diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/span_finder.py b/spacy/pipeline/span_finder.py
index c8129b9af..ccaa3a3a3 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/span_finder.py
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/span_finder.py
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ class SpanFinder(TrainablePipe):
         threshold: float = 0.5,
         max_length: Optional[int] = None,
         min_length: Optional[int] = None,
-        # XXX I think this is weird and should be just None like in
         scorer: Optional[Callable] = span_finder_score,
         spans_key: str = DEFAULT_SPANS_KEY,
     ) -> None: