{"id":30062,"date":"2025-07-28T19:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30062\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T19:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:10:07","slug":"nfl-insider-refutes-schefters-report-on-incident-with-christian-wilkins-raiders-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30062\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL insider refutes Schefter’s report on incident with Christian Wilkins, Raiders teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"

An NFL insider has refuted ESPN’s Adam Schefter’s report<\/a> on an incident involving former Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> defensive tackle Christian Wilkins and a teammate.<\/p>\n

When Wilkins was released on July 24, NFL insider Josina Anderson<\/a> reported that an incident involving a teammate also contributed to the Raiders’ decision to release the veteran defender. Initially, the team’s primary reason for releasing Wilkins was a disagreement on how to handle his lingering foot injury.<\/a><\/p>\n

On Monday, Schefter revealed that Wilkins kissed a teammate on the head, and the anonymous teammate didn’t appreciate that.<\/p>\n

“When you speak to people there inside the locker room, they say that Christian playfully went to kiss a teammate on top of his head,” Schefter said on the Pat McAfee Show on Monday.<\/p>\n

“And those same people said that player took offense to it,” Schefter added.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Schefter’s report, NBC Sports’ Mike Florio stated that Schefter’s story is incorrect.<\/p>\n

“That is definitely NOT the story that has been making the rounds,” Florio wrote on X via the Pro Football Talk account.<\/a><\/p>\n

Florio refuted Schefter’s reporting, but didn’t add a story of his own. We’ll see if this situation reaches a resolution.<\/p>\n

MORE LAS VEGAS RAIDERS NEWS<\/p>\n

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Adam Schefter sheds light on mystery incident involving Christian Wilkins, Raiders teammate<\/a><\/p>\n

Raiders’ position battle gets major update after first week of training camp<\/a><\/p>\n

Raiders’ Ashton Jeanty receives high praise from former All-Pro running back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NFL insider has refuted ESPN’s Adam Schefter’s report on an incident involving former Las Vegas Raiders defensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-30062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}