Clay Travis Blasts Media for Treating Aaron Rodgers Worse Than Henry Ruggs: ‘We Wildly Over-Punish Words’

Aaron Rodgers has been enemy No. 1 for much of the sports media in the last week after he was outed for lying about his vaccination status.

On his national radio show, Clay Travis slammed the mainstream media for its treatment of Rodgers, citing what he believes is an inconsistency with how athletes who commit legitimate crimes are treated publicly.

Earlier this week, Kareem Abdul Jabbar wrote a scathing response to Rodgers’ vaccination status, blasting him as a liar who fueled distrust in professional athletes is role models, a sentiment Travis believes is utterly ridiculous.

“I could give you a thousand…athletes that have done things that have legitimately been crimes that have legitimately devalued the overall brand of their sport, their team, their league,” the Outkick founder argued on his conservative radio show with Buck Sexton.

“Just in the last 10 days, the Las Vegas Raiders had a player driving 156 MPH while twice the blood alcohol level drunk and kill a woman in Las Vegas!” Travis said, referring to Henry Ruggs III, who has been charged with DUI resulting in death.

“We wildly over-punish words and we wildly under-punish, in my experience, actions,” Travis continued. “We got it backwards because of social media…Aaron Rodgers would have been better off to drive drunk than he would to say, ‘Hey, I didn’t want to get the covid vaccine because I don’t think it’s necessary for me.'”

Part of the discrepancy derives from nobody defending Ruggs. The NFL wide receiver was quickly released by the Raiders and everyone acknowledges the story is awful. There are no talking points to argue and no percentage of the population willing to defend his actions.

Rodgers lied and spewed anti-vax narratives, taking a contrarian opinion from 72 percent of adult Americans on an incredibly polarizing topic. But with 28 percent still unvaccinated, it sparks debate as Rodgers gets praised as a hero by some for refusing the jab.

“The sports media is more left wing than the political media, which blows people’s minds,” Travis said. “Which is how – yes – Aaron Rodgers got eviscerated like he did.”

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