Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce didn’t threaten to quit over Harrison Butker’s remarks

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce didn’t threaten to quit over teammate Harrison Butker’s recent controversial college commencement speech, but fake news stories reporting as much are being taken out of context online.

“Breaking news,” a May 19 Facebook post said. “Travis Kelce takes a stand, ‘I will resign if Harrison Butker is on the team next season.’”

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We found no credible news stories or other sources to corroborate this claim, although wedid find several similar social media and blog posts that were clearly labeled as satire.

Among them: that Kelce “vows to quit Chiefs immediately if team doesn’t fire Harrison Butker.”