Travis Kelce’s NFL Future in Jeopardy as Taylor Swift Channels His Struggles into Heartbreaking New Album—Is This the End for the Power Couple?

Kelce and Swift have dated since 2023

Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift love each other — but they may love working even more. Kelce‘s commitment to his craft has made him a three-time Super Bowl champion with the Kansas City Chiefs, and perhaps the greatest tight end ever to play in the NFL. Swift‘s dedication and songwriting prowess has made her the most successful solo artist of the decade, and perhaps the most famous woman on the planet.

But 2024 presented challenges for the world’s most famous couple, as Kelce faces the end of his Chiefs career and Swift dealt with jeering at Super Bowl LIX, where she watched the Chiefs suffer a humiliating loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Those experiences might be the harbinger of a new phase for Swift and Kelce, especially as the latter considers his retirement from the NFL after 12 stellar seasons.

Taylor planning a new album with Travis-inspired track

According to a bombshell report on Monday, Swift is preparing a new album that will be released by the end of 2025, as well as an accompanying tour — with her latest musical foray said to be inspired in part by Kelce’s struggles.

“Taylor is in the development stages of her new album which will be released at the end of the year,” an insider revealed to The Daily Express. “She wrote songs backstage on her last tour and bosses at AEG have been told to prepare themselves for another tour in 2026.”

The source claimed that the album’s focus would be on relationships, with specific songs about Kelce and Blake Lively supposedly earmarked for inclusion on the record. The album, which would be Swift’s 12th studio-based effort, would drop less than two years after “The Tortured Poets Department“, which eased to #1 on the Billboard 200 and made popularity gains when Swift began to incorporate songs from that record into the setlists of her record-smashing Eras Tour.

Swift’s relationship with Kelce has also deepened since her last album was released, and Kelce’s NFL future could determine the aggressiveness of Swift’s schedule. The Chiefs have given Kelce a “soft deadline” of March 14 to decide his NFL future; if he stays in Kansas City, he might have a reduced role in 2025 after enduring the worst statistical season of his career in 2024.

Only time will tell, and the first domino to fall could be the 35-year-old Kelce’s choice on retirement, which would give Swift even more flexibility to record her next album and organize her next tour, away from the stress of the NFL season.