Taylor Swift continues to earn accolades and watch her career expand, and her husband-to-be just decided to continue his own storied career.
Travis Kelce has decided to return to the Kansas City Chiefs for another season, avenging the team’s dismal campaign in 2025. As he prepares for another season on the field, Swift is watching her latest project continue to rack up honors.
Taylor Swift’s Project Continues to Shine
While Swift has set a slew of records for sales and streaming from her latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” the latest honor came for someone else closely related to the work. As Deadline reported, the music video for “The Fate of Ophelia” earned one of the top honors at the American Society of Cinematographers awards this weekend.
“Four-time Oscar nominee and seven-time ASC Award nominee Rodrigo Prieto won the music video category for shooting Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia,’ ” the report noted.
Swift has another big honor of her own coming later in the year. As NBC News reported, she will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame later this year, becoming one of the youngest ever to earn that honor.
“To be eligible for the hall, a songwriter’s first commercially released composition has to be at least 20 years old,” the report noted. “Swift’s ‘Tim McGraw’ first hit radio stations in June 2006. Swift becomes the second-youngest living inductee to the hall of fame. Stevie Wonder remains the youngest, having been inducted at age 32 in 1983, Billboard reported.”
Travis Kelce Continues His Own Career
Swift and Kelce — who are set to get married later this year — will both remain busy with their careers for at least the next year. NFL insider Ian Rapoport reported this week that Kelce has come to a decision on retirement, opting to come back to the Chiefs for another season.
“Back for more: #Chiefs future Hall of Fame TE Travis Kelce is expected to return to Kansas City for a 14th season, a message that’s been delivered to teams who will want him,” Rapoport reported in a post on X. “At 36, Kelce’s play was at its usual level, landing him in the Pro Bowl. He’s loyal to KC & will stay.”
The Chiefs had been giving Kelce time and space to make his decision, but general manager Brett Veach made it clear at the NFL Combine that the team was hoping to get him back on the field for 2026.
“Travis is the best,” Veach said, via ESPN. “He’s an icon, and hopefully he comes back. We’ll just kind of let that process play out. It’s not your typical 27-year-old [and] first time at free agency. Travis has done everything and has accomplished everything.”
Veach acknowledged that Kelce had a lot going on in his personal life, so the team wasn’t going to press him into making a decision.
“He’s about to get married,” Veach said. “He’s got a lot going on, so I don’t think there’s an element of us not trying to get something done — you need to have some sort of deadline [or] timeline — but at the same time he’s Travis Kelce.”
Taylor Swift Gets Good Career News After Travis Kelce Decision