Here’s How Travis Kelce Included Taylor Swift in His Appearance at the NFL Honors Afterparty

Taylor Swift wasn’t in attendance at the 2026 NFL Honors alongside Travis Kelce, but don’t you sweat it, baby: It’s all right, because the tight end found a way to include his famous fiancée in the night nevertheless.

After the award ceremony on Thursday (Feb. 5) — where Kelce was one of 32 nominees up for the Walter Payton Man of the Year honor — the New Heights podcaster attended an afterparty hosted by his Tight End University organization. Loud Luxury DJ’d the event, and at one point, Kelce joined them behind the booth — and naturally, he had to crank up one of his partner’s hits while he was there.

In video captured from the event, the football player smiles, sings and dances to a dance remix of Swift’s Billboard Hot 100-topping hit “The Fate of Ophelia,” at one point doing his own turntable scratch to the beat. Loud Luxury also posted a video on Instagram Stories of Kelce joining the duo behind the table and catching a groove to a different song.

The party took place at Public Works in San Francisco just after the NFL Honors ceremony at the city’s Palace of Fine Arts. One player from each team in the league was nominated for the Man of the Year prize, which ultimately went to Bobby Wagner of the Washington Commanders.

In a TikTok video posted by the Chiefs Thursday night, Kelce congratulates Wagner backstage.

As the Grotesquerie star was celebrating with his NFL colleagues, Swift was gearing up for the release of her “Opalite” music video on Spotify and Apple Music. Following “The Fate of Ophelia,” it marks the second visual the 14-time Grammy winner has dropped for her Billboard 200 No. 1 The Life of a Showgirl album, and stars Swift alongside Domhnall Gleeson, Graham Norton, Greta Lee and Lewis Capaldi — all of whom were also guests during the pop star’s appearance on the October episode of The Graham Norton Show.

“I remember thinking I got ridiculously lucky with the group I was paired with,” Swift wrote of the concept on Instagram Friday (Feb. 6) after the “Opalite” video dropped. “All people whose work I’ve admired from afar. When we were all talking during the broadcast, Domhnall made a light-hearted joke about wanting to be in one of my music videos. He’s Irish! He was joking! Except that in that moment during the interview, I was instantly struck with an idea. And so a week later he received an email script I’d written for the Opalite video, where he was playing the starring role.”