After C.J. Stroud helped the Houston Texans to a dominant playoff win, he gave “all glory to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ.”
When the official “Sunday Night Football” account on X, formerly Twitter, posted the interview, it edited out the mention of Jesus.
Social media users were quick to rip NBC for the edit.
A fellow Christian, former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb, took his own shots at the network while defending Stroud.
McNabb said on his OutKick podcast, “The Five Spot” – “It’s very lame.”
He added, “Players always express that as well, and to have that cut out is truly, it’s disrespectful. There are a lot of people out there who are Christians and believe in Jesus, and those who don’t believe in Jesus, still, they don’t feel like that’s disrespectful to them.”
McNabb noted that players want to express themselves freely to better connect with fans.
And he said C.J. Stroud is doing that, “That’s why you hear a lot of athletes say, ‘I can use my platform to reach out to millions of people.’”
“For NBC to do this … they really have to go back … and evaluate themselves. They have to get this thing corrected because that’s definitely not the direction it needs to be going in at this point.”
Stroud has previously explained he keeps his faith first because that’s what keeps him grounded.