Travis Kelce details his Draft Combine interview with the Cowboys

[visionary]

Sure, but if they'd taken him, half the people here would have freaked out about Jerry trying to outsmart everyone else by taking a high risk guy.

His attitude seemed to be (from what he just said) congruent with their concerns.

I have absolutely no doubt that he would not have become this Travis Kelce if he had come here . None

 

[vlad]

If only Randy or Bossman were around to coach him in interviews.

 

[Ranching]

See if he would've said "I'm still that person and I will screw up constantly. I'm immature." he would've been drafted in the 2md round by us.

Us? I don't think the Texans would have drafted him....although, Stroud would probably like to have him.

 

[kskboys]

We got the right guy. Fred was a monster. It's a damn shame his career was cut short. The odds are just ridiculous he'd end up with GBS.

Wrong pick. Escobar in the 2nd, Kelce in the 3rd.

 

[DandyDon52]

For context, this was the Gavin Escobar pick

wow so they picked escobar over kelsey !!!!!!!!
they really know how to read people dont they? lol

 

[Risen Star]

We took Gavin Escobar instead.

Cowboys!

 

[Cowboys93]

Doesn’t matter who the TE was because they weren’t looking to give 82 any company in the starting lineup

 

[Risen Star]

Doesn’t matter who the TE was because they weren’t looking to give 82 any company in the starting lineup

Huh? They were looking to run more two TE sets which is why they drafted a TE in the 2nd round that year. 16 picks before the Chiefs took Kelce.

It matters.

 

[Motorola]

I guess we now know why Kelce isn't a Cowboy.

A colorful tidbit that no doubt Kelce will include in interviews about his career once he is finished playing.

 

[MapleLeaf]

This is tough because we already had Jason Witten. The Cowboys were just drafting on a singular player, but building a TE unit.

Clearly we missed on him, but they were probably thinking about "fit". Would Witten have pissed off Kelce with his snap hogging ways?

We can hand wring all we want, but our HOF TE was not one to share the TE room easily.

Also Reid liked the Kelce family, and he knew the brother and the parents. We didn't have that type of emotional intel.

 

[Big_D]

It’s the draft and these things happen. Just funny that this team is on the wrong side of the equation. Not really a surprise.

 

[fivetwos]

This was during the height of the “right kind of guy” era, and the “process” necessary to make that happen.

What a load of crap, and Jerry bought it hard…..and took us along for the ride.

 

[maryquality]

Us? I don't think the Texans would have drafted him....although, Stroud would probably like to have him.

LOL. But Stroud has Schultz, who had a good season.

 

[Aven8]

We wouldn’t have played him anyways…..remember Witt wouldn’t come off the field….

 

[jterrell]

Travis Kelce's brother was already starting for the Eagles by this point.

There isn't much to see here.
Travis and Jason both seem like cool enough dudes but they both hated the Cowboys 5 minutes after Jason had his first start for the Eagles in 2011.

 

[diamonddelts]

Best GM in the league.

 

[blueblood70]

Right there's too many stories going around about this already that we chose Escobar over Kelsey and that's not true we chose Travis Frederick and then by the time we picked again Travis Kelsey was gone that's the real story but again people like the bang all over the Jones family and the drafts and bring up all the narratives and every single story the same people reply with the same garbage!!??!!

 

[maryquality]

Travis Kelce's brother was already starting for the Eagles by this point.

There isn't much to see here.
Travis and Jason both seem like cool enough dudes but they both hated the Cowboys 5 minutes after Jason had his first start for the Eagles in 2011.

Good point.

 

[CATCH17]

He would’ve just set behind Witten and never been heard of.

 

[jterrell]

Right there's too many stories going around about this already that we chose Escobar over Kelsey and that's not true we chose Travis Frederick and then by the time we picked again Travis Kelsey was gone that's the real story but again people like the bang all over the Jones family and the drafts and bring up all the narratives and every single story the same people reply with the same garbage!!??!!

Thats not accurate unfortunately.
Travis went top pick of Round 3 about 20 spots AFTER we took Escobar.

But in Dallas Escobar was battling not a TE as Witt was sacrosanct but Cole Beasley for snaps.
Dak loved Cole's route-running and wanted him on the field so Escobar seldom played. .