Chiefs initially feared the worst about Travis Kelce’s knee injury

The Kansas City Chiefs seem to have avoided disaster with star TE Travis Kelce's hyperextended knee, but it might not all be sunshine and roses moving forward. According to FOX Sports' Jay Glazer, the Chiefs initially feared a repeat of the 2013 NFL season with Kelce. That year, Kelce, suffered a tibial plateau fracture that […]

Charles Goldman — NFL Managing Editor

Sep 10, 2023 1:20 PM EDT

The Kansas City Chiefs seem to have avoided disaster with star TE Travis Kelce's hyperextended knee, but it might not all be sunshine and roses moving forward.

According to FOX Sports' Jay Glazer, the Chiefs initially feared a repeat of the 2013 NFL season with Kelce. That year, Kelce, suffered a tibial plateau fracture that ended his rookie season before it even really began. He was placed on season-ending injured reserve during in October with that microfracture in his knee.

Glazer revealed during the Fox Sports pregame show on Sunday that the Chiefs initially thought they were dealing with the same season-ending knee injury. Thankfully, it ended up being nothing more than a "very deep" bone bruise according to the report.

The #Chiefs were initially concerned that TE Travis Kelce suffered a season-ending tibia plateau fracture during Tuesday's practice, per @JayGlazer. However, it turned out to be just a "very deep" bone bruise, and Kelce has been making progress every day.

The plan is to have him… pic.twitter.com/fKz4BvBChN
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) September 10, 2023

The Chiefs will have Kelce run tomorrow and if there is no additional swelling he could be cleared to play in Week 2 against the Jacksonville Jaguars per Glaer. That might not be the case, though.

Glazer also added in his report that doctors pulled out 45 cubic centimeters of blood from Kelce's knee. According to former NFL doctor David Chao, there is no chance that he will play in Week 2 if that aspect of Glazer's report is true.

"Hopefully it wasn't blood," Chao said. "Hopefully, it was a tinge of blood and fluids. I'm not trying to contradict reports, but you don't have blood in the joint from a bone bruise. To have blood in the joint from a bone bruise/microscopic fracture had to penetrate the articular surface. (That's) a much bigger deal."

While Glazer's report seemed to be a positive one, it sounds like there's a lot more about this injury that we simply don't know at this time. We'll see what occurs when the team returns to practice on Wednesday.