NFL legend Rob Gronkowski has simple advice for Caitlin Clark: 'Keep shutting up the haters'

NFL fable Rob Gronkowski has precocious praise and immoderate elemental proposal for Caitlin Clark: "Keep shutting up the haters" with her play.

Amid the rampant sermon astir Clark that has dominated the internet, Gronkowski told Fox News Digital successful a caller interrogation that she’s doing a "great job" of handling it all.

"She's doing a large occupation handling herself. She truly is. I'm not successful her shoes. I'm not successful her situation. If I was, though, I would benignant of grip it precise akin to however she's handling it. She truly is doing a large job," Gronkowski told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview.

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Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever dribbles the shot during a crippled against the Seattle Storm connected July 28, 2026, astatine Climate Pledge Arena successful Seattle, Washington. (NBAE via Getty Images)

"I would conscionable accidental 1 portion of advice, support balling due to the fact that if you support balling, you're going to support shutting up the haters."

The Indiana Fever person won their past 4 games, and Clark has been great, averaging conscionable implicit 30 points per crippled during that winning streak. While Clark has been good, truthful person her teammates, arsenic Kelsey Mitchell and Aliyah Boston person some been cardinal contributors.

Gronkowski praised Clark’s teammates for supporting her passim the season.

"What I bash appreciate, what she's going to request to assistance with is her teammates. That's who's going to assistance you up. If you've got your teammates protecting you, that says a batch close there. It truly does. And she does. Her squad does prime her up. They support her arsenic well, and that's huge," Gronkowski told Fox News Digital connected behalf of eBay.

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Caitlin Clark #22 reacts during the WNBA All-Star Game astatine United Center. (Getty Images)

"That says a batch astir your property and astir who you are passim the season, however you practice, however you prepare, is that if your teammates are down you, you cognize that doing the close things."

Gronkowski said Clark volition genuinely beryllium the look of the WNBA erstwhile the league steps successful and does thing astir the hard fouls she has received, successful summation to winning thing significant.

"I deliberation she's going to beryllium the look eventually, similar genuinely wherever the WNBA steps successful and they're like, ‘Okay, similar capable of each this wishwashing that's going connected with her and the punishment that that she's taking retired connected the hoops court. Let's genuinely marque her to look the league. I deliberation I would accidental it erstwhile she keeps balling retired and besides wins thing beauteous significant," Gronkowski said.

The New England Patriots fable said helium isn’t a diehard instrumentality and is much of a casual instrumentality of the WNBA. He talked astir however successful the NFL and NBA, you don’t go the look of the league until you person astir "four oregon 5 years nether their belt."

The New England Patriots big the Kansas City Chiefs successful an AFC divisional playoff astatine Gillette Stadium successful Foxboro, Mass., connected Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. Patriots choky extremity Rob Gronkowski gains yards aft a drawback successful the archetypal half. (Bob Breidenbach/The Providence Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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Gronkowski, a four-time Super Bowl champion, is 1 of the top choky ends of each time. He spent 9 seasons with the Patriots earlier retiring successful 2019. He came retired of status successful 2020 and played with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tom Brady for 2 seasons earlier retiring again.

In 11 seasons, the five-time Pro Bowler caught 621 receptions for 9,286 yards and 92 touchdowns.

Clark and the Fever volition look to support it rolling erstwhile they play the Portland Fire connected Friday astatine 10 p.m. ET.

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