Ahead of the Kansas City football team’s game against the Los Angeles Chargers in Inglewood, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 29,\u00a0Rashee Rice<\/a>\u00a0enlisted fellow wide receivers JuJu Smith-Schuster and Mecole Hardman Jr. to wear some custom T-shirts during the pregame warm-up.<\/p>\n In photos shared by\u00a0CBS Sports<\/a>, the three can be seen sporting black shirts printed with images of Travis, 34. The front of the shirts said “Travis Kelce,” and the back read “Dreamathon” for the company that makes the custom apparel. Hardman previously wore a similar looking shirt when the Chiefs played the Chargers back in 2022.<\/p>\n CBS Sports’ Tracy Wolfson reported in a post on\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Twitter) that Rice, 24, got the shirts “for all the WRs to honor their leader and a guy who has mentored all of them.”<\/p>\n The wide receivers’ support for Travis comes amid criticism over the tight end’s performance on the field since the 2024-2025 NFL season kicked off on Sept. 5. The negative commentary intensified after he logged only 30 receiving yards in the\u00a0Chiefs’ win last week over the Atlanta Falcons<\/a>.<\/p>\n This isn’t the first time the Chiefs squad has brought out some custom T-shirts to support a teammate. Players\u00a0previously wore Dreamathon shirts<\/a>\u00a0in support of running back\u00a0Isiah Pacheco\u00a0after he was injured earlier this month, per\u00a0NBC Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n This week, Travis addressed the criticism surrounding his slow start to the season during an episode of his\u00a0New Heights<\/em><\/a>\u00a0podcast with brother and Philadelphia Eagles alum\u00a0Jason Kelce<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cPat said it. Coach Reed said it. You know, we’re finding ways to win games, and\u00a0we’re not playing our best football<\/a>,” Travis said. “Everybody can clean it up. I think everyone saw my drop on in the Q4, that cruci<\/p>\n \u201cI think, with how defenses are playing us right now, I’m not really getting a lot of opportunities to make plays down the field, but not using that as an excuse moving forward, still trying to, you know, make sure that I can help the team out in that regard, knowing that I’ve been that weapon for us in the past,” Travis added.<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter\u00a0<\/a>to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n Chiefs quarterback\u00a0Patrick Mahomes<\/a>\u00a0also weighed in on the situation,\u00a0telling media<\/a>\u00a0after the team’s Sept. 22 win against the Falcons: “We\u2019re calling a lot of plays for Travis, and it\u2019s like two or three [defenders] are going to him.”<\/p>\n “That\u2019s the great thing about him is he wants to make an impact on the game but he wants to win at the end of the day,” Mahomes, 29, said of his teammate.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to do my best to keep feeding him the ball whenever he\u2019s there, whenever he\u2019s open. I think the more Rashee [Rice] makes plays, the more we\u2019re able to run the football, the more we can get [Xavier] Worthy involved, I think that\u2019s going to open Travis up more,” Mahomes continued. “People are really emphasizing taking him away and that\u2019s getting other guys open.”<\/p>\n Rice, JuJu Smith-Schuster and Mecole Hardman Jr. sported the custom T-shirts printed with photos of Kelce on Sept. 29 The Chiefs’ wide receivers are showing some love to … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9397,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395\/revisions\/9397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Mecole](\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/cGofeXyjgcmWqFsRZ0LCOwwyCwc=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(999x0:1001x2):format(webp)\/travis-kelce-t-shirt-092924-1-c999721e851748d3a3095199d07b259e.jpg\")
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