Andy Reid Addresses Claims That Travis Kelce's Wedding Is a Distraction
Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid shut down the speculation thatTravis Kelce is distracted by his upcoming wedding to Taylor Swiftamid NFL training camp.
"Listen, he has been here most of the offseason if not the whole offseason. He's been around. It is good to have him here," the longtime coach, 68, said of Kelce, 36, in a press conference on Friday, June 12. "He did the mandatory camp and [did] a nice job there. It's good to have him back in and rolling.
Reid added that Kelce is "very excited" for the upcoming football season and is doing his part to get ready for it amid the plans of his and Swift's nuptials. (Swift, 36 and Kelce announced their engagement in August 2025 and are expected to wed this summer.)
"You see no distractions with that and the wedding," Reid explained. "It's like when I got married my wife did everything, so I just kinda followed her lead on it."
Andy joked that he just "showed up" to his wedding to wife Tammy Reid adding maybe that Kelce is "doing more" than him.
"But he looks like he is pretty focused on this job," he said.
When asked if he was going to Swift and Kelce's wedding Andy joked that he "can't talk about it."
One day before the Chiefs coach's remarks, Kelce made a surprise appearance at Swift's induction to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Kelce was not expected to attend the event as the Chiefs are currently in the middle of mandatory minicamp which ended on Thursday, June 11.
While Swift walked the red carpet solo, Kelce joined his fiancée inside the ceremony Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City on Thursday. In addition to the football player, the pop star was joined by parents Andrea and Scott Swift, brother Austin Swift and Travis' mom Donna Kelce.
Taylor was being honored alongside Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of Kiss, Kenny Loggins, Alanis Morissette, Christopher "Tricky" Stewart and more. She was the youngest-ever female inductee, beaten only by Stevie Wonder, who was inducted at age 32.
During her speech, the "I Knew It, I Knew You" singer thanked her family for their support all these years.
"It was easy to choose songwriting over everything else in my life, but it couldn't have been easy for my parents and my brother to just pick up and move our entire family from Pennsylvania to relocate to Nashville so that I could hone my craft in the songwriting capital of the world," she said, per Variety. "But after making obvious that this was not even remotely a temporary phase their teen daughter was going through, they uprooted their entire lives to move me to Music City. And even though words are supposed to kind of be my thing, I will never be able to express my gratitude to you guys for doing that for me. You're the reason I'm here tonight."
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This story was originally published June 12, 2026 at 6:10 PM.