Travis Kelce has recently committed his future with the Kansas City Chiefs, signing a three-year contract extension before the next season starts. The tight end has spent his entire career with the franchise, with whom he won three Super Bowl titles.
Though they had a poor 2025 season, Kelce has decided to continue for at least one more season. Recently, a tweet referencing one of his old interviews has gone viral.
Travis Kelce’s old words about league-wide cannabis use resurfaces
A tweet by MLFootball has gone viral, in which it references Kelce’s discussion about cannabis usage in the NFL. In a June 2023 interview with Vanity Fair, he estimated that around 50 to 80 percent of players in the NFL use cannabis. This was not an official number, but rather his own unofficial opinion. He said the reasons were mainly due to the new NFL rules at the time.
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce
Jan 4, 2026; Paradise, Nevada, USA; Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) leaves the field after the game against the Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images
The NFL changed its marijuana policy in 2021 based on the 2020 Collective Bargaining Agreement. Both the NFL and NFL Players Association (NFLPA) agreed to relax the rules around cannabis consumption among players. Testing for THC used to be done around the whole year, but was changed to only being done during a two-week window at the start of training camp in the summer.
First-time positive tests are no longer punished by handing out suspensions, instead shifting towards treatment and fines. Kelce said the new rules allowed everyone to trick the doping tests, “If you just stop in the middle of July, you’re fine. A lot of guys stop a week before and they still pass because everybody’s working out in the heat and sweating their tail off. Nobody’s really getting hit for it anymore.”
Players often use cannabis as a pain management alternative to opioids. Many fans felt that Kelce was being a snitch towards his fellow NFL players and criticized him online.
Fans attack Travis Kelce over revealing league-wide cannabis usage
Many fans slammed Kelce on social media due to his comments revealing other players’ cannabis usage.
One user remarked, “Bro Just Ratted Them Out”.
A second user wrote, “bro self snitching”.
A third user replied, “How the Chiefs roster looking at Travis after he ratted them out:”.
Another added, “Pfizer boy being a rat on his way out no way, would have never expected this lol”.
A fifth commented, “Wo so hes a f***ing snitch now on top of dating a Trans woman”.
A sixth user said, “Dawg a snitch”.
While Travis Kelce is catching a lot of backlash for his old comments, he will have to look forward to the next season.