Akiem Hicks took a shot at a former teammate to make a point.
With the nation reeling in the aftermath of George Floyd’s homicide while in police custody and Drew Brees telling Yahoo Finance on Wednesday he doesn’t want to see players kneeling in the fall, athletes are not holding back.
“All I will say is this. We saw it,” Hicks said. “We watched how it unfolded. And we see that he doesn’t have a job now. It was also the same year the controversy around players kneeling during the national anthem reached a boiling point with President Donald Trump making his “Get that son of a bitch off the field right now” quip during an Alabama rally that September.
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