Patrick Mahomes may not agree with views his teammate Harrison Butker shared in a controversial commencement speech , but he still thinks the NFL kicker is "a great person." The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback weighed in on Butker's headline-making speech while speaking to reporters at the Chiefs' training complex in Kansas City on May 22. “I know Harrison.
I’ve known him for seven years and I judge him by the character that he shows every single day and that’s a good person,” Mahomes told reporters . “That’s someone who cares about the people around him, cares about his family and wants to make a good impact in society.” Mahomes was careful to distance himself from the opinions his teammate shared during his speech, which took place May 11 at Benedictine College, a small Catholic college in Kansas.
Butker, who is Catholic himself, used his time at the podium to speak out against birth control, IVF and LGBTQ Pride month while also encouraging young women in the audience to be homemakers, among other topics. “When you’re in the locker room, there’s a lot of people from a lot of different areas of life,” Mahomes said. “They have a lot of different views on everything, and we're not always going to agree.
And there’s certain things that he said I don’t necessarily agree with but I understand the person that he is and he’s trying to do whatever he can to lead people in the right direction.” “And that might not be the same values as I have,” he a.