Jason Kelce Videos Take Off Online After Retirement Talk

Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce has moved fans with the news of his potential retirement and emotional scenes of him at Monday's game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have gone viral.

According to ESPN, Kelce informed his teammates after losing to the Buccaneers, 32-9, in a wildcard playoff game that he plans to retire, ending his 13-season professional football career.

Declining to speak to reporters after the game, clips and screenshots of Kelce embracing coach Jeff Stoutland, leaving the field with his helmet in hand and looking shaken as he met general manager Howie Roseman have started circulating online.

The touching clips have been accompanied by love and support for the football star as well as many wanting to shift his "pain" to other celebrities who have been talking points online recently.

Kelce has a loyal fanbase, and although he has yet to post anything on social media about retiring, football lovers will still surely hear from the star via his popular podcast New Heights, which he co-hosts with his brother Travis Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs star who is dating Taylor Swift.

Messages commenting on Kelce's "impressive" career littered X, formerly Twitter, with a subsection of celebrity bashing appearing linked to the moment.

Accompanying clips from the game where Kelce looked emotional, one onlooker said: "God please take away Jason Kelce's pain and give it to Noah Schnapp."

When this article was published, the Schnapp post had been viewed 1.2 million times by users on X.

Noah Schnapp has been a talking point over the last few months, with many calling for him to be canceled for sharing his thoughts on the Israel-Hamas war. On October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking another 240 captive. Israel subsequently launched air strikes on Gaza, which is governed by Hamas, before launching a ground offensive into the area.

More than 24,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry, as quoted by Reuters.

Schnapp's initial statement on the Israel-Hamas conflict included the words "You either stand with Israel or you stand with terrorism" and he was then criticized after being seen on social media posing with stickers reading "Zionism is Sexy" and "Hamas is Isis."

The "take away" the pain posts continued to pour in, "Oh dear god, please take away all the pain and misery from Jason Kelce and give it to Aaron Rodgers," another said. This post had clocked up over 816,000 views at the time this article was published.

The trend grew with people wanting "Jason Kelce's pain" to be shifted to "K*nye W*est" (over 459,000 views at publication), "Brett Favre" (over 922,000 views) and "Jake Gyllenhaal" (over 353,000 views).

Scooter Braun was on the receiving end of multiple posts wanting him to absorb Kelce's pain, with stars such as Justin Timberlake and Jo Koy also getting mentions.

Entrepreneur and celebrity manager Braun made headlines last year and has continued to do so after there was an exodus of celebrity clients from his roster. Timberlake has been in the hot seat following his ex Britney Spears' memoir, and Koy's humor came into question after some of his jokes failed to land while hosting the recent Golden Globes.

One obscure social media post wanted to shift his pain to "screenwriters who kill dogs in movies," while another encouraged users on X to scroll all of the posts for a laugh: "If you haven't searched 'God, please take away Jason Kelce's pain and give it to' yet you're missing out."

Eagles fan account @PHLEaglesNation shared a video of Kelce meeting his family after the game with fans asking if he has officially retired and if so why.

Newsweek has contacted the Philadelphia Eagles for comment.