RENTON A year ago, it was not Michael Bennett but Jeremy Lane sitting during a national anthem before a Seahawks preseason game to protest treatment of minorities in this country.
Lane, Seattle’s veteran cornerback and nickel back, is quieter and far, FAR less outspoken than Bennett. When cameras and recorders and reporters swarmed him inside the small locker room at the Oakland Coliseum last August after he sat during the anthem before the Seahawks’ 2016 preseason finale at Oakland, he seemed almost overwhelmed with the attention. He said then, and on Tuesday, that all he wanted to do was support Colin Kaepernick in the now-former 49ers quarterback’s far more widely-known -- and controversial -- protest of kneeling during anthems that began weeks before Lane sat.