Patrick Mahomes Sparks ‘Nappy’ Backlash After Talking About 'Nappy' Hair During Interview

NFL star Patrick Mahomes has caused strong reactions across social media after describing his hair as "nappy" during a new interview.

via: Bossip

Kansas City’s golden boy has officially said goodbye to the curly mohawk fade Chiefs fans knew and loved. Instead, Mahomes is stepping into the 2025 season with a tighter, cleaner fade and a whole lot less fluff on top.

“I’ve wanted to do it for a while but it was kind of one of those superstitions… I kept winning the Super Bowl, which is a good thing, but I didn’t want to cut the hair while I was doing it. I told everybody during the season that win or lose, if we win three in a row or if we lose, I’m getting a haircut like that’s enough.”

And Patrick is LOVING his new look, even if he did throw a lil’ shade at himself along the way:

“I can’t believe all you guys let me keep that nappy hair for so long. Like, I look way better now with the short hair.”

When Mahomes said “nappy,” that’s when things got real spicy online.

Some folks were in their feelings.

One user tweeted, “Saying ‘nappy’ like that like is bad while being half white ain’t sitting right with me.”

Another added, “Nappy?? Just a lil wash trim and conditioner it wasn’t nappy just dry. 😭”

White mother and a white wife, nothing left to see here. https://t.co/qh6d3BXvCc

— wickedweesh24 (@LGreyOcho) April 25, 2025

"Coming from him with a MAGA (Make America Great Again) wife, it sounds anti-Black," a user wrote.

Someone else shared a similar statement, writing, "His MAGA mom probably called his hair nappy growing up."

"I don't expect less from a white man who voted MAGA," another user wrote.

"His hair was NOT nappy, it was dry asf," someone posted. "I guess no one taught him that he needed to actually have a hair care routine, and those natural curls would've been popping."

Meanwhile, other users told everybody to pipe down, saying, “Man can’t call his OWN hair nappy?!? Yall bugging.”

When @TheNeighborhoodTalk posted the clip on Instagram, their followers had a completely different reaction to the outrage.

"Can y'all go outside [and] touch GRASS," someone wrote. "Lmfao, it's his hair."

"D-mn, this new world is weird AF," another posted.

"Whewwwww the sensitivity. He's literally talking about himself," a third shared.

"Hypersensitive culture needs to be canceled," a fourth follower commented. "Y’all find anything to be outraged about just to throw insults."

Debate aside, Patrick clearly isn’t losing sleep over the hair drama. He’s too busy vibing with his longtime barber, DeJuan Bonds, who revealed to Us Weekly that Mahomes originally tried to chop it ALL off.

“When he asked for a change, he basically was like, ‘Just cut me all off.’ I was like, ‘No, no, no. We’re not just going to cut it all off.’ We’re actually going to collab on this.”

At the end of the day, Mahomes is stepping into his new era looking crisp and unbothered.

Instead of addressing the nappy hair debates any further, Pat turned his attention to bigger fish: the Shedeur Sanders NFL draft mess.

As of today, Sanders still hasn’t been picked up in the 2025 NFL Draft and NFL vets are loud about it.

Mahomes dropped a simple one-word tweet that said it all:

“Crazy.”

UPDATE: Since this report, after falling to round five in the three-day process, the Cleveland Browns selected 23-year-old Shedeur Sanders with the 144th overall pick.