A little over a week ago, the NFL made quite a splash with Roger Goodell issuing a public statement that the league had gotten things wrong when it came to the protests of police brutality several years ago. In the statement Goodell admitted that the league had erred in not listening to NFL players earlier when players such as Colin Kaepernick peacefully protested against police brutality during the national anthem by taking a knee.
Kaepernick and former San Francisco 49ers teammate Eric Reid are, of course, the names most widely associated with the protests, though there were certainly others.