Meet the FamTravis Kelce’s Family Is Just as Famous as He Is! Meet His NFL Star Brother, Parents and More

Travis Kelce

We have to start with the man himself! Travis is considered one of the best tight ends of all time in the NFL. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2013 NFL Draft and later won Super Bowls LIV and LVII with his team.

Travis is originally from Ohio, and grew up in Cleveland where he grew up playing football and several other sports. He played college football at the University of Cincinnati, along with his older brother, Jason.

For those who don’t know, Travis was the star of a 2016 E! News dating show called Catching Kelce, which he later revealed he regretted. “It was extremely awkward,” the football player said on The Pivot in 2023. Awkward or not, he still briefly dated the winner of Catching Kelce,  Maya Benberry, until the two broke up shortly after the show premiered.
Following that relationship, he began to date on-air sports reporter Kayla Nicole in 2017, and they were together for around five years. As of 2023, when Travis spoke to The Pivot, the two had split. “I’m in the free market right now. I’m out there just enjoying life, focused on my profession,” he said.

Jason Kelce and Kylie Kelce

Jason is two years older than Travis, and also played multiple sports while growing up, including football, of course. He was a “walk-on” player at the University of Cincinnati’s football team, meaning he did not receive a scholarship.

A former running back, Jason switched to fullback and then finally to offensive line after “redshirting” his initial year in college. A “red-shirt” is a delay or suspension of an athlete’s participation in order to lengthen their period of eligibility. Kelce was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He has one Super Bowl win with the Eagles in 2018.

In 2022, Jason played against his brother at the Super Bowl LVI, making it the first Super Bowl to feature two brothers on opposing teams as players. Jason and the Eagles lost to Travis and the Chiefs 38 to 35. In September 2023, Jason’s documentary Kelce was released, which saw the behind-the-scenes of his 2022-2023 football season, which he initially believed might have been his last season in the NFL.

Jason is married to Kylie McDevitt, and the couple share three daughters together. Fun fact: they met on Tinder!

Donna Kelce

Donna Kelce, also known as Mama Kelce, hails from Cleveland, Ohio. Now retired, she worked in finance and earned a Bachelor of Science in communications from Ohio University. Along with being a working mom, Donna nurtured her sons love so sports from a young age. The two boys started playing hockey at the age of three and indicated an interest in football from a young age — but it wasn’t until middle school that she let her sons play for safety reasons.

“Nobody ever says, ‘I was the best peewee football player ever.’ And it’s not very well organized. So there’s always suspect to parents and injuries and things like that,” she told the New York Post in a January 2023 interview. “They’re not really trained coaches, so I made them wait until they were in middle school to play football. They played seventh and eighth grade.”

Since her sons faced off at the 2022 Super Bowl, she has become beloved by football fans for her unwavering support. Donna is divorced from Travis and Jason’s dad, Ed Kelce. The ex-couple tied the knot in the late 1970s and stayed together for nearly 25 years before calling it quits, and they remain on good terms today.

Ed Kelce

Travis and Jason’s dad, Ed Kelce, used to work as a sales rep selling products to steel manufacturers but is now retired. He also has a history with football, which helped spark his sons’ own passion with the sport.

Ed’s dreams of college football were cut short when he decided to try joining the army, following in the footsteps of his military family. “Everybody in my family prior to me was in the service,” Ed said during an episode of his sons’ podcast, “New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce.” “We’re also talking about family [that] lived through World War II, so that’s what everybody did because that was the background.”

However, his application was rejected by the Army due to a pre-existing knee injury. He eventually began a successful career in the steel industry and is still close with his sons and has a good relationship with his ex-wife.