Much has been made about Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James potentially taking his talents to the world of football. For his part, former Super Bowl champ Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs has weighed in on the debate on whether or not LeBron could actually play in the NFL.

Kelce is one of the top tight ends in the league, and there is no doubt in his mind that the Lakers star would make an easy transition into the NFL:

“1,000 percent man,” Kelce said in a recent appearance on JJ Redick's The Old Man & The Three podcast, via Peter Deway of Lakers Daily. “His athleticism just translates so well onto the football field. Not a lot of — the one thing that I’ve experienced being in the tight end room in Kansas City is we’ve actually had three, four guys come into the building as basketball — from just playing like straight college basketball and trying to make the transition into the tight end room cause the skill sets match up so well.”

Let's not forget, however, that LeBron is going to be 37 this year. Could he actually dominate in the NFL as much as he has been in the NBA for the past two decades? Well, Travis Kelce seems to think so.

Kelce went on to reveal the most significant advantage the Lakers superstar currently has:

“The biggest thing that I’ve seen is just guys in basketball are always on their toes, even when they’re sprinting, they’re on their toes, they’re not really taking big strides. And that’s one thing that I’ve seen out of LeBron. His strides are enormous when he’s running. And he knows how to play with acceleration, deceleration and things like that to kind of have his own tempo throughout the game.

“I think all of that stuff would translate perfectly onto the field. He’d probably just be the LeBron James of the NFL instead of the LeBron James of the NBA.”

Well said, Mr. Kelce. The Chiefs TE is an authority in this matter too, so we're obliged to believe what he's saying here.

As a basketball fan, however, I would much prefer that LeBron remains in the NBA with the Lakers. His legacy in the sport of basketball is still being written and it just feels like he's about to make history yet again.