A Kansas City sports radio host is unhappy with OutKick’s coverage of the Chiefs. He says, however, that he does not disagree with anything we have written or reported. Instead, he claims he doesn’t like that we’re allowed to talk about his team while having different views than his.
On Tuesday, Carrington Harrison criticized members of the Kansas City sports media for “spending part of their day arguing with Bobby Burack on any topic.” In doing so, he spent part of his day talking about me on social media – and discussing OutKick and me on his radio show.
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“I wouldn’t get my (Chiefs) stories from OutKick,” he said. “They are Clay Travis’s subordinates.”
He then said he didn’t “respect OutKick.”
Harrison then asked to appear on the conservative radio show Mundo in the Morning on KCMO in Kansas City. He claimed his problem with OutKick stems from an article we published last week about Chiefs left tackle Josh Simmons, who has yet to play this season.
In our story, we mentioned that ESPN reported several “red flags” regarding Simmons’ character and maturity ahead of the 2024 draft. We also cited a Sports Illustrated report that Simmons left the team without warning the day before a game last season, failed to respond and let the team not know where he was for a period of time. Simmons then missed a month of games for what the team described as “personal” reasons.
This season, Simmons has missed all four games for the Chiefs. The team says he is dealing with a back injury, an injury that team sources told multiple reporters was not an issue in August. ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler has since called the injury “mysterious.” Most other national insiders won’t discuss the injury, even during injury review segments in which they cover minor ailments involving players of far less consequence.
We highlighted how unusual the situation is, that the team’s lack of transparency is generating theories online, and that the secrecy suggests something more complicated than a simple back injury.
So what exactly does a radio host from the official Kansas City Chiefs station take issue with our analysis?
Well, nothing.
“I don’t fundamentally disagree with Bobby Burack,” Harrison told a perplexed Pete Mundo on Wednesday. “I would define someone who is a hater, who is someone who is incapable of giving credit where credit should be due.”
Um, okay.
Offensive tackle Josh Simmons #71 of the Kansas City Chiefs stands on the team sideline during the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Rams at Arrowhead Stadium on August 15, 2026, in Kansas City, Missouri. (Getty Images)
“The truth doesn’t matter who tells the truth. It remains the truth no matter who says it,” he added.
So why these tweets, these radio segments and these insults?
According to Harrison, he doesn’t like that OutKick tells the truth. What does this mean? Didn’t he just say the opposite? We’ll let him explain.
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“I don’t respect Bobby Burack’s reporting,” he said. “I don’t respect the platform he’s created for himself. I believe he’s someone who has cultivated an audience and a brand around bugs and bots and trolls and racists. He’s not someone I’m very interested in getting on the internet and having to fight and engage with.”
To recap, Carrington Harrison says he agrees with my reporting but doesn’t respect it. He says he doesn’t want to engage in discussions with me, even though he has initiated discussions with me on X, his radio show and another radio show.
At this point, you have to wonder if there’s something seriously wrong with this guy. It certainly doesn’t seem to work with the highest IQ.
Baffled by Harrison’s contradictions, Mundo questioned his premises.
“But you say he’s absolutely on to something with this Josh Simmons thing, but then you say he’s not credible in this situation,” Mundo said.
“I’ve seen, I mean, I never said he wasn’t credible in that situation. I’ve seen his reporting work in other situations. He’s just not someone I would align with,” Harrison responded.
Eh?
Who asked him to align himself with someone? He began by saying that OutKick is not credible when it comes to the Chiefs, a point he now claims was not his intention.
Kansas City Chiefs offensive tackle Kingsley Suamataia (76) and offensive tackle Josh Simmons (71) at the line of scrimmage against the Baltimore Ravens during the game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on September 29, 2025. (Denny Medley/Imagn Images)
He then reiterated exactly what we wrote last week.
“So in this situation, is there something bigger going on with Josh Simmons? Yes, I agree with that 100 percent. Yes, I absolutely think there’s something going on.”
Mundo again wondered why Harrison made a point of telling his listeners not to trust OutKick when he now confirmed that he agreed exactly with what we reported on the subject.
“It feels like you don’t really disagree with Bobby. And I only have a minute here. You don’t disagree with Bobby, but you don’t like Bobby and that’s fine.”
“That’s your prerogative. I’m not saying you have to like him or not, but because you don’t like him, you want to kind of twist them here or change them a little bit here in this whole thing. Is that a fair analysis of this situation?”
Harrison did not deny it. Instead, he took more personal photos.
“I mean, I wouldn’t say I want to change him a little bit, but I think Bobby’s problem is that I think Bobby has stood on the shoulder of giants and thinks he’s big now. Bobby Burack has never done anything outside of Clay Travis’ success. So I don’t want him to come here and on your show and act like he’s a top-notch investigator or reporter. That’s definitely not true.”
For the record, I did not claim to be an investigative journalist. My coverage of Josh Simmons is actually pretty harmless. I simply said that the situation didn’t make much sense. I said this because people who cover the Chiefs on a daily basis, like Harrison, have been too afraid to do so at the risk of disrupting the team’s public relations.
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, Harrison’s comments raise a larger issue.
Why would a Kansas City sports station tied to an NFL franchise want to have a host on the air who openly admits that he cannot tolerate the sports opinions of people who disagree with him politically?
Harrison has repeatedly confirmed since Tuesday that he told his listeners to ignore OutKick’s accurate reporting because he believed our readers were racist and because of our association with Clay Travis, one of the nation’s most prominent conservative radio talk show hosts.
Imagine hosting a sports show in another city and saying something similar about a liberal media outlet, while acknowledging that its reporting is accurate.
Harrison sent a message to sports fans in Kansas and Missouri: If you’re not as liberal as he is, you’re not welcome to listen to his show.
Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs reacts in the third quarter against the Indianapolis Colts at Arrowhead Stadium on September 20, 2026, in Kansas City, Missouri. (Getty Images)
Two points on this.
First, based on his numbers, most people don’t listen to his show anyway.
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Second, OutKick asked its station’s program director, Steven Spector, whether Harrison’s views on conservatives and OutKick represented the views of 96.5 The Fan.
Spector did not return our email in time for publication. We will update this story if he does. We’ve also reached out to Harrison to see if he stands by his bizarre comment.
Either way, we at OutKick don’t think you need to vote a certain way to have an opinion on sports. We’re also maintaining our coverage of Josh Simmons.
The starting left tackle for the NFL’s most valuable asset, playing in just eight games over two years, in two different sets of mysterious circumstances, is a story worth covering.
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However, according to a Kansas City radio host, such coverage only makes sense if it comes from someone with the appropriate political leanings.
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