Less than 24 hours after screenshots referencing “sports gambling” in his Venmo transaction history surfaced, Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer denied any wrongdoing.

In a statement he release on X Tuesday afternoon, Mateer confirmed that the Venmo transactions did in fact come from his account, but were merely a joke rather than a trail of any involvement in sports gambling.

“The allegations that I once participated in sports gambling are false,” his statement read. “My previous Venmo descriptions did not accurately portray the transactions in question but were instead inside jokes between me and my friends.

“I have never bet on sports. I understand the seriousness of the matter, but recognize that, taken out of context, those Venmo descriptions suggest otherwise. I can assure my teamma

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