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 earlier 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.