Closing in on his 15th season in the NFL, former Georgia football player Benjamin Watson has been one of the league’s most outspoken athletes over the years. That was again the case Thursday, when the Super Bowl-champion tight end shared his thoughts on prison reform.
Watson and fellow NFL players Doug Baldwin, Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins co-wrote a New York Times opinion piece titled, “President Trump, Here’s Whom You Should Pardon.” In the article, they reference Trump telling NFL athletes to give him names of those they felt were “unfairly treated by the justice system.