Gay NFL Players List: Rumored, Confirmed Gay Amerin Footballers

Contents:

• KORLL STEWART’S STORY IS WHY WE’VE AVOID SPREADG GAY ATHLETE MORS
• FORMER NFL QUARTERBACK OPENS UP ABOUT RUMORS HE WAS GAY
• THE 61 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS, 13 OWNERS AND 9 HEAD ACH SUPPORT GAY AND BI ATHLET
• TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
• SPORTS STARS WHO BATTLED GAY RUMORS
• PACKERS QB AARON RODGERS ADDRS MOR THAT HE'S GAY
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
• THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
• THE BIG PROBLEMS WH THE NFL'S BIG GAY PLAYER RUMOR
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: SPORTS IS SO GAYGAY NFL PLAYERS: OUT OR RUMORED GAY AMERIN FOOTBALL JOCKS
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• CARL NASSIB BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER TO PLAY NFL GAME
• CARL NASSIB OUT AS 1ST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER
• NASSIB IS NOT FIRST GAY NFL PLAYER BY A E
• CARL NASSIB IS THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO COME OUT AS GAY
• CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, ULD BE TURNG POT FOR MALE SPORTS

KORLL STEWART’S STORY IS WHY WE’VE AVOID SPREADG GAY ATHLETE MORS

It was ls than a month after we lnched the se that Stewart publicly addrsed mors that he was gay, and that he had talked about wh his Ptsburgh Steelers teammat.

Korll Stewart’s Players Tribune piece last week, tailg the personal and profsnal issu created by havg “gay” mors out there, explas why. Like I said, we have addrsed a handful of gay-athlete mors the past, almost each time g the mors to expla why they are problematic.

The one athlete we’ve handled slightly differently — Troy Aikman — we’ve done so part bee he’s actually ma problematic ments about beg gay, sayg ’s “a liftyle people choose. Stewart, who is not gay, said he felt attacked by the cy of Ptsburgh for the mor, which he said the Steelers found was started by an dividual lol police officer. Perkz/@rlnassib/@rkrelentls)When Kansas State offensive tackle and NFL hopeful Stt Frantz me out to the natn as gay, he shared that his teammat (to whom he'd e out earlier) had warmly received the news, a sign the most alpha of locker rooms may fally be ready for equaly.

FORMER NFL QUARTERBACK OPENS UP ABOUT RUMORS HE WAS GAY

Roy "Sugar Bear" Simmons, an offensive leman for the New York Giants and Washgton Redsks, beme the send NFL player ever to publicly reveal he was gay. So Coach Vce Lombardi knew McDonald was gay when he took over learship of the team 1969, but ma clear there would be no discrimatn his locker room, those close to the legend say.

Cornerback Wa Davis, who played preason wh the Tennsee Tans, Seattle Seahawks and Washgton Redsks and spent two seasons wh NFL Europe teams Berl Thunr and Barcelona Dragons, me out as gay 2012, nearly a after his retirement. He would later nfirm his sexualy on CNN and s down wh ESPN to discs the challeng of growg up gay Jamai and playg football while closeted.

He later cled to sign wh the Tennsee Tans and Dallas Cowboys before g out as gay at 24, he told Philalphia Magaze revealed to the magaze that he'd dated a male cheerlear at Purdue who had threatened to out him then. The Bachelor star and former football player (who was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted ee agent and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Rairs and the Philalphia Eagl) me out as gay April of 2021, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know.

THE 61 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS, 13 OWNERS AND 9 HEAD ACH SUPPORT GAY AND BI ATHLET

The Rairs leman ma NFL history durg Pri Month 2021 when he me out as gay a heartfelt Instagram post, beg the first active NFL player to e out as member of the LGBTQ+ muny. The Hampton Universy player ma history October of 2022 when he me out as gay an Instagram Story post, beg the first out gay football player at a Historilly Black College or Universy.

"In the 101-year history of Amerin football's NFL, no openly gay or bisexual athlete has ever featured a regular-season game. ' I know now that you don't turn gay, " he 6ft 5 footballer said any uncertaty he had about his own sexualy was put on hold when he was drafted by the Cowboys add: "The NFL lls and I get that ll om the Cowboys, and I thought: 'Well, if I was turng gay, I need to stop now. '"Wh no openly gay players the league, Rsell said he wasn't ready at the time to be the first bee of the uncertaty of what uld transpire.

TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY

"'There's so much misogyny, which I believe is the root of homophobia' Ryan Rsell spoke at the annual Human Rights Campaign Natnal Dner 2019Rsell believ tacklg homophobia is a battle that n be won. Rsell said he if don't bee the first openly gay or bisexual player to feature the NFL, the first to do so uld be someone who is already out when drafted to the league.

Michael Sam, who me out as gay while llege 2014 before he was drafted by the St Louis Rams, was close to beg the Sam only featured pre-season or practice squad gam for both the Rams and Dallas Cowboys.

SPORTS STARS WHO BATTLED GAY RUMORS

“The silent majory of sports legends have yet to speak out favor of LGBTQ+ sports, and I’m sure is not due to homophobia but a lack of knowledge and fear, ” said Rsell, who is also the thor of his upg memoir, The Yards Between Us. Below we’ve listed current NFL players, team owners and head ach who have — wh their actns and/or words — monstrated support for the LGBT muny, gay athlet, fans and anyone else between.

All of this is addn to Roger Gooll — the NFL missner and the most powerful person Amerin sports — who has for 10 years talked publicly many tim about his support for the LGBT muny, cludg his gay brother.

PACKERS QB AARON RODGERS ADDRS MOR THAT HE'S GAY

There are also a number of NFL owners and head ach who have publicly exprsed support for gay athlet and the LGBT muny. Note that other players, ach and owners shared generic msag about cludg anyone who n help their team, but their msage didn’t que rg to as “support” for the LGBT muny or gay teammat.

The purpose of this list is to go a b more pth about some of the mors that are surroundg the players, not to nvce the rear that the athlet are gay. In fact, as society is now much more open to people no matter their orientatn, we have seen a ton more athlet, both active and retired, e out and adm that they are homosexuals, and 's absolutely a great thg.

This list will look at some of the most high profile exampl of pro athlet who have had mors about beg gay surroundg them, but aga, none of those are nfirmed and even if they were nfirmed, they would be somethg to celebrate.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

His ex-wife has acced him of beg gay and that Dunn’s lover om llege actually lived wh them for the first few years of their marriage. Qutns about Aikman's sexual orientatn have been around for s and the mor was started by Skip Bayls, when, his book, he stated that Troy Aikman might be gay. NFL hopeful Michael Sam me out as gay to his Universy of Missouri teammat 2013, then to ESPN as an "openly proud gay man" jt before the NFL draft 2014, makg him the first openly gay man to be drafted by an NFL team.

THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE

In April 2013, 7-foot NBA center Jason Colls me out of the closet, makg him the first openly gay profsnal athlete to pete the four major sports leagu.

A ee agent at the time, Colls wrote Sports Illtrated, "I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playg a major Amerin team sport...

THE BIG PROBLEMS WH THE NFL'S BIG GAY PLAYER RUMOR

In November 2014, Colls announced his retirement, wrg Sports Illtrated, "It feels wonrful to have been part of the ton for sports and for gay rights, and to have been embraced by the public, the ach, the players, the league and history.

An off-duty Dallas police officer who traveled wh the Cowboys and worked secury at their hotels first told me that 'the word on the street' was that Troy Aikman was gay. Dpe fatherg children wh at least two different women, NFL player Braylon Edwards was mored to be gay after fellow player Will Demps said an terview that Edwards had asked him about molg and actg opportuni.

Olympic sprter Carl Lewis was emed the greatt athlete of all time at his peak the 1980s, but that me crashg down when gay mors began to swirl around him. Though married to a man at the time, tennis legend Billie Jean Kg was plagued wh gay mors for years before g out as a lbian.

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If you speak wh gays, bisexuals, lbians and transgenrs, you will fd a lot of homophobia bee of the way we all grew up. People believe Te'o was tfished to the whole thg while others believed he may be gay and was merely g the Kekua story as a way of hidg his relatnship wh Tuiasosopo.

Grer got an endorsement al wh Nike after she me out, markg the first time the pany had announced a partnership wh an openly gay athlete.

Rodgers has flat out nied beg homosexual, but his former roommate has been persistent sayg they were more than iends. He is married to a mol and actrs Alicia Rickter they've been married sce 2005 so the mors of him beg gay are probably false. He was talkg about fashn week and said "It was this one thg durg fashn week: I had my legs crossed, and they lled me gay, I've got my legs crossed, I'm chill', I'm gettg my grown man on at the event.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

Kerry Rhos, former NFL safety has had to e out several tim and ny that he is gay, but the mors don't seem to go away. Dpe Outsports chroniclg lerally dozens of piec of evince to the ntrary, there’s a ntued belief amongst some that NFL players would overwhelmgly reject a gay player if he me out.

So we set out to figure out how many current NFL players have already played on the same team wh an out gay teammate. The 39 current NFL players have played wh at least five gay or bisexual men who were out to their team while they were on the same team.

CARL NASSIB BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER TO PLAY NFL GAME

At least six of the players on the Cardals’ 2020 roster — about 10% of the team, — has already had a gay teammate they knew of. Wh that experience, solid veteran learship, a ach Kliff Kgsbury who has ld gay football player Stt Frantz, and a ont office that has monstrated an embrace of LGBTQ people, is easy to make the se that an out gay player wh the Cardals would be weled. The are the current NFL players to have played wh an out gay or bi man on their team (wh that team and their current team listed):.

If you thk I’ve missed a current NFL player who’s played wh an out gay or bi teammate, be sure to leave the rmatn the ments below. Yterday a mor about four gay NFL athlet g out of the closet together seemed to ph the gay rights sports bate to the precipice.

A Friday mor about four gay NFL athlet g out of the closet at the same time seemed to ph the gay-rights--sports bate to the precipice. Except that mor was more than a ltle unte, and now gay-rights--sports advot are more than a ltle Baltimore Ravens lebacker Brendon Ayanbajo is both the mor's source and s bunker.

CARL NASSIB OUT AS 1ST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER

And an even bigger jump om the mor before that om Mike Flor of NBC that NFL executiv wanted to know if Manti Te'o was gay.

On CNN's Anrson Cooper 360 Friday night, he told the news anchor the group wasn't really nsirg g out together: No, actually, what is is, is there are anizatns I'm ntact wh, and there are dividuals I'm ntact wh and llectively we know of some gay players.

NASSIB IS NOT FIRST GAY NFL PLAYER BY A E

There might be four NFL players who are gay and still the closet, and one player might be batg g out, but Ayanbajo thks would be a great ia for them to e out as a team. Some people the gay rights muny are not pleased wh this people nng OutSports have been verg the gay athlete beat for years. He don't have an NFL team to play for anymore, but he'll ntue his fight lobbyg the Supreme Court to make a statement on gay article is om the archive of our partner The Wire.

CARL NASSIB IS THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO COME OUT AS GAY

He revealed that he had a relatnship wh fellow footballer Jerry currently serv as a board member the Gay and Lbian Athletics Foundatn and is an ambassador for the Feratn of Gay Gam. He wrote an tobgraphy, Alone In The Trench: My Life As A Gay Man In The NFL, which was published 2006 and has worked wh the NFL to fight homophobia the Frankl Simmons: Roy is an offensive leman who played for both the New York Giants and the Washgton Redsks. He me out as a gay man when he guted at the Phil Donahue Show footballers who are mored to belong to our gay NFL players list clu the followg:Kwame Harris.

The two ma the news recently after Kwame allegedly beat his om Yahoo Sports:The NFL has no current players and startlgly few ex-players who are known to be gay, but appears ex-49ers and Rairs offensive tackle Kwame Harris, a former first-round pick, has voluntarily been add to the list as a rult of the legal fallout om a fight at a rtrant. Like their ternatnal footballer unterparts, the men of Amerin football sometim fd themselv very gay suatns — like the pic below — which leav no choice but to shout, “Hey, Amerin football is so gay! They have tight ends, and wi receivers, and wedge bters which are the gayt terms for a player posn team sports ever.

If this is te, then Amerin football players are gayer than the general populatn only 10% of whom are nsired to be gay. * To be fair, the study which stated that 30% of Amerin footballers are gay is very very flawed and, although was ed published a reputable journal, don’t pass the smell tt at NFL Players: Rumored or Confirmed Gay Amerin Football Jocks.

CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, ULD BE TURNG POT FOR MALE SPORTS

FirstThe Rairs fensive leman me out a statement posted to his Instagram acunt on Monday, beg the first active player the league to publicly intify as gay. I actually hope that like one day vios like this and the whole g-out procs are jt not necsary, but until then I’m gog to do my bt and my part to cultivate a culture that’s acceptg, that’s passnate, ” before addg that he would donate $100, 000 to The Trevor Project, a nonprof group that foc on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng youth.

“Sports are, many ways, one of the last bastns of a place where homophobia n thrive, ” said Cathy Renna, a spokwoman for the Natnal L.

”Michael Sam, an all-Amerin fensive leman at Missouri, had been viewed as the most likely to acquire that distctn when he announced he is gay before he beg chosen by the Rams the seventh round of the 2014 N. The Dallas Cowboys signed Sam to their practice squad, but he never played a regular season Otero/Associated PrsSam’s draft stat was seen as a barometer of whether the climate of men’s pro sports was beg more acceptg of gay athlet, particularly bee Febary 2014 the N. Had jt bee the first of the four tradnal major Amerin men’s sports leagu to have an openly gay active player when Jason Colls joed the Sam left the N.