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Jason Kelce has candidly shared his ideas about making a transition to ESPN’s NFL broadcasting group for the 2024 season.

Having hung up his boots after the Eagles’ 2023 season and boasting a Super Bowl triumph from 2017, Kelce switched to screens swiftly, displaying his natural media affinity on the ‘New Heights’ podcast which he runs together with his brother, Travis Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs star.

Known for his exuberant persona, his fast success got here as no great shock, although the timing was ironic—the identical season his outdated facet, the Eagles, eclipsed Travis’s Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX.

Speaking to Charles Barkley on ‘The Steam Room’ podcast, Kelce described his new gig at ESPN in an unexpectedly blunt method: “Stealing money is a great way to describe it.

“It’s enjoyable. It’s a lot of enjoyable. I receives a commission to only discuss one thing I like and to do it with a lot of like-minded people. I imply, it is loopy once you actually give it some thought.

“I spent 13 years doing plays like the tush push and beating the s**t out of my body, and, I mean, even that I thought I was getting overpaid to do.

“I used to be getting overpaid to play a recreation that I did voluntarily as a baby. I obtained to try this for 13 years in an unbelievable metropolis. Now I receives a commission more money to only discuss it, which is insane to me.”

Kelce is raking in a significant sum for his insights. As reported by 247Sports, he’s inked a lucrative three-year, $24 million contract with ESPN and continues to churn out weekly podcast episodes with his brother.

Whether Travis Kelce will take a similar path post-NFL career remains to be seen. The iconic tight end and potential future NFL Hall of Famer is contemplating hanging up his cleats this offseason after Kansas City’s Super Bowl loss to Philadelphia.

His elder sibling is playing a role in guiding the Chiefs star’s decision-making process. “We’re related people, however we even have alternative ways of excited about issues,” JasonKelce remarked.

“Sometimes I can method overanalyze conditions, and my brother has this manner of being like, ‘Hey man, you need to play or you do not need to play.’

“He’ll say something like that where it’s just like don’t worry about all these minor things. And nine times out of ten, he’s right about all of it.”

“I’m way over-analysing his decision for him. I’m like, ‘Alright well if you do this, you can do that, and if you do that you can do this.’ I think Trav – he probably already knows in his heart what he wants to do. That’s the reality of it.”

This article initially appeared on the US Mirror