NFL to Investigate Falcons Assistant Who Asked Eli Apple If He ‘Liked Men’

March 4, 2016   ·   Tim Daniels   ·   Jump to comments

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed Friday that the league will investigate an Atlanta Falcons assistant coach after he asked draft prospect Eli Apple if he "liked men" at the NFL Scouting Combine last week.  
Nate Davis of USA Today passed along comments from McCarthy after Falcons head coach Dan Quinn said in a statement he was "really disappointed" in the coach who asked the question.
"This is disappointing and clearly inappropriate as the Falcons acknowledged," McCarthy said. "We will look into it."
The situation came to light during Apple's interview with Comcast SportsNet on Friday. He was asked about some of the different questions that were posed during combine interviews and provided the Falcons' inquiry as an example:
The Falcons coach, one of the coaches, was like, "So do you like men?" It was like the first thing he asked me. It was weird. I was just like, "no." He was like, "if you're going to come to Atlanta, sometimes that'...

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