Former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce had quite the successful 13-year NFL career, racking up seven Pro Bowls, six All-Pro selections and a Super Bowl championship.
He’s also been successful in the podcasting world as well, as he and his brother Travis signed a lucrative $100 million deal with Amazon’s Wondery to product their “New Heights” podcast.
If that weren’t enough, Kelce also signed a multi-year contract with ESPN that pays him $1.8 million per year to serve as an analyst for the network, primarily appearing on “Monday Night Countdown.”
And now, it seems like Kelce could be making potential plans for another career shift sometime down the line. During a recent interview with The Golfer’s Journal, the 37-year-old Kelce admitted that he could see himself getting into coaching sometime down the line.
“I would love to coach,” Kelce said. “The problem with coaching is the time — huge time commitment. If you want to be great at coaching, you can only coach and it takes away, especially if you want to do it at the NFL level. Potentially could do that in future at the high-school level. Definitely a different time commitment there. I want nothing to do with college.
“… NFL you get the selfish gratification of competing at the highest level and working with the best athletes on the planet in that sport. High school you get the gratification of helping from young men. It’s a much different objective. It’s hard to that and have enough time with family and media and all these other things. For me, it’s not right, right now. Maybe in the future, I think it could happen.”
Given his success as a player, Kelce likely has an easier path to coaching in the NFL than most, especially if he were to coach a position group such as the offensive line. In fact, if Kelce does decide to transition into being back on the sidelines, there presumably would be a spot open for him on the Eagles staff.
Once he announced his retirement earlier this year, Eagles general manager Howie Roseman admitted he tried to persuade Kelce to join Philly’s coaching staff, but he declined to pursue opportunities in sports media.
Roseman even hinted that Kelce did a little scouting and evaluating for Philadelphia as well, hand-picking Cam Jurgens to be his replacement.
“I think Jason would be great at anything in football,” Roseman said on ”Up & Adams” back in July. “He'd be a heck of an evaluator. I've tried to recruit him to come work for me, too, because he can evaluate players.”
