Jason Kelce is living his best life following his retirement from the NFL. The former Philadelphia Eagles pro announced he was hanging up his cleats in March 2024, after 13 seasons under center. In a new interview with GQ , Jason opened up about his his life has changed since retiring and how his body has been transforming after nearly 20 years at his competitive gameday weight.
"I weighed 295 for the majority of my NFL career, and I look forward to losing some of those pounds," he shares. "I don't want to get too small. I think a lot of guys, especially offensive linemen, they lose too much weight, and then they look like bobbleheads because their neck gets so small, but their head stays the same size.
" "So for me, I feel like for some reason, 250 to 260 feels like I'll be still big and be happy with the way I look without having a six-pack. But I’ll still be able to have that stature a little bit. Right now, I'm about 277.
I'm almost 20 pounds down right now," he continues. "My back already feels better. My knees already feel better.
So another 20 pounds hopefully will make that much more adept at playing with my children." Jason and his wife, Kylie, share three daughters -- Wyatt, 4, Elliotte, 3, and Bennett, 15 months -- and he cited family life as something that "increasingly brings me more fulfillment off the field than it does on" in his tearful retirement speech . "Everybody exits the league with some type of impediment.
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