{"id":733570,"date":"2026-02-06T13:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/733570\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:55:13","slug":"panthers-tetairoa-mcmillan-apologizes-for-using-racial-slur-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/733570\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers&#8217; Tetairoa McMillan apologizes for using racial slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-panthers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> wide receiver <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4685472\/tetairoa-mcmillan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tetairoa McMillan<\/a>apologized for using a racial slur during a livestream video game event on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">McMillan shouted the words &#8220;n&#8212;a, n&#8212;a, pick&#8221; after making an interception during Streamer Bowl VII, a charity esports tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Yesterday while on live stream, I used a term I should not have,&#8221; McMillan said in a statement posted to his Instagram story Thursday. &#8220;There&#8217;s no excuse for what I said &#8212; I sincerely apologize for speaking thoughtlessly and will do better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A team spokesperson pointed to McMillan&#8217;s apology when asked for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">McMillan, the eighth pick of the 2025 draft, had 70 catches on 122 targets for 1,014 yards and seven touchdowns this past season. He led all NFL rookies in receiving yards and set a Carolina rookie record in that category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Later Thursday, he was named NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers wide receiver Tetairoa McMillanapologized for using a racial slur during a livestream video game event on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[106005,260,12,7,48382,88,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-733570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-106005","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-mcmillan-tetairoa","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116024032163568613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}