Carter Coughlin at Giants training camp on Aug. 10, 2020. Credit: Matthew Swensen/Matthew Swensen
Carter Coughlin thought he’d be spending this spring and summer preparing for his rookie season in the NFL. Instead, he wound up in the middle of a movement.
The seventh-round pick of the Giants was in Minneapolis when the murder of George Floyd sparked months of protest, activism and frustration. At the time he was living with three close friends, all of them Black, and Coughlin asked them one simple question:
“I just said, ‘Hey, how can I support you guys during this?