Tim Tebow Warns Parents About Trap Being Set For Male Athletes

Tim Tebow issued a stark warning to parents about a disturbing trend targeting young boys — particularly young male athletes.

The former Denver Broncos quarterback explained the way “sextortionists” preyed on young male athletes by posing as young women and sending them explicit photos. If the boys respond in kind, the perpetrators would then threaten to go public with the images if they did not pay a specified sum — something that they knew could damage the boys’ reputations and even interfere with potential scholarships and leadership opportunities.

Tebow shared video from a recent podcast addressing the situation, captioning the clip, “PARENTS: If your son plays sports, hear me out. Predators are targeting athletes on purpose. Boys with a platform. A reputation. A starting spot. Something to protect — that’s exactly why they’re picked. The scheme: a predator poses as a girl, sends an explicit photo, and once your son sends one back — the trap closes: ‘We got you now.'”

“This moves fast. Faster than most parents realize,” Tebow’s caption continued. “Shame keeps boys silent, and silence is what predators are counting on. This is a growing crime and it’s happening on the same apps your son uses every day. Have this conversation before he needs it: if this ever happens, he comes to you. No shame. No punishment. Just help.”

“We know the enemy is going after boys that play sports,” he said in the video. “Because they assume they have a platform in their school and a reputation, catfishing them and pretending to be a pretty young girl and sending them an explicit photo and the boy’s responding believing that it’s a beautiful young girl.”

Once the catfisher had photos of the boys, they used them to extort money by threatening to publish the photos.

“Unfortunately, dozens and dozens of boys have now committed suicide because of it, and often within the first two hours,” Tebow continued. “Because they don’t know what to do and they feel so ashamed. This is a huge, growing issue — and actually, the start of that trend, it was more about pedophilia and the pleasure side of it. But it’s actually grown to be more of the goal of individuals trying to lure, groom, to gain money and truly to sextort them.”

Tebow has been a vocal advocate for parents to be proactive and discuss the threat with their children before it becomes an issue urging parents to remind especially young boys that they are loved no matter what.

According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), sextortion cases exploded from about 10,000 reports in 2022 to more than 30,000 just two years later in 2024. More than two-thirds of those engaging in the schemes demanded money either in addition to or instead of images.

The FBI and other advocacy groups have confirmed Tebow’s claim that dozens of boys have been driven to suicide by the threat of exposure — reports indicate there have been as many as 36 suicides related to sextortion cases just since 2021.

The threat has become widespread enough that the NCAA and the FBI issued joint warnings to college athletes, advising them that scammers often researched their targets and targeted their scams to reflect what the specific athletes were expected to earn under the new NIL rules allowing them to profit individually.

“We hope to break down barrier so law enforcement can help prevent further abuse and connect college athletes who may be targeted with the right support,” said NCAA Vice President for Enforcement, Jon Duncan. “If we play even a small role in preventing these crimes or getting justice or appropriate support for the people impacted by them, we will do everything we can to help.”

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