NFL fans are destroying ESPN’s Adam Schefter for his pair of confusing tweets about the injury status of Kansas City Chiefs superstar wide receiver Rashee Rice.
As one of football’s most prominent and reputed insiders, football fans naturally believe any news that Adam Schefter breaks. The ESPN personality is rarely wrong on stories (like all insiders, there are some exceptions) , but Monday’s report on Rice certainly wasn’t his finest moment.
Rice suffered a knee injury in the first quarter of the Chiefs’ Week 4 road game against the Los Angeles Chargers. The severity of his injury has yet to be determined, and Schefter’s attempt to provide more clarity didn’t exactly go as planned.
First, Adam Schefter reported doctors are optimistic that Rice’s knee injury isn’t “as significant as first believed” and that the recovery timeline may be “much shorter” than expected.
After consulting today with doctors, there’s “a lot of optimism” that standout WR Rashee Rice didn’t suffer a knee injury as significant as first believed, per source. Rice will be put under anesthesia Tuesday to determine the extent of his injury, but the belief now is it could… pic.twitter.com/Vz8oZiRVaJ
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 7, 2024
Six minutes later, however, Schefter then reported that Rice is “unlikely” to play again this season and that Kansas City will have more information on Tuesday.
It’s unlikely that Chiefs WR Rashee Rice will play again this season, but doctors will not know for sure until they perform surgery Tuesday morning, per source. https://t.co/wjb1RiEdfd
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 7, 2024
Predictably, fans didn’t hesitate to rip on Adam Schefter for his confusing posts about Rice’s injury situation:
Let’s just say that Adam Schefter would have been better off posting the news the way NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport did:
Amid all this confusion on social media, the bottom line is that the Chiefs will presumably have to continue their three-peat bid without their No. 1 receiver. Rice’s 2024 season, unfortunately, ends after four games.
The Chiefs (4-0) host the New Orleans Saints on “Monday Night Football” at Arrowhead Stadium.
Not Adam Schefter’s Finest Moment
Now that we have clarity on Rice’s injury status, you can look back at Schefter’s initial post and see what he was trying to say. Still, you can’t blame the fans who read that first message and got excited about the possibility of Rice returning, only to have the hopes dashed by Schefter himself minutes late
