NEW ORLEANS — On Fridays, Travis Kelce wanders.
Before games, as the Kansas City Chiefs go through their practice protocol — 10 plays for the offense against the scout-team defense, and vice-versa — Kelce is a man unto himself, locked into the task at hand and transfixed during what would otherwise be dead periods. When it’s the first-team defense’s turn, while the rest of his offensive teammates watch from the sideline, Kelce roams onto an adjacent field and enters his own realm. He paces and stutter-steps, cutting in and out of imaginary breaks, running through plays in his head while talking to himself.