Retired life has been a blessing for Jason Kelce. Make no mistake, he was a happy-go-lucky guy on the field, but his playful personality is even more evident now. But there’s more to that. We are seeing the future Hall of Famer with an analytical lens while he’s at his broadcasting job at ESPN and wondering if there’s more he can offer. And it seems like there might be, and the veteran is not averse to the idea either. But how soon can we see Kelce on the other side of the field? Well, let’s hear it from the man himself…

Jason Kelce wants to give coaching a shot

Being a coach is not easy. You need precision, perceptiveness, and the courage to make calls many might not agree with—cue Dallas Cowboys HC Mike McCarthy (wink, wink!). And while the former Philadelphia Eagles star seems like the kind of person who can make those call accurately and considers putting more than a decade’s worth of knowledge to good use by molding young men for the future, these aren’t just any young men we’re taking about.

These are high school kids who need guidance on how to make it big at a critical juncture in their life, which Kelce further talked about on a rare occasion during his interview on The Golfer’s Journal. The host asked, “You’ve learned from a lot of great people and had a ton of success in football, and are having success in broadcasting, and in a lot of different avenues. Is coaching an avenue you want to explore?”

To this, the 37-year-old revealed, “I would love to coach. 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 the future at the high school level. Definitely a different time commitment there. I want nothing to do with college. College is like, first of all, it’s the highest time commitment,” Kelce stated.

But why not the cut-throat world of college football? In Kelce’s own words: “Not only you’re coaching your guys, but you’re recruiting. It’s just a whole…and then the NIL stuff. It just feels like it’s like in a very weird state right now.”

“I probably would avoid 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 form young men and like it’s a much different objective even though you’re still trying to win football games,” he further stated, before concluding, “But yeah it’s hard to do that [coach] and have enough time with family and media and all these other things. So, for me, it’s not right now. Maybe in the future, I think it could happen. I think, selfishly, I know that I would love to do that. But there’s also a lot of other things that prevent it.”

Needless to say, his media gig with ESPN will also be a deciding factor in taking a coaching job.

Right now though, Jason Kelce seems more focused on breaking records. No, not football records, but…

Jason Kelce is a famous artist now

Talk about switching careers, eh? Kelce teamed up with Stevie Nicks, the singer of an iconic band, Fleetwood Mac, to cover Ron S–smith’s song “Maybe This Christmas,” which released on November 22 this year. Notably, putting out Christmas albums has been a tradition for the former Eagles lineman. He’s already done with Jordan Mailata and Lane Johnson in the past. But this time, he took it to New Heights (get it?).

Kelce and Nicks sing words of compassion “Maybe this Christmas will mean something more / Maybe this year love will appear deeper than ever before,” Kelce sings. That’s when Stevie Nicks chimes in, “And maybe forgiveness will ask us to call / Someone we love, someone we’ve lost / for reasons we can’t quite recall.”

During a conversation with his brother Travis Kelce, the retired player stated bewildered, “The legendary Stevie Nicks came on and did a duet with me, which in itself is, like, pretty crazy to actually be on a track with Stevie Nicks. I mean, absolutely unreal. [She’s] probably the most legendary female singer, especially of her generation … [and so] the fact that I’m singing with her this legend, is pretty unreal.”

The 7x Pro Bowler absolutely loved working with the “Dreams” singer. So, go ahead, take another guess as to why Kelce doesn’t have enough time to take up a coaching gig. Maybe somewhere down the line, he’ll take up this side quest.