EA Sports has taken former Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt off of the team’s virtual roster. Hunt was abruptly released by the Chiefs last Friday after a February incident in which a video captured him assaulting a 19-year-old woman in a Cleveland hotel.
TMZ obtained and released video footage of the event after the Chiefs and the NFL apparently were unable to do just that. The fallout of the video, in which Hunt pushed and later kicked a woman while she was on the ground, sent shockwaves around the NFL and caused the Chiefs to release the star running back.
A week later, word has now gotten out that Hunt will disappear from another major part of the NFL as well, as Madden NFL 19 has removed the running back from the game entirely.
According to CNN, EA Sports has said Hunt will be replaced with a generic player with similar statistics after the game’s latest update.
“The updates have fully gone through now so Hunt has been removed from the game and players who were using him for Ultimate Team have their replacement player,” EA Sports spokesperson Brad Hilderbrand told CNN.
As Variety points out, this is far from the first time the game maker has had to remove a player’s digital version from the game after a violent incident. Ray Rice was removed from the Baltimore Ravens after his own domestic violence incident saw him released from the team, and Madden 25 removed Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez from the game after his arrest for murder, of which he was later convicted.
