Tight End University—the annual summit of NFL players hosted by Travis Kelce, George Kittle, and Greg Olsen—is bigger than it’s ever been this week in Nashville.
But other markets are circling what’s become one of the most popular summer events during the NFL’s offseason, Olsen, a TEU co-founder, tells Front Office Sports.
“We’ve had a lot of cities reach out, whether it’s through ownership groups of NFL franchises or other professional sports teams,” Olsen says. “We’ve had conversations of doing some cool collaborations in different cities around the country. So, we’ve toyed with it.”
Vanderbilt University is hosting TEU for a sixth consecutive year, with the Commodores’ newly renovated FirstBank Stadium welcoming fans for a practice session, marking the first time TEU has welcomed the public.
“Nashville’s been our home from the beginning,” Olsen says. “It’s easy to get everybody to. There’s plenty to do. They’ve been great hosts. Vanderbilt’s been awesome. But we’ve kicked around doing it in Chicago. We’ve kicked around Dallas, Austin, Miami. There’s so many great cities between professional organizations, NFL teams, and collegiately—we’ve had a lot of different conversations.”
Behind the scenes, TEU is produced by Rubicon Talent, the agency that reps Olsen and Kittle. Last year, Rubicon founder Peter Raskin told FOS that TEU “might look at other cities” in the future.
Tuesday night’s Tight Ends and Friends concert at a 4,500-seat venue in Nashville sold out. TEU has nearly a dozen major sponsors that bankroll the event, which covers expenses for all of its attendees and their families.
“We want to make sure we don’t lose track of what the core principle of TEU is, which is the experience of the guys and the families,” Olsen says. “If a city comes up that’s just a no brainer, and it’s something that we feel elevates the event, we’ll definitely consider it. But Nashville has been as good of a partner, as good of a host city as we ever could have imagined.”
TEU runs Tuesday through Thursday this week.
