upcoming season, the former TCU player will also have to start remembering lyrics to some of Swift’s hits if he wants to be on Kelce’s good side straight from the get-go.

‘I guess I better be one now,’ Wiley said of his Taylor Swift fandom, according to CBS Sports

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Chiefs plan to groom Wiley, a key contributor to TCU’s 2022 national runner-up season and a featured target last season, for the day when Kelce decides to hang up the cleats. Wiley had 47 receptions for 520 yards and eight touchdowns in 2023.

Kelce, who turns 35 in Oct., is guaranteed to be the Chiefs’ first option at tight end for the next two seasons, at least, after reworking his contract to become the NFL’s highest-paid player in his position (two years, $34.25million – $17.175M per year), which will give Wiley a lot of time to learn from the three-time Super Bowl champion.