By the time Jason Kelce retired this spring, after a 13-year career with the Philadelphia Eagles, he had earned status as one of the NFL’s most famous people, owing to a combination of his elite play, his presence as one half of a highly marketable tandem of brothers, and his loving relationship with the fans in a crucible of a sports town.
This is not the sort of thing that happens to offensive linemen. But in Kelce’s last year and a half in the NFL, three things happened. Jason and his wife, Kylie, appeared with their children in a Prime Video documentary that tracked the family during a football season. Jason and brother Travis launched a podcast. And then Travis started dating the most famous woman in the world. When Jason retired in March, he found himself in the unusual position of being considerably more in-demand as a former player than he was as a cornerstone lineman for an NFC East franchise. It has all been an adjustment, albeit a happy one. “We’re just going with it one day at a time,” he says.
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