diff --git content/browser/scheduler/browser_task_executor.cc content/browser/scheduler/browser_task_executor.cc
index 7bf17301e3563..f2c102d3fc19b 100644
--- content/browser/scheduler/browser_task_executor.cc
+++ content/browser/scheduler/browser_task_executor.cc
@@ -207,10 +207,9 @@ void BrowserTaskExecutor::ResetForTesting() {
 
 // static
 void BrowserTaskExecutor::Shutdown() {
-  if (!g_browser_task_executor)
+  if (!g_browser_task_executor || !Get()->browser_ui_thread_scheduler_)
     return;
 
-  DCHECK(Get()->browser_ui_thread_scheduler_);
   // We don't delete |g_browser_task_executor| because other threads may
   // PostTask or call BrowserTaskExecutor::GetTaskRunner while we're tearing
   // things down. We don't want to add locks so we just leak instead of dealing