Kelce's 18.8% target rate and age-37 profile make him a TD-variance play, not a volume anchor.
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Kelce is now drafted as tight end 10, 91st overall on Yahoo, despite being tight end eight in points per game last season. At age 37, his target rate fell to a career-low 18.8% of routes last year—his first season below 20%. He has been below 1.5 yards per route run in each of the last two years and scored five or fewer touchdowns in three consecutive seasons. The source theorizes that Kelce and Rashee Rice cannot both be good simultaneously because they overlap in the same area of the field (zone and underneath routes); since Rice is younger, faster, and more athletic, Kelce has shifted from being a dependable target and opportunity player to a touchdown-variance tight end.
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He was targeted on a career low 18.8% of his routes last year... He's been below 1.5 yards per route run in each of the last two years... scored five or fewer touchdowns in three consecutive seasons.
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- What did Underdog Fantasy Football Show say about Travis Kelce?
- Kelce is now drafted as tight end 10, 91st overall on Yahoo, despite being tight end eight in points per game last season. At age 37, his target rate fell to a career-low 18.8% of routes last year—his first season below 20%. He has been below 1.5 yards per route run in each of the last two years and scored five or fewer touchdowns in three consecutive seasons. The source theorizes that Kelce and Rashee Rice cannot both be good simultaneously because they overlap in the same area of the field (zone and underneath routes); since Rice is younger, faster, and more athletic, Kelce has shifted from being a dependable target and opportunity player to a touchdown-variance tight end.
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- STACKED tags this as a positive fantasy football signal for Travis Kelce (TE KC). Kelce's 18.8% target rate and age-37 profile make him a TD-variance play, not a volume anchor.
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- Travis Kelce's complete 2026 fantasy football outlook — projections, ADP movement across every platform, injury context, and all source-backed STACKED insights — is on their STACKED player profile.
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