I don’t have Eric Reid’s phone number. But if I get it after the season begins, I envision hearing this message: “Hi, this is Eric and I can’t come to the phone because I’m being drug tested.”
Reid played 13 games for the Carolina Panthers last season, and says he was drug tested seven times. So at least one Panther led the league in something (drug-test percentage).
Reid, a former safety for the San Francisco 49ers, was at the forefront of the take-a-knee movement. He began right after, and knelt right next to the instigator, San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick.