The Jets had two veteran player representatives -- inside linebacker Demario Davis and left tackle Kelvin Beachum -- at the closed-doors meeting earlier this month between players and NFL owners, where the league-wide national anthem protests were discussed.
And Davis had a prominent voice in that room, according to an excellent ESPN The Magazine story written by Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr.
Here are a couple Davis-related passages from that story (which is worth checking out):
The players said that they felt the owners -- as a collective more than the small group in the room -- were being duplicitous; they were empathetic to their concerns behind closed doors but not publicly.