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Myles Garrett is not the first to say it, and he surely won’t be the last.
Unless and until a team signs Colin Kaepernick, giving him a second shot at his NFL career, players will continue to question whether the league could do more in the Black Lives Matter move.
“I feel like they should have a bigger voice,” Garrett said Thursday, through Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com. “They have a lot of access to resources. They should be able to speak. I think Kap deserves an apology. I know it is one thing to back us up and support our efforts, but they should be by our side in what we are doing, as there are many big and small players in their stardom trying to do things for their home cities, where they play and just for the areas they know have been affected. I feel like they should be right next to us trying to steer the load. ”
Kaepernick has not played since 2016, separating from the 49ers in the 2017 offseason. The NFL has rejected him for being the first player to protest against social injustice and police brutality during the national anthem.
Kaepernick has received only one visit to the Seahawks in 2017.
But George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on May 25, and the protests that followed, led some to believe that the league’s stance had softened towards Kaepernick and player protests during the national anthem. However, so far, Kaepernick is still waiting.
Garrett is doing his part.
He paid for the funeral of Louisville restorer David McAtee, who was shot dead by the Kentucky National Guard last month when police attempted to disperse protesters. The Browns’ defensive team tried to do the same with the family of David Dorn, a retired police captain who was shot dead by a man looting a St. Louis pawn shop, but Garrett never reached the survivors of Dorn. .
“The job is not done,” said Garrett. “There are still things I’m trying to do here in Cleveland and even at home in the DFW area [Dallas-Fort Worth] to improve the situations of the people with whom I have grown and the people I know have been affected, and even those that I have not met and that I still cannot reach.
“It is just getting better for young women and children, my age and younger, whom I want to see come out of situations that can turn into violence or keep this cycle perpetuated.”
