diff --git content/browser/scheduler/browser_task_executor.cc content/browser/scheduler/browser_task_executor.cc
index d8739b1f3110..987472561468 100644
--- content/browser/scheduler/browser_task_executor.cc
+++ content/browser/scheduler/browser_task_executor.cc
@@ -133,10 +133,11 @@ void BrowserTaskExecutor::PostFeatureListSetup() {
 
 // static
 void BrowserTaskExecutor::Shutdown() {
-  if (!g_browser_task_executor)
+  if (!g_browser_task_executor ||
+      !g_browser_task_executor->browser_ui_thread_scheduler_) {
     return;
+  }
 
-  DCHECK(g_browser_task_executor->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