Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce earned a fine after the AFC championship game for getting up in the face of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin following a Chiefs touchdown.
Though Kelce had a similar moment in his team’s Super Bowl loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, this time he managed to avoid the NFL’s wrath.
A viral clip from the Super Bowl showed Kelce in a heated moment with Eagles defensive tackle Jordan Davis.
After the Chiefs tight end took a hard hit, he got into Davis’ face and pushed the Eagles defender.
Kelce was not flagged for taunting or unnecessary roughness for the play, and the NFL ultimately determined he would not face a fine, either.
The league on Feb. 15 announced two fines from the Super Bowl — a $14,069 fine for Eagles defensive tackle Milton Williams for spiking the football over the crossbar after forcing a fumble, and a $5,690 fine to Eagles linebacker Jalyx Hunt for what the league called a “violent gesture.”
watching this and seeing jordan davis not even move an inch when kelce pushes him is hilarious to me pic.twitter.com/hmF3OqCtRz — iBLsmooth (@theblancaster) February 12, 2025 Kelce did not earn a fine for his heated moments with Davis, though some fans believed he could have deserved one.
“Travis Kelce is the only player allowed to repeatedly taunt others….never gets a flag,” one fan wrote on X in response to the clip of Kelce’s run-in with Davis.
Others suggested that Kelce was trying to get under the skin of the Eagles defenders, a gambit that didn’t seem to work as the Eagles defense hounded the Chiefs en route to a 40-22 win. “I think they were shown footage and coached HARD not to fall for his chatter,” a fan wrote on X.
“He likes to talk and goat the other team into a reaction and get them flagged. Eagles were disciplined.”