{"id":364450,"date":"2025-12-22T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364450\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:50:07","slug":"nfl-legend-claims-fan-called-steelers-dk-metcalf-a-racial-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364450\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL legend claims fan called Steelers’ DK Metcalf a racial slur"},"content":{"rendered":"

One NFL legend claims to know what really happened during the shocking Week 16 moment<\/a> between Pittsburgh Steelers WR DK Metcalf<\/a> and a Detroit Lions<\/a> fan.<\/p>\n

On Sunday\u2019s episode of the Nightcap podcast, former Bengals All-Pro WR Chad \u201cOchocinco\u201d Johnson claimed that the fan called Metcalf a racial slur and even targeted his mother with a vulgar expletive.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI got word, obviously, I\u2019m not condoning putting your hands on a fan or punching a fan, but he did call [Metcalf] a racial slur,\u201d Johnson told his co-host Shannon Sharpe. \u201cHe called him the N-word, and he did call his mom a c—. I think with those words being exchanged and the fan saying that, that\u2019s where the action occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n

Courtesy of a report from the Detroit Free Press, the fan involved in the altercation claimed he called Metcalf by his full name \u2014 DeKaylin Zecharius Metcalf \u2014 which prompted the incident.<\/p>\n

We at Steelers Wire will provide more information as the NFL investigates the situation involving Metcalf getting physical with the fan, including any potential updates on a punishment that could come his way.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Steelers Wire: Steelers’ DK Metcalf was called a racial slur, claims Chad Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One NFL legend claims to know what really happened during the shocking Week 16 moment between Pittsburgh Steelers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,5360,198195,3055,625,593,1241,198196,6497,85],"class_list":["post-364450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bengals","tag-chad-ochocinco-johnson","tag-detroit-lions","tag-dk-metcalf","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-racial-slur","tag-shannon-sharpe","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}