Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes takes clear stance on sports betting: 'I just stay away from it'

Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs proceed preparing for a pivotal roadworthy trial against the Denver Broncos. The Chiefs dropped to 5-4 aft a Week 9 nonaccomplishment to the Buffalo Bills and spent past week connected a scheduled bye.

While the Chiefs enjoyed immoderate clip off, sports gambling scandals continued to marque headlines. The hotly debated taxable was raised during Mahomes' media availability connected Wednesday.

Mahomes, a three-time Super Bowl champion, shared his attack to immoderate enactment that’s remotely related to gambling.

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Patrick Mahomes joins ESPN's College GameDay pregame amusement earlier a Big 12 Conference shot game, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025, astatine Jones AT&T Stadium. (Nathan Giese/Avalanche-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

"I mean, they fto america know. I mean, the NFL and NFLPA benignant of archer america each the antithetic rules that that you tin and can't do. I conscionable enactment away, enactment distant from it, conscionable due to the fact that I don't privation to enactment myself successful that position," Mahomes said. "I mean, that's thing that, your beingness is truthful great, wherefore messiness with it?"

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"And so, it does get, I think, much than anything, to me, it gets weird sometimes erstwhile you person fans talking astir it. Just due to the fact that like, you're conscionable trying to spell retired determination and unrecorded your beingness and play the game, and sometimes they get truly attached adjacent much than similar the regular fan, due to the fact that they person wealth connected the line."

Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes (15) throws a walk to moving backmost Jerick McKinnon (1) during the archetypal fractional of the AFC title NFL shot crippled against the Cincinnati Bengals, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, successful Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

"And so, from maine to them, I would conscionable say, don't bash thing that you can't recuperate oregon unrecorded without. And so, it's a brainsick satellite we unrecorded successful these days, seeing each this worldly happen. But I deliberation you conscionable absorption connected the shot and absorption connected the athletics that you emotion and wherefore you're here, and you don’t person to interest astir different stuff."

Mahomes has not been accused of oregon successful immoderate mode associated with improper sports gambling.

Portland Trail Blazers caput manager Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat defender Terry Rozier and erstwhile NBA defender and manager Damon Jones were among those arrested by the FBI arsenic portion of an amerciable gambling and sports betting probe past month. Rozier was subsequently placed connected permission by the league. 

Authorities said the probe had ties to members of the La Cosa Nostra transgression family.

Patrick Mahomes (15) of the Kansas City Chiefs looks connected earlier Super Bowl LV against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers astatine Raymond James Stadium connected Feb. 07, 2021 successful Tampa, Florida. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

In July, Gilbert Arenas was arrested successful transportation with an amerciable gambling ring. The Department of Justice accused the erstwhile hoops prima of operating the strategy from a location helium owned successful Southern California. He pleaded not blameworthy to the charges and was aboriginal released connected $50,000 bond.

In a precocious October memo, the NBA told its 30 teams it had launched a reappraisal into however the league could support the integrity of the game.

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In baseball, Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were indicted connected respective charges related to an cognition that alleged they rigged bets connected MLB games they played in.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos and Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.

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