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Travis Kelce’s new Chiefs backup has NEVER heard a Taylor Swift song but vows to get listening and ‘copy everything’ the Kansas City star does after getting picked in the draft
but vows to start listening to her and ‘copy everything’ the Kansas City star does after being picked in the draft.
Wiley, 23, was selected as one of two fourth-round picks (131st overall) by the Chiefs last month and is the first tight end to feature on the team straight out of college since Kansas City drafted backup Noah Gray in the fifth round of the 2021 NFL Draft. Gray will enter the final season of his rookie deal this upcoming fall.
But, on top of a whole new playbook to learn this upcoming season, the former TCU player will also have to start remembering lyrics to some of Swift’s hits if he wants to be on Kelce’s good side straight from the get-go. ‘Him signing that extension, there’s probably nobody that was more excited than me,’ Wiley said. ‘Just being able to have a little bit more time with him to just learn under him and see what he does every day. That’s, in my opinion, the best tight end to ever play the game, honestly.
‘I know that it might take couple of years for me to even start kind of scratching the surface to be on that level. So the fact that I now can just kind of sit back and just be like ”Ok how can I find my way on the field in Year One?” Ok, Year One’s done. Ok. Now, how can I start transitioning my game to something else? That was a really big deal for m