Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has started the 2024 season slower than what fans would have expected going into the year.

After a ninth Pro Bowl season, Kelce has only gotten seven targets and has four catches for 39 yards. He only had one catch for five yards in the Chiefs’ win over the Cincinnati Bengals this past weekend.

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Kelce was hurt in the first game of the 2023 season. When he finally got on the field, he had four catches on nine targets for 26 yards. He had a touchdown. In his second game, he had seven catches on eight targets for 69 yards and also had one touchdown.

The 34-year-old star player, who is nearing his 35th birthday, is looking exactly like that – a 35-year-old football player. 

But is there something else to blame? ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith seemed to think so. He invoked Taylor Swift when talking about Kelce’s performance on Monday’s "First Take."

"I love my brother from another in Travis Kelce, but we saw more of Taylor Swift than we saw of Travis Kelce yesterday, on a Sunday afternoon," Smith said. "That wasn’t supposed to happen. We were supposed to see more of Travis Kelce yesterday than we saw of her.

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"That’s not happening though. You’ve got to get going, you’ve got 39 receiving yards in the first two games. Come on now. Football season is here. Honeymoon’s over. Let’s handle our business, OK."

It could be part of the game plan as well. Through the first two games, Kansas City’s tight ends have only been targeted 11 times – Kelce, Noah Gray and Jared Wiley all receiving the targets. The team has used Isiah Pacheco and Xavier Worthy as complements to Rashee Rice early in the year.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid was asked whether teams were doing more to take Kelce away.

"They did have some things that they were attempting there," Reid said Monday. "He’ll get his catches. It’s not that he’s slowing down or any of that bit, that’s not what the deal is. It’s just teams focus on him and kind of know (that) he’s been Pat’s (Mahomes) go-to guy. What it’s done though, Soren (Petro), is that it’s allowed us to utilize the other guys around him and they’ve been productive."

But with Pacheco going down, one of the tight ends is going to need to step up more and get open for Patrick Mahomes.

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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the only union among the nation's top 10 that hasn't endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in her 2024 faceoff with former President Trump, could make an announcement later this week on whom they're backing in the White House race.

"We are going to look at any and all options, and I can’t commit to what we’re going to do," Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien told reporters at the union's national headquarters in the nation's capital.

O'Brien spoke after he and other Teamsters leaders met behind closed doors with Harris on Monday for a roundtable discussion.

The vice president didn't speak with reporters as she departed the Teamsters headquarters after making her pitch, as the Democrats' presidential nominee works to maintain her party's traditional high level of support from organized labor.

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O’Brien late last year announced the union’s first-ever interview process for their 2024 presidential endorsement and invited the major party candidates to make their cases.

The Teamsters met earlier this year with Trump and separately with President Biden, whom Harris succeeded atop the Democrats' national ticket two months ago.

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O'Brien made history in July as he became the first Teamsters president to address a Republican National Convention.

But his speech also sparked controversy, as he drew the ire of some other top Teamsters leaders and some of the rank-and-file membership. Democrats didn't invite O'Brien to address their convention last month in Chicago.

O'Brien said on Monday that the Teamsters are finishing up their polling of the union's membership ahead of an executive board meeting on Wednesday, and added that the results of the polling would be publicly released.

He said the endorsement is "going to come down to the rank and file members, the polling and also the discussion and deliberation of the general executive board."

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"There’s no secret that the Teamsters union is very different than most unions, and I mean that with total respect; we represent everybody from airline pilots and zookeepers, O’Brien noted. "We don’t just represent registered Democrats, we represent registered Republicans and independents, and so we have to take [that] into consideration."

"We need to make sure we make the right decisions," he emphasized. "Our sole focus is representing those workers, negotiating strong contracts and organizing new members."

O’Brien said the Teamsters asked the same questions of Harris that they did of Biden earlier this year and noted that the president and vice president gave similar answers. 

"There wasn’t a whole lot of difference," he said.

The Teamsters have asked the presidential candidates about their support for the PRO Act, a sweeping set of union-friendly changes to federal labor law, as well as where they stand on bankruptcy reform and antitrust policies.

Biden made history as the first sitting president to join striking workers on a picket line, and O'Brien highlighted that Biden has been "great for unions."

O'Brien also reiterated his criticism of Trump's recent comments in an interview with billionaire business mogul Elon Musk – when the former president praised the tech CEO for retaliating against striking workers by firing them – which is illegal.

Asked if Trump's comments would impact the Teamsters endorsement, O'Brien said "it plays into the decision."

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