Travis Kelce thanks Chiefs fans for voting him Walter Payton Man of the Year challenge winner

Kansas City Chiefs TE Travis Kelce has been selected as the winner of the sixth annual Walton Payton Man of the Year Charity Challenge.

Not to be confused with the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award for which Kelce is also nominated, the charity challenge is a fan-vote that awards the winner a $25,000 donation to a charity of their choice. The donation is contributed by Nationwide Insurance and the NFL Foundation. Fans were able to vote over a two-week span using the hashtag #WPMOYChallenge on Twitter.

In the first update of the vote tally released on Dec. 31, Kelce was in third place with just over 45,000 votes, listed behind Chargers’ Isaac Rochell and Broncos’ Justin Simmons. Chiefs fans henceforth made it their mission to get the lead for Kelce. When the vote ended following Jan. 17, Kelce had received over a million votes, and today he took to Twitter to say thank you.

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Kelce plans to use that $25,000 donation to give right back to the community that helped him earn it. Kelce and his foundation, Eighty-Seven & Running, have recently been working with Operation Breakthrough to create a STEM learning space called “Ignition Lab” for underserved teens.

To read more about Kelce’s nomination for the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year Award and his history of charity work in the Kansas City community, go here.

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