Travis Kelce is likely one of the coolest clients on the sector, however the Kansas City Chiefs ace has not all the time been recognized for his composure and maturity.
Kelce, 34, has been projected into an excellent brighter highlight ever since he began courting the pop colossus Taylor Swift. While he has hardly flown underneath the radar at final yr’s Super Bowl winners, he has been underneath the microscope even additional because of the new followers he has acquired from Swfit’s humongous attain.
Not that it has been affecting him. He was instrumental in the Chiefs’ 27-24 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, ending the sport with 75 yards and two touchdowns. Yet his former mentor and coach Jason Avant revealed he was once a difficult participant to work with.
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While talking on behalf of Action Network, Avant mentioned: “Travis Kelce is a perfectionist. I remember when coach Andy Reid took me there to help Kelce develop into a professional because he had a lot of immaturities coming out of college. He had a lot of issues and it was my job to help.
“He took that workmanlike strategy as a result of I wasn’t a man who was extremely proficient, however I might keep after training my catches. People requested me, how do you catch the ball a lot?
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“Then we had a playoff game and all of them froze up because they have never been in that moment, and the coach recognised that the only person he could trust in this situation was me. We only lost to the Patriots by a very narrow margin, but he came to me and said now I understand why Coach Reid had you here, and that’s the training. I believe Kelce has that, he’s a professional.”
During his youthful days, Kelce was additionally reprimanded by his coaches for smoking weed and different immature behaviours. However, it proved to be a get up name for the Chiefs’ tight finish.
“Travis Kelce was getting suspended and kicked off the team for immature things, weed and other stuff like that. Just being young, basically,” Avant added. “He stopped after joining the Chiefs, but now it’s legal so it wouldn’t matter now if he stopped it or not!
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“Jason Kelce went to Coach Reid because Coach Reid drafted Kelce, and he went to Reid and said if you draft him, he won’t be a problem for you. Travis became a pro and realised he had to take this seriously and he’s been doing that ever since.
“It’s not simply me relating to mentoring, they must have the flexibility to wish to do it. I instructed a bunch of different guys however they went down the incorrect path as an alternative.
“It’s not that I did something, it’s more that some guys see it, you just have to convince them that they have talent and they can have a better future going down this path than the other path.”