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Inside the 'crazy' story of how the UC Bearcats turned Chiefs star Travis Kelce into a tight end

Travis Kelce wasn’t planning on having one of the most important conversations of his life during his high school graduation party.

It was three months before Kelce started his college career playing on the University of Cincinnati football team and 13 years before he helped lead the Kansas City Chiefs to yet another Super Bowl. In 2008, Kelce, a quarterback at the time, was talking with his mother and high school football coach Jeff Rotsky in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

“Listen, they see you as a quarterback.” Rotsky told Kelce. “But you’ve got to have the full understanding that if you’re not the guy there, you’re going to be an unbelievable tight end.