For the third consecutive year, Kansas City Chiefs TE Travis Kelce won’t take the No. 1 spot in ESPN’s tight end rankings. Instead, Kelce is again ranked as the No. 2 tight end in the league behind San Francisco 49ers TE George Kittle. One NFL decision-maker even ranked Kelce as low as the No. 4 tight end in the NFL.
It’s almost comical at this point, with Kelce continuing to stack the most impressive career accolades. Kelce has been the pinnacle of reliability and production as a receiver, but he continues to be discredited on some absurd idea that he’s not an adequate blocker. ESPN says that Kittle will, “always have the blocking advantage over him.” Maybe that will be the case purely because of usage, as Kansas City doesn’t use Kelce as a blocker as much as they used to.
