After his admission about eating raccoon meat went viral, Carolina Panthers wide receiver Xavier Legette brought some to work to share.
Legette, 23, made the culinary revelation on the December 10 episode of the “St. Brown Podcast,” hosted by Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown. “Like, a raccoon you see in the trash can,” Legette said when asked about his hottest food take. “I hunt it. I kill it. I skin ‘em. Cook ‘em. Eat ‘em. All that.”
On Thursday, December 26, Legette arrived at Panthers practice with some Christmas Day raccoon leftovers in a reusable food container.
“We boil that b—- up,” Legette told Panthers special teams coach Daren Bates while showing off the raccoon in a video posted via X. “Let that meat fall off the bone, you know what I’m talkin’ about?”
A skeptical Bates found a spoon and decided to dig in. “Come on, boy,” Legette told him. “I know that jumped straight on them [taste] buds and started dancing!”
When asked by one of his followers, “So how was it?,” Bates responded, “Wasn’t bad. Didn’t taste like I thought it would.”
It wasn’t just Panthers coaches who got in on the raccoon fun, either.
Panthers beat writer Sheena Quick shared her own video interaction with Legette via X. “Y’all gotta try!” Legette told an assembled group of reporters.
Quick picked up a piece of raccoon meat with her fingers and gave it a go herself. “That’s not bad, ain’t it?,” Legette asked her with a big smile on his face.
“It ain’t bad, it ain’t bad,” Quick said.
Quick doubled down via X, writing, “UPDATE: I tried the coon….and it wasn’t bad! Spicy and well-seasoned.”
While passing around the meat, Legette was asked how he can consider himself “a picky eater” when he loves to chow down on raccoon.
