“I hunt it. I kill it. I skin ’em. Cook ’em. Eat ’em. All that,” the star NFL wide receiver said on the “St. Brown Podcast.”
Carolina Panthers rookie sensation Xavier Legette is going viral after he revealed his hottest food take — that he likes raccoon and even ate one for Thanksgiving.
On the “St. Brown Podcast” released Tuesday, Legette told fellow NFL wide receiver brothers Amon-Ra and Equanimeous St. Brown that he eats raccoon, leaving the two speechless for a moment before they asked Legette to clarify his statement.
In his thick South Carolina accent, Legette spelled it out for the podcast hosts.
“Like a raccoon you see in the trash can,” he said. “I hunt it. I kill it. I skin ’em. Cook ’em. Eat ’em. All that.”
He even confirmed that the last time he ate one was on Thanksgiving.
Asked what raccoon tastes like, Legette said the critter has its own taste.
“Everybody tries to stay stuff tastes like chicken,” he said. “But raccoon got its own taste.”
Legette said that if the podcast hosts went to his hometown, Mullins, South Carolina, they’d all like to eat it, too.
He also told them that in addition to eating raccoon, he eats squirrel and rabbit, which they seemed to find less abnormal.
It isn’t the first time Legette, a 2024 first-round draft pick, has made headlines for his food views.
After the first Panthers training session in Munich, he enjoyed trying some traditional German sausages, but not before he hilariously asked, “Do I have to cook it?”
He seemed to have some qualms about the chicken wings on that side of the pond, however, telling an RTL Sport reporter that he was used to “a different twang of barbecue sauce.”
While he may not lead his team in most favorable eating habits, he does lead it in receiving yards and touchdowns.
Legette and his team will host the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, when, for the first time since 2022, the Panthers are favored to win. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m.