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Wednesday, 22 May 2024 / Published in Uncategorized

Mahomes weighs in on Rice issues, Butker views

  • Courtney Cronin, ESPN Staff WriterMay 22, 2024, 04:02 PM ET

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      Courtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota Vikings before switching to the Chicago Bears in 2022. Courtney is a frequent panelist on Around the Horn and host of Best Week Ever on ESPN Radio. She also co-hosts The Chicago Bears Podcast on ESPN 1000. She previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News as a multimedia sports journalist.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes defended the character of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker and offered words of encouragement for wide receiver Rashee Rice, who has been involved in two separate off-field incidents, during the team’s opening week of OTAs on Wednesday.

Butker became embroiled in controversy for comments he made during a commencement address this month at Benedictine College. During his 20-minute speech, Butker addressed female graduates in the audience about the “most diabolical lies” they have been told and using his wife, Isabelle Butker, as the example, intimated that the graduates should be most excited to take on the “vocation of homemaker.”

Mahomes said he did not “necessarily agree with” several comments made by his teammate of seven years but chose to “judge him by the character that he shows every single day.”

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“… There’s certain things that he said that I don’t necessarily agree with, but I understand the person that he is and he is trying to do whatever he can to lead people in the right direction,” Mahomes said. “And that might not be the same values as I have, but at the same time, I’m going to judge him by the character that he shows every single day. That’s a great person and we’ll continue to move along and try to help build each other up to make ourselves better every single day. But at the end of the day, we’re going to come together as a team and I think that’ll help out as eliminating those distractions outside of the building as well.”

Chiefs coach Andy Reid said he speaks with Butker “all the time” but did not feel the need to address the kicker’s comments because “everybody’s got their own opinions.”

“We’re a microcosm of life,” Reid said. “Everybody is from different areas, different religions, different races. And so, we all get along, we all respect each other’s opinions — and not necessarily do we go by those, but we respect everybody to have a voice. [That’s the] great thing about America. And we’re just, like I said, a microcosm of that, and my wish is that everybody could kind of follow that.”

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell echoed Reid’s sentiments at the league’s spring meetings.

“Listen, we have over 3,000 players. We have executives around the league. They have a diversity of opinions and thoughts just like America does,” Goodell said. “I think that’s something that we treasure and that’s part of, I think, ultimately what makes us as a society better.”

Rice, who has been present for Phase II of OTAs, practiced with the Chiefs on Wednesday.

Mahomes was asked how he and Chiefs players would help the second-year receiver as he faces legal consequences for his involvement in a multiple vehicle car crash in Dallas last month as well as a separate incident in an alleged May 6 assault at a Dallas nightclub.

“I think it’s just trying to do whatever we can to teach him how to learn from his mistakes,” Mahomes said. “I mean obviously that was a big mistake, but you have to learn from it, make sure it doesn’t happen again and try to do whatever you can to be the best person you can be in society, not only for yourself but for the people around you. And I think he is doing that, but right now we’re just going to keep trying to do whatever we can to get him on the right path so that he can be a great football player obviously, but we want to be a great person, too.”


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