NEW ORLEANS — Ryan Reynolds has been with the Kansas City Chiefs nine seasons — not the actor, a different superstar — the head strength and conditioning coach.

“I’ve been lucky and very blessed to be a part of this organization,” says Reynolds during a news conference Wednesday morning. The Arizona State University grad has three Lombardi trophies on his shelf at home. He’s hoping to add a fourth on Sunday if the Chiefs clinch the win against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Reynolds works with the players in the practice facilities and weightlifting room, getting them bulked up and ready for game day.

“The players will train early in the week; they have to get in x amount of lifts,” he says. “We set all the training up and when they come in, we push them when they need to be pushed.”

Following the AFC Championship where the Chiefs defeated the Buffalo Bills, Reynolds says the players used the first week before the Super Bowl to get most of their strength and conditioning training completed.

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“That’s because you don’t know what you’re going to get when you arrive on-site,” he says. “Sometimes you’re at an NFL facility, and sometimes you’re at a college facility. We’re at Tulane now. They have the basics, but they don’t have everything that we have in Kansas City.”

On Sunday, Reynolds will lead the team in a pregame warm-up and then hold his breath, hoping the hard work leads to a victory, while making sure everyone stays behind the sideline.

“The players have put in all the work, and the coaches have everything dialed in,” he says. “We’ll just go out there and put everything down on the line, give it our all and hopefully come back with a victory.”

The most rewarding part of the job, Reynolds tells USA TODAY, is when the offense is on a third or fourth down with one or two yards to go and they are physically able to out-push the defense and nab a first down.

“ Just seeing Joe Thuney, Trey Smith or Creed Humphrey win their battles one-on-one, and be able to get that extra yard against another guy, it makes you feel good in the weight room,” Reynolds says. “It makes you feel good about what you’ve done and the work those guys have put in.”

Being with the red-and-gold for almost a decade, Reynolds says he’s appreciated the increased interest and fandom — thanks in part to Taylor Swift dating tight end Travis Kelce and becoming a part of the Chiefs’ family.

“She’s integrated herself into the team, and it’s been good,” he says, admitting he enjoys her homemade Pop-Tarts. “She bakes different things and brings them in for the players and coaches. I think it’s brought some fun and some excitement into it the last couple of years.”

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