Colin Kaepernick made waves when he protested police brutality and racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem as a member of the San Francisco 49ers, but retired tight end Martellus Bennett believes the conversation would have been different if a white quarterback was the one to do it.
"If [white quarterbacks] were to take a knee with Kaepernick, that conversation would totally change," Bennett said during a Thursday discussion hosted by The Athletic (h/t Tom Schad of USA Today). "If Tom Brady took a knee, white America would be like, 'Oh my God!