In a heartfelt essay published by ESPN in the fall of 2019, the NFL free agent came out as a “talented football player, a damn good writer, a loving son, an overbearing brother, a caring friend, a loyal lover, and a bisexual man.”
“Today, I have two goals: returning to the NFL, and living my life openly,” he wrote at the time. “I want to live my dream of playing the game I’ve worked my whole life to play, and being open about the person I’ve always been.”
Since then, he has urged the NFL to become more diverse and inclusive of out, LGBTQ+ players. “I am proud to be an out bisexual Black man, and it’s time the NFL was proud to have me and others like me as an active part of their family,” he wrote in an essay he penned for Out last year after participating in the NFL’s Coming Out Day PSA. “I appeared in this month’s PSA alongside my brothers to make sure that our message is clear. Football is for everyone and since I came out in August of 2019, I have dedicated myself to ensuring that is the case.”
